picoChip has announced that Redline Communications, a leading provider of standards-based WiMAX access and broadband wireless infrastructure products, has selected picoChip’s PC8532 modem to power its next generation RedMAX 4C Mobile WiMAX basestations. picoChip’s industry leading, complete and robust reference designs are the market’s only solutions to deliver true IO-MIMO with uplink CSM – a critical feature of mobile WiMAX.

picoChip has announced new high-performance picoArray devices. The PC202-10, PC203-10 and PC205-10 multi-core DSPs deliver processing power of up to 262GIPS and 35GMACS. These enhanced members of the industry-leading PC20x series allow designers to deliver advanced features and use fewer devices in highly demanding applications such as advanced wireless infrastructure products.

picoChip has launched the PC3xx family, a new range of system-on-chip baseband processors specifically targeted at the fast-growing femtocell market. These second-generation devices incorporate picoChip’s field-proven modem software in a highly integrated form, enabling femtocell manufacturers to substantially reduce bill-of-materials while increasing performance. This cost reduction is a critical enabler for high-volume consumer femtocell de...

picoChip has launched the PC3xx family, a new range of system-on-chip baseband processors specifically targeted at the fast-growing femtocell market. These second-generation devices incorporate picoChip’s field-proven modem software in a highly integrated form, enabling femtocell manufacturers to substantially reduce bill-of-materials while increasing performance. This cost reduction is a critical enabler for high-volume consumer femtocell de...

picoChip today announced the availability of the industry’s first LTE femtocell and picocell reference designs, the PC8608 Home eNodeB and PC8618 eNodeB respectively. Both PC86xx family small-cell LTE reference designs build on picoChip’s successes as the leader in femtocells. Both products can be combined with picoChip’s HSPA products and run on the same common hardware platform as the company’s industry-standard WiMAX reference design...

picoChip today announced the availability of the industry’s first LTE femtocell and picocell reference designs, the PC8608 Home eNodeB and PC8618 eNodeB respectively. Both PC86xx family small-cell LTE reference designs build on picoChip’s successes as the leader in femtocells. Both products can be combined with picoChip’s HSPA products and run on the same common hardware platform as the company’s industry-standard WiMAX reference design...

picoChip as announced that the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA – formerly the FSA – Fables Semiconductor Association) has appointed Guillaume d’Eyssautier, its President and CEO, to the GSA Board of Directors. In addition to his new role, Mr. d′Eyssautier will continue to serve on GSA’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Leadership Council (EMEA).

Continuous Computing, global provider of integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy Next Generation Networks (NGN), and picoChip, the leading supplier of femtocell silicon, have announced that they are partnering to bring to market an integrated High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) femtocell software reference design. Through a level of collaboration not yet seen in the marketplace, the joint femtocel...

picoChip has announced that it is collaborating with mimoOn to deliver the industry’s first complete LTE (Long Term Evolution) basestation reference design. The new PC86xx family of LTE reference designs cover the full range of eNode Bs from femtocells to multi-sector macrocells and is supported on the same common hardware platforms as picoChip’s WiMAX products. The system and its MIMO capabilities will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congr...

picoChip has announced the PC8808 TD-SCDMA femtocell reference design, the first to support this standard. Femtocells (or 3G access points) are low-cost basestations optimized for deployment inside buildings to improve coverage and data rates. The new design was developed in China at picoChip’s Beijing design center. TD-SCDMA is the third major 3G standard, and is expected to launch in the Olympic cities this summer.

picoChip and Continuous Computing are inviting customers, press, and analysts to attend a Light Reading webinar, Building Converged Femtocell Devices, delivered by Rupert Baines (VP marketing, picoChip) and Manish Singh (VP field engineering, Continuous Computing). The date is Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 p.m. GMT.

picoChip has announced that it has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring 100 Global Award. The awards span all areas of technology including biosciences, communications, computing and software; picoChip was one of only ten semiconductor winners.

Guillaume d'Eyssautier, president and CEO, picoChip has been appointed to the newly named GSA EMEA Leadership Council. The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) recently renamed from Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) and expanded its leadership council for Europe to be the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Leadership Council, which reflects the multiple countries within EMEA that are playing a more significant and growing role within the...

picoChip has announced the PC6532 Wave 2 femtocell, the next version of its industry-standard WiMAX basestation reference design. Femtocell access points are optimized for deployment inside buildings to improve coverage and data rates. The new PC6532 WiMAX femtocell is the industry’s only single-chip (PHY + MAC) reference design to support WiMAX Wave 2 and full IO-MIMO in both downlink and uplink.

picoChip announced today that Xinwei Telecom Technology has selected the PC203 as the baseband processor in the latest revision of its McWiLL basestation design. McWiLL (Multi-carrier Wireless Information Local Loop) is a Chinese-developed mobile broadband wireless access standard, optimized for extremely wide area coverage, which is being deployed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

picoChip announced today that it has added Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (L&T Infotech) as a partner design centre for its picoArray™ multi-core DSP. Based in Mumbai, and part of the $5bn Larsen & Toubro Limited Corporation, L&T Infotech offers its customers a comprehensive product development service for communications equipment based on the picoArray. The relationship starts with WiMAX, where the two companies are cooperating on customiz...

New results published by Berkeley Design Technology (BDTI) reveal that picoChip’s PC102 multicore signal processing device has a 40-fold advantage in price-performance over traditional DSP processors solutions in key communications benchmarks, and 8-times higher absolute performance.

picoChip today announced that Samsung has made a strategic investment in the company. The amount of the investment is undisclosed, and forms part of the $27 million of new investment D-round announced in July by picoChip which was led Highland Capital Partners. The round has brought the total company funding to $70.5 million, placing picoChip in an unrivalled position to build upon the success it has already achieved in the wireless infrastuctu...

picoChip announced today that it has added Systems4Silicon as an approved design center for its picoArrayTM multi-core DSP. Systems4Silicon has a highly experienced team, capable of supporting customers with PHY, MIMO, PA linearization and RF design issues for advanced air interfaces applications, and already has considerable real-world experience with picoChip technology.

picoChip announced today that it has joined the Femto Forum, which will support and promote femtocell deployment worldwide. The Forum brings together the foremost femtocell equipment vendors with the major global mobile operators assessing the technology. The Forum will promote the uptake of femtocell technologies through open standards, market education and ecosystem development. The initial focus will be on pre-competitive standards-focused ...