picoChip named winner at inaugural Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Awards 2009

“Winning enabling technology at the inaugural Femtocell Industry Awards is an outstanding achievement and I would like to thank the whole picoChip team for contributing to this prestigious award,” said Nigel Toon, president and CEO at picoChip. “Receiving this accolade in the same week that Europe’s first femtocell network was announced makes it even more notable. We are proud to be driving the femtocell industry with our world class picoXcell femtocell silicon products.”

The winning devices, the picoChip PC302 and PC312 picoXcell baseband SoCs are cost-optimized system-on-chips, supporting the 3GPP's new femtocell standard. They embody five years of femtocell experience, comprehensive interoperability testing and numerous real-world deployments.

The judges were extremely impressed by the high quality and number of award submissions. In light of this the judging process was extremely difficult but picoChip stood out and was deserving of its award, said Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum. The femtocell industry is rapidly evolving as major advances are made in the technology, standards, services and applications - these awards recognize and reward this progress. Our congratulations to picoChip and to all those who participated.

“picoChip was the first to demonstrate femtocell technology back in 2004 and we are proud to have won this award. We are shipping volume into commercial applications, showing the confidence that femtocell manufacturers have, not just in our solutions, but in picoChip as a company. Our investment in approvals such as ISO9001 TickIT and supplier audits by some of the industry’s most stringent customers prove that we’ve got what it takes to succeed in a quality-conscious world as the femtocell market ramps into high volume”, added Toon.

As a mark of picoChip’s presence in the industry, of the 23 shortlisted award nominees (operators and manufacturers) no fewer than 16 use picoChip’s femtocell silicon.
picoChip is the industry’s leading supplier of femtocell silicon. The company’s picoXcell SoCs crystallize five years’ experience in the field; its picoArray programmable wireless processors are class-leading flexible, programmable solutions for any wireless standard, including GSM, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX and cdma2000.