| picoChip Designs Limited
| picoChip: fabless semiconductor company addressing next-generation wireless
Product: multi-core DSP optimized for demanding cellular & broadband wireless: WiMAX, 3G/HSDPA and beyond, MIMO, etc. Crucially, picoChip also supplies complete reference designs & protocol stacks
Volume production: major customers include Intel, Airspan, Ericsson, Nortel, Fujitsu, etc
The PC102 is the market leading DSP (200GIPS / 40GMACS,10x better than the leading conventional DSP), enabling software-defined radio. | |
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| ELEVATOR PITCH |  | |
picoChip dramatically improves the economics of wireless system manufacturers: reducing bill-of-materials by two-thirds, accelerating time-to-market and dramatically cutting development costs.
The combination of extremely high-performance/cost-effective processor with complete reference designs enables OEMs to compete far more effectively: to enter new markets easily and quickly; to develop new products and outperform competitors.
picoChip is the industry standard in WiMAX infrastructure.
| CONTACT INFORMATION | | |
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| Riverside Buildings
108 Walcot Street
Bath BA1 5BG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1225 469744
+44 (0)1225 469767
http://www.picochip.com
Rupert Baines
+44 7968 481 831 |
| COMPANY FACTS | | |
| Founded: | Sep 2000 | | Founders: | Peter Claydon | | CEO: | Nigel Toon | | CTO or technical lead: | Douglas Pulley | | CFO or finance director: | Iain Silvester | | Head of Sales: | Dave Hutton | | Head of Marketing: | Rupert Baines |
| | Stage: | | | Category: | Communications | | Sector: | Wireless hardware | | Employees: | | | Profitability: | | | Funding raised: | Yes | | Funding sought: | | | Seeking Partnerships: | |
| NON-EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS | | |
Jonathan Brooks, Pond Venture Partners Ltd.
Graham O'Keefe, Senior Partner, Atlas Venture
Richard Irving, Chief Executive Officer, Pond Venture Partners
Stuart Patterson, Scottish Equity Partners
Jamie Urquart
| KEY CUSTOMERS | | |
Willtek
Airspan Networks
Intel
Chinese Academy of Science
| KEY BUSINESS PARTNERS | | |
Intel
Airspan Networks
Wintegra
ETRI (Korea)
Arraycomm
| KEY COMPETITORS | | |
Texas Instruments
Analog Devices
Xilinx
| CAPITAL RAISED | | |
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