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News Release from: picoChip Designs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 May 2006
Awards recognise wireless broadband
innovation
picoChip has been nominated as a double finalist at the Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards 2006.
picoChip has been nominated as a double finalist at the Wireless Broadband Innovation (WBI) Awards 2006 picoChip is in contention for both most innovative wireless broadband company and best WiMAX/wireless broadband product award categories
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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picoChip Designs has sampled its first device, the PC101, which delivers a massive computational power of 30GMACs per second.
This follows last week's announcement that it won Frost and Sullivan's prestigious 2006 Semiconductors Industry Innovation and Advancement of the Year Award.
The Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards are the hotly contested independent awards for users and service providers of wireless broadband worldwide.
The awards recognise leadership, innovation and excellence in wireless broadband development and deployment.
WBI received entries from more than 150 companies in 30 countries across the world.
picoChip's President and CEO, Guillaume d'Eyssautier, commented: "These are exciting times for picoChip".
"The WBI double finalist nominations, compounded by our recent Frost and Sullivan award win is a validation by the industry of picoChip leadership in the WiMAX market".
"We are proud to be participating with success at such prestigious events".
picoChip provides software defined radio solutions to the key challenges of cost, development time and flexibility for the next generation of wireless systems.
The company's multi-core processors deliver a world-beating price/performance combination.
Uniquely, the company also delivers complete, standard-compliant reference designs for UMTS (HSDPA, upgradeable to HSUPA) and WiMAX/WiBRO (both 802.16d and 802.16e, with support for AAS and MIMO).
WiMAX systems using picoChip are available from Airspan, Intel, Ericsson, Nortel, Marconi and a number of other manufacturers.
picoChip technology is also being used to develop other advanced wireless protocols such as EVDO, 802.20 and TD-SCDMA, and in 4G research.
The WBI Award categories cover excellence in service provision; in enterprise deployment by the end-user; in product development; and personal and corporate achievement.
An independent judging panel will select the winners, who will be announced on 17th May at the gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Cafe Royal, London, UK.
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