picoChip has announced that it has secured $27 million of new investment in fourth round funding. Highland Capital Partners led the financing round together with undisclosed key strategic investors. Existing investors include Atlas Venture, Pond Venture Partners, Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild, Intel and AT&T. The new money will fund future growth.

Cambridge Consultants has become the first authorized design centre for picoChip's multi-core digital signal processor (DSP), picoArray. picoArray devices incorporate arrays of DSP elements, delivering extremely high performance. This makes them ideal for the computationally-intensive tasks involved in advanced wireless signal processing, while also providing adaptability that can be employed to accommodate operational problems such as varying ch...

picoChip has won the Chip Design, Industry Innovation and Industry Choice Awards at the Best of WiMAX World Awards 2007, taking home 50% of the awards available. The awards recognize leaders in the development and deployment of WiMAX technologies.

picoChip has announced the next version of its industry-standard WiMAX basestation reference design, with a software upgrade to support Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 and MIMO. The new PC8532 WiMAX platform has its first public display at WiMAX World Europe this week (Booth Number 204). It is the only basestation reference design to support WiMAX Wave 2 and IO-MIMO, and scales from access point (femtocell) to sophisticated multi-sector carrier macrocells...

picoChip has announced the next version of its industry-standard WiMAX basestation reference design, with a software upgrade to support Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 and MIMO. The new PC8532 WiMAX platform has its first public display at WiMAX World Europe this week (Booth Number 204). It is the only basestation reference design to support WiMAX Wave 2 and IO-MIMO, and scales from access point (femtocell) to sophisticated multi-sector carrier macrocells...

picoChip today announced that Global Wireless Technologies (GWT) has developed a hardware reference design and software for CDMA2000 and EvDO femtocells and picocells running on the picoArrayTM processor. This gives picoChip’s customers solutions for all the major standards, WCDMA (HSDPA upgradeable to HSUPA), CDMA2000 and EvDO Rev A, as well as TD-SCDMA and WiMAX, all on a single software-defined hardware platform.

Axiom Wireless has announced its new “One Phone Service Enabler” product family. This complete system architecture includes the ACF-400 switch and two femtocells: the A-Pro2100 for WCDMA (HSPA) and the A-Pro3500 WiMAX. This is the first WiMAX femtocell, and the first femtocell architecture expressly designed to integrate different wireless standards, starting with these but adding more. With the One Phone Service Enabler, carriers will be ...

Tatara Systems and picoChip have announced a partnership to collaborate on and jointly market all-IP solutions for the femtocell market. The partnership will focus on developing a SIP/IMS-enabled femtocell reference design to ease the integration of femtocells into a mobile operator’s network thus enabling the significant advantages of an all-IP approach. The collaboration will include picoChip’s portfolio of products, including the PC8208 H...

picoChip has announced the appointment of Steve Laurenson to the newly-created post of VP Engineering. A 28-year veteran of the mobile communications and semiconductor industries, Laurenson will take on a customer-oriented role, ensuring that picoChip continues to develop and support the technologies and products required by the wireless market.

picoChip has announced the industry’s first HSUPA-femtocell reference design. Femtocells or 3G access points allow carriers to compete with VoWiFi, improving coverage at home and improving service. The new PC8209 adds HSUPA to picoChip’s industry standard reference design, as used by Ubiquisys, ipAccess and Dekolink among others. For 3G data HSUPA adds faster uplink and reduces latency, especially important for wireless Web 2.0 application...

picoChip has significantly strengthened its advisory board with the appointment of Professor Wenbo Wang, Professor and Dean of School of Telecommunication Engineering at the Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT). One of the world’s leading authorities in the field of digital signal processing and wireless communications, Professor Wang joins existing members of the board Professor Simon Saunders and Professor David May.

Kineto Wireless, Inc., the key innovator and leading supplier of UMA technology, and picoChip today announced the companies are working to develop a UMA-enabled Femtocell reference design. The reference design, based on picoChip’s industry leading single-chip solutions and Kineto’s industry leading UMA client software will enable 3G femtocells to overcome network integration barriers to accelerate mass market adoption.

picoChip today announced that Willtek Communications, a leading supplier of test equipment for wireless manufacturers and networks, has added support for TD-SCDMA to its range of software-defined 3G cellular handset testers. This announcement further strengthens picoChip’s agreement with Willtek, the company’s first customer from 2003. As well as TD-SCDMA, Willtek’s testers based on picoChip programmable baseband technology already support...

picoChip has announced a significant expansion with the establishment of a new development centre in Beijing, China. The new operation complements the company’s existing development site in Bath, England. picoChip also has an engineering facility in Shenzhen and sales office in Shanghai as part of its commitment to the Chinese market.

picoChip has announced that it is participating more than any other company in the WiMAX Forum Plugfest this week. Of the 19 industry-leading companies who are working together to advance interoperability, picoChip reference designs are represented five times. The company is involved directly, with partner Wintegra, while Airspan, M/A-Com and CETECOM are all participating with products based on picoChip’s PHY.

ip.access ltd, a developer of in-building wireless picocell solutions today announced that they are using a custom version of picoChip’s multi-core DSP hardware and modem software in their femto3G Access Points for residential fixed-mobile convergence (FMC).

picoChip has announced that its WiMAX solution is part of M/A-COM’s recently announced 4.9 GHz VIDA broadband solution for Public Safety Grade Applications. This solution by M/A-COM, a business unit of Tyco Electronics, utilizes the standard WiMAX 802.16 protocol, to deliver integrated, public safety-grade wireless broadband video and data services for mission-critical applications.

picoChip has announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Korea Telecom (KT) to develop WiBro / WiMAX access points, sometimes called Femtocells or Home-Basestations. KT is a leader in wireless technology and has launched commercial WiBro service. picoChip’s multi-core DSP is the industry standard architecture for WiMAX infrastructure, and is also being widely used for WCDMA Femtocells.

picoChip has announced that it has signed a development partnership agreement with China GrenTech. Based on picoChip WiMAX software-upgradeable technology, China GrenTech will develop radio frequency solutions. The two companies will work together in the joint development of complete WiMAX solutions targeted at the wideband wireless access market.

picoChip announced today that it has been named in FierceWiFi’s annual Fierce 15 list, honoring picoChip for its innovation in the wireless market. FierceWiFi is an internationally recognized email newsletter published by FierceMarkets (www.fiercemarkets.com), designed to provide executives with up-to-date information on the wireless broadband marketplace, from WiFi to WiMAX and beyond. picoChip’s multi-core DSP has established it as the lea...