picoChip
Based: Bath, UK
Founded: 2000
www.picochip.com
Why It's Fierce: PicoChip is one of the
most influential wireless companies you have never
heard of. That's because the company's flexible chip
technology powers a number of next-generation
wireless solutions quietly from behind the scenes.
The company's technology can be used in a number of
next-generation wireless systems, including WCDMA
and WiMax. The company's main product, the picoArray,
is an array of fully-programmable processing
elements which is optimized for high-performance
signal processing. Simply put, this company's
product can be cheaply and easily scaled for number
of base stations and other wireless network areas.
PicoChip has a strong partnership with Airspan.
While this has never been fully confirmed, Intel
representatives recently admitted in public that
they will use picoChip's technology in early forms
of its new WiMax solution, Rosedale. Rumors also
have it that the company's technology will soon find
its way into BT's new converged IP network.
What To Look For: Look for picoChip to
continue working behind the scenes in both the 3G
and WCDMA sectors.
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