Frost & Sullivan’s Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award is bestowed each year upon a company that has proven to be a leader in the industry and who, through its pioneering technology, sound business strategy, superior customer relations and ongoing educational efforts, has been consistently successful in moving the state-of-the-industry forward. This award recognition is the result of extensive market analysis of the world wireless market conducted by Frost & Sullivan’s industry analysts.
picoChip provides software defined radio solutions to the key challenges of cost, development time and flexibility for the next generation of wireless systems. The company’s multi-core processors deliver a world-beating price/performance combination. Uniquely, the company also delivers complete, standard-compliant reference designs for UMTS (HSDPA, upgradeable to HSUPA) and WiMAX/WiBRO (both 802.16d and 802.16e, with support for AAS and MIMO). WiMAX systems using picoChip are available from Airspan, Intel, Ericsson, Nortel, Marconi and a number of other manufacturers. picoChip technology is also being used to develop other advanced wireless protocols such as EVDO, 802.20 and TD-SCDMA, and in 4G research.