picoChip, Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards
Clever picoChip
News Release from:
picoChip Designs Limited
05/05/2006
picoChip has announced that it 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 follows last weekıs announcement that it won Frost & Sullivanıs prestigious 2006 Semiconductors Industry Innovation & 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 recognize leadership, innovation and excellence in wireless broadband development and deployment.
picoChip provides software defined radio solutions to the key challenges of cost, development time and flexibility for the next generation of wireless systems. The companyıs 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 May 17th at the gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Café Royal, London, UK. To learn more about WBI awards please visit: http://www.wbiaward.com/
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