Picochip, the industry’s leading supplier of femtocell technology and Argela, a leading provider of telecom solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced that Argela has selected Picochip as the core technology supplier for its femtocell developments. Based in Istanbul and Silicon Valley, Argela will use Picochip’s femtocell technology in products for its customers around the world. The company is in the process of developing a li...

Picochip has announced significant expansion in its worldwide operations. The company has moved to a new headquarters and engineering center in its home city of Bath, opened an advanced test laboratory in Cambridge, UK, and announced plans to double the size of its development centre in Beijing, China. Picochip’s picoXcell(TM) products have become the de facto industry standard for 3G femtocells, with 80 per cent market share and deployment in ...

picoChip has today announced that its technology has been selected by South Korean wireless equipment vendor Contela to supply SK Telecom (SKT) for a data-only femtocell deployment called Data Femto. The SKT Data Femto service is optimized to offload traffic and solve congestion issues. Contela has been selected by SKT as the sole vendor for the service which is to be launched this year. The SKT Data Femto service will be South Korea's first comm...

Today at 4G World in Chicago, picoChip unveiled the next step in its roadmap for customers working on LTE small cell systems. The PC500 is a highly integrated and cost effective baseband processor that is code-compatible with the company’s award-winning PC960x µTCA-based development system.

picoChip today announced that it is the first company to support the newly announced Femto Forum LTE application programming interfaces (APIs). The new APIs help developers of LTE femtocells integrate subsystems from different suppliers reducing integration cost and time, and accelerating development of femtocells and other ‘small cell’ basestations which are critically important for LTE network deployment.

picoChip, the leading supplier of semiconductors and software for femtocells, has collaborated with Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology product design and development firm, to enhance its PC960x LTE development platform. The enhancements deliver further optimisations to the PC960x platform for 'small cell' basestation architectures. picoChip has been an active contributor to the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) on the deployment ...

picoChip today unveiled the PC333, the first chip specifically designed to extend the femtocell into the realm of public access infrastructure such as metro femto, rural femto and strand-mounted systems. The PC333 System-on-Chip (SoC) device is the first femtocell chip to support 32 channels (scalable to 64) for simultaneous voice and HSPA+ data, the first to support MIMO, the first to support soft-handover and the first to conform to the Local A...

The market for eBooks, tablets, smartphones and other mobile consumer products is exploding. As a result data traffic continues to increase exponentially which has created a number of infrastructure support challenges for operators.

picoChip today launched the PC7300, a complete femtocell hardware reference design that combines the industry’s lowest system costs and power consumption with the fastest possible time to market. Based on the field-proven PC3xx picoXcell family of femtocell devices, the PC7300 cuts bill of materials (BoM) costs to under $50 and requires less than 5W total power, making it the only femtocell solution on the market today capable of being integrat...

Roke Manor Research has developed the world’s first 3G Wide Area Coverage Femtocell capability. Using picoChip’s technology as the development platform, Roke’s reference design has a 40km range which delivers more than 40,000 times the area covered of most other femtocells. It is also the first to support full mobility at speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour, allowing mobile users to travel while connected to the 3G base stations.

Roke Manor Research has developed the world’s first 3G Wide Area Coverage Femtocell capability. Using picoChip’s technology as the development platform, Roke’s reference design has a 40km range which delivers more than 40,000 times the area covered of most other femtocells. It is also the first to support full mobility at speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour, allowing mobile users to travel while connected to the 3G base stations.

picoChip will display its leadership in the femtocell and 4G markets at Femtocells World Summit this week, with live demonstrations of its award-winning PC960x LTE small cell solution, a focus on innovative HSPA+ femtocell technology and a product showcase featuring a dozen commercial femtocells. Also at the Summit, picoChip’s CEO Nigel Toon will share his vision of the ubiquitous role that small cells will play in the fast-changing world of wi...

picoChip today announced that it has passed the milestone of one million chips sold and is on track to achieve over 50% quarter-on-quarter sequential revenue growth this calendar quarter. To support expansion plans and strengthen the company’s balance sheet during this period of exceptional growth the company has secured $20m of additional equity funding.

picoChip has enhanced its picoXcell platform to address the need to support large numbers of smartphones on a femtocell. New smartSignaling features within the company’s PC3x3 devices now enable up to 400 ‘always on’ users on a femtocell with additional benefits such as longer handset battery life.

picoChip’s PC960x product received the Best Enabling Product/Technology Award at the Informa LTE Awards during LTE World Summit in Amsterdam this week. The PC960x is the industry’s first reference design for an LTE “small cell” basestation or femtocell. The PC960x is a significant step forward as a technology enabler - allowing carriers to build their LTE networks in a faster and more cost-effective way than traditional approaches.

IntelliNet Technologies, a leading provider of data offload solutions, and picoChip, the leading provider of silicon devices for femtocells, announced today that it has recently completed interoperability testing between IntelliNet’s Femtocell Gateway and femtocell access points based on picoChip’s industry-standard picoXcell platform. The testing validates products against the newly adopted 3GPP standardized Iu-h interface, which allows mobi...

picoChip announces that it has participated in the world’s first femtocell plugfest. The event, run by the Femto Forum and in cooperation with ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute), featured over 20 companies across the whole femtocell ecosystem from network equipment to access point vendors, including both hardware and software companies.

Femtocells were a hot topic at last week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, with picoChip leading the field as it hit the headlines with six major product, customer and partner announcements. In addition to unveiling new HSPA+ chips and software, an LTE development partnership, the joint win of Sagemcom as a customer with Ikanos, and use of the picoXcell platform by Airhop for its eSON technology, the company also disclosed six new des...

picoChip has announced that Alpha Networks, Argela, Askey, C&S Micro, Contela and Zyxel are the latest customers to use picoChip’s PC302 picoXcell(TM) SoC in HSPA+ femtocell designs. These six new customers bring the total number of manufacturers using the industry-leading picoXcell(TM) solution for femtocells to over 20. Previously disclosed customers include Alcatel Lucent, GWT, ipAccess, Sagem and Ubiquisys, A full range of picoXcell-based ...

Continuous Computing, picoChip and Cavium Networks today announced that they have collaborated to produce the world’s first complete Long Term Evolution (LTE) femtocell reference design. Available immediately, this solution helps accelerate time to market for product developers, femtocell access point manufacturers, network equipment vendors and operators. The reference design is the industry’s first to include the LTE modem (PHY), radio freq...