23 February 2010 - Femtocells one of biggest themes at MWC 2010 - picoChip extends market leadership
Femtocells were a hot topic at last week's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, with picoChip leading the field as it hit the headlines with six major product, customer and partner announcements. In addition to unveiling new HSPA+ chips and software, an LTE development partnership, the joint win of Sagemcom as a customer with Ikanos, and use of the picoXcell platform by Airhop for its eSON technology, the company also disclosed six new design-ins for HSPA+ femtocells.
26 February 2010 - Third Annual SPIFFY Award Winners Announced Global Telecom Service Providers Award Telecom Startups for Innovation and Impact
The Service Provider members of the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley awarded seven young telecom companies for their innovation, execution, management, and technologies at the annual SPIFFY Awards today in Palo Alto, California.
The Prodigy Award for the Most Successful SPiF Alumni is 4Home.
18 February 2010 - Femtocells in spotlight as new route to LTE; Rascal picoChip in hot pursuit
As expected, femtocells are one of the big themes of this year's Mobile World Congress. Operators like Vodafone UK, its joint venture SFR in France, Softbank in Japan and AT&T in the US are getting serious about their HSPA femto deployments in the home, and the industry is looking ahead to 'greater femtocells' - the ones that get beyond the living room into enterprises and the great outdoors.
Among a host of announcements, the leading silicon supplier for this segment, picoChip, was working hard to maintain its headstart as Qualcomm and others gear up to enter the market. It announced no fewer than six new customers, many coming from the Taiwanese ecosystem that is so vital to the mass adoption and price competitiveness of any emerging consumer product.
16 February 2010 - MWC 2010: picoChip adds to its femtocell solutions with latest SoCs and FAP software
picoChip has unveiled three new products that will allow customers to address the complete range of femtocell requirements via a single design platform. The introduction of two new picoXcell system-on-chip (SoC) devices and an integrated suite of HSPA+ femtocell access point (FAP) software creates the industry's most complete family of system-level femtocell solutions.
The new picoXcell SoCs deliver a number of industry 'firsts', including 3GPP Release 8 features such as 42Mbps downlink and 11Mbps uplink data rates.
16 February 2010 - Femtocell market to reach 49m units by 2014 — Informa
The number of Femtocell access points in the market is expected to grow to 49 million units by 2014, with an estimated 114 million users accessing services through mobile gateways, according to forecasts released on Tuesday by Informa Telecoms and Media.
"We have already shipped more semiconductors into femtocells this year than in the whole of 2009," said Rupert Baines, vice president of marketing at picoChip.
