“Silicon vendor Broadcom has put Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an FM radio on a single 65nm CMOS chip. The device should cut the cost – and power demands – of Wi-Fi enabled phone handsets, and hasten converged phone services,” Peter Judge reports for Techworld.
“Although Marvell announced Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on a chip last year, that was a larger chip using 90nm CMOS. Broadcom’s BMC4325 has got ahead of the game by using a smaller lower-power technology – and throwing in an FM receiver as well,” Judge reports.
Judge reports, “The smaller chip has power demands 40 percent less than competing chips, says Broadcom. But the implementations on the chip aren’t cut-down. The Wi-Fi system supports the 802.11a/b/g standards, and the Bluetooth uses the faster 2.0 plus standard with enhanced data rate (EDR), and will be upgradeable to Bluetooth version 2.1. Both take on significant processing, which cuts demands on the main phone processor, again increasing battery life.”
“Even the FM radio isn’t just a basic one – it support both US and European standards for radio data,” Judge reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TTzz” for the heads up.]