Matthew Phillips, vice president of strategic marketing at CSR, said: "Chipsets oday cost around $30, we aim to produce devices for high volume applications by 2001 for $5. The Cambridge-based firm, the only company with a single-chip design...
Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), which currently supplies 49 per cent of the world's Bluetooth chips, still insists that it will be able to sell chips for less than $5. CSR quotes prices of $8 per chip for a million unit order - a slightly ridiculous...
Gelsinger told the audience on the final day of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, that Intel has worked out how to put "almost" every radio component of a wireless system such as bluetooth or 802.11 onto a single piece of standard CMOS...
Massimini added that Samsung is reducing the number of chips used in the design by combining capabilities into fewer chips, which helps to cut costs. A poor customer experience was the only aversion to the low end but with component costs coming...
Silicon vendors RF Micro Devices and SiliconWave have announced a single-chip Bluetooth 1.2 circuit design called UltimateBlue, which is designed to help hardware designers implement the new technology.
Given the recent collapse of some high-profile IT outsourcing deals, Olswang's Simon Briskman outlines the sourcing strategies available - and how to choose the right one for your business. Multi-sourcing in this manner allows transparency and...