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Spreadtrum selects CSR connectivity and Location for Smartphone reference designs

23.05.12

Transportable World Congress 2012, Barcelona, Spain -- 27 February 2012 -- CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announced that Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD), a Chinese fabless semiconductor companionship, has chosen CSR plc to provide wireless connectivity and site technologies for the Spreadtrum® SC8805G TD-SCDMA and SC6810 Border/WIFI low cost smartphone reference designs in structure to meet market demand in China and emerging markets for internet access, text transfer, and location. Specifically, CSR will provide its CSR6027&business; Wi-Fi solution, the SiRFstarIV™ location rostrum and Bluetooth for the reference designs. This is an extension to CSR’s relationship with Spreadtrum on act phone platforms on which CSR connectivity, location and Bluetooth technologies are already in capacity shipment. “Spreadtrum has been instrumental in serving Chinese manufacturers to capitalise on the smartphone revolt by offering low-cost, easy-to-integrate processors and specification designs that speed time-to-market for wireless communication products,” said Ahmet Alpdemir, postpositive major vice president of CSR's Mobile Business Dispose “We view this partnership as an excellent way to persist in to expand our market presence in China and other emerging markets for cost effectual smartphones.” Part of CSR’s UniFi® artifact line, CSR6027/6030 is a WAPI-qualified kind for the Chinese market of the CSR6026™ separate-chip solution delivering Wi-Fi 802.11n foundation for mobile embedded devices such as smartphones. The result provides manufacturers with low-cost, high engagement Wi-Fi support without compromising battery life or latitude. CSR6027 offers a PowerSave feature ensuring that transportable devices can achieve optimal battery living, and offers a very small system footprint and very low eBom (electronic bill of materials), enabling relaxing integration into mobile devices. SiRFstarIV is the retail-leading location platform, now deployed in hundreds of consumer products worldwide, gift high acquisition and tracking performance and correctness, low battery consumption, and active jammer eradication. These features will bring to consumers of SC8805G and SC6810-enabled devices the know-how to get a position fix with optimal speed, in varying conditions such as under thickheaded foliage or in urban canyons, with very low battery consumption. The SC8805G for TD-SCDMA and the SC6810 for Incisiveness/Wi-Fi both come with a hardware reference design and compliance-tested software, which will accelerate circumstance to market. Both are based on an ARM-9 600MHz processor which supports Android 2.2, 2D graphics, camera fortify up to 5MP, MPEG4 decoder and encoder, an HVGA touch partition LCD display and a range of connectivity options including Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth.

Source: Cambridge Wireless (press release)