CSR announced its new product — BlueCore BC7830 chipset — which at just 11mm2 in silicon size manages to incorporate GPS, Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, FM transmit and receive technologies. In addition, the chipset also packs support for the forthcoming Bluetooth low energy standard.
As a result, manufacturers will be able to add GPS functionality to their handsets for less than a dollar!
Commenting on the announcement, CSR’s Raj Gawera said: “Building radio chips on a CMOS process is one of the toughest technical challenges in the semiconductor industry. Due to the analogue circuitry, shrinking the size of those chips needs to go beyond the benefits that Moore’s law can provide. The only way to achieve radical size reduction, and therefore cost reduction, is to have deep innovation at an architectural level – this is what we have achieved through our Smart Integration strategy.”
In a word – impressive! Can’t wait to see $100 devices packing all the mambo-jumbos of today’s high-end devices. Now, if capacitive touchscreens would follow the example and start becoming more affordable, that would be something. 😉
[Via: slashphone]