Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA): Who: GSA – Global Semiconductor Alliance
What: The Semiconductor Leaders Forum Taiwan brings together distinguished leaders to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the semiconductor industry. In its sixth year, the event has put together a dynamic speaker line up that will focus on topics relating to [...]

GSD4e GPS Location Processor with Built-in CPU Ensures Quick Time to Market for Broad Range of Location-Aware Consumer Devices
LOCATION 2.0 SUMMIT, SAN DIEGO, Calif., October 8, 2009 – CSR plc. a leading provider of GPS-powered location platforms, today introduced the SiRFstarIV™ GSD4e GPS location processor, the newest member of the recently launched SiRFstarIV architecture, an [...]

Software development platform for high-performance, feature-rich Bluetooth single-chip applications on CSR BlueCoreTM devices, delivers lowest cost products in the fastest time-to-market
Cambridge Consultants has released the latest version of its embedded Bluetooth application development toolkit, xIDE for Interface ExpressTM, which enables developers to create sophisticated multi-profile Bluetooth 2.1 qualified products and accessories. xIDE [...]

CSR today announced full availability of development kits for its highly successful BlueTunes ROM solution for low cost, high-performance stereo Bluetooth headsets. The BTN-003-1A development kit makes BlueTunes ROM the quickest and most cost-effective solution for designing stereo headsets and wireless speakers. CSR’s BlueTunes ROM and development kits are shipping now.
CSR’s BlueTunes ROM development [...]

SIG awards BRTF recognition to Bluetooth industry leader
CSR (LSE:CSR) today announced that it has achieved recognition by the Bluetooth SIG as a Bluetooth Recognised Test Facility (BRTF). CSR’s test facilities are regarded as having developed to the point where it can entirely test its own firmware, rather than using an external testing house. BRTF [...]

Partnership makes CSR Wi-Fi ICs location-aware
CSR, a leading global provider of wireless technologies, and Skyhook Wireless, maker of the Wi-Fi Positioning System and XPS 2.0, the hybrid positioning system, today announced a partnership that will bring advanced location capabilities to CSR’s Wi-Fi silicon. Skyhook Wireless’ core technology, the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), is software that [...]

A new study from ABI Research forecasts that close to 2.4 billion units of Bluetooth-enabled equipment are expect to ship worldwide in 2013. Of these, more than half will be cellular handsets; adding the accompanying headsets brings that figure to more than 75% of the total market. Notebook computers and portable music devices will run [...]

Two companies join with CSR to deliver a complete environment for development and conformance testing of hybrid positioning system
CSR today announced that Agilent Technologies and Spirent Communications are to join CSR and Motorola in the EGPS Forum, the open industry forum for evaluating and fostering enhanced Global Positioning System (EGPS) technologies. Working with CSR, [...]

CSR today announced that its UniFi silicon provides Wi-Fi functionality in the new WLAN-Ethernet Combo Module from WhizNets. The module will provide OEMs with a quick and simple way to integrate a wide range of wired and wireless connectivity options in industrial control and monitoring devices, allowing for more time to concentrate on developing the [...]

“High Speed Bluetooth,” a new combination of Wi-Fi (802.11) and Bluetooth technologies, is certain to benefit users who transfer large multimedia files between wireless devices such as cellular handsets, according to a new Research Brief from ABI Research.
“Bluetooth penetration in cellular handsets is at an all-time high,” says senior analyst Douglas McEuen. “But it [...]