Monday, April 07, 2008

Icera to Acquire Sirific Wireless for Radio Frequency (RF) CMOS Technology

BRISTOL, England, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - Strengthens Icera's Competitive Position in the Radio Chipset
Market Icera Inc., the leader in software system defined radio modem chipsets,
today announced that it have signed a unequivocal understanding to unify with
Sirific Wireless, a fabless semiconducting material company specializing in advanced
CMOS releasing factor transceivers. This volition enable Icera to present a complete chipset
solution for the mobile broadband market, which industry analysts anticipate to
grow from just 90 million endorsers today to 1.3 billion by 2012. The trade significantly speed ups Icera's clip to marketplace and
competitive place for complete radio modem chipsets used in mobile
broadband datacards, USB dongles, laptops, mobile cyberspace devices and
mobile phones. Stan Boland, President and chief executive officer of Icera, said: "Sirific have industry
leading CMOS releasing factor expertness which greatly complements Icera's
category-defining soft baseband technology. The amalgamation of the two companies
enables Icera to present all of the complex modem Si to manufacturers
of cellular information devices and phones, strengthening our emerging place as
a grade 1 provider in the mobile broadband market." Tajinder Manku, Laminitis and CTO of Sirific Radio said: "We are
excited by the chance to compound our resources with those of the Icera
team to make an industry-leading wireless modem chipset company." Sirific's scope of advanced single-chip, multi-band, multi-mode (HSDPA,
HSUPA, WCDMA, EDGE, GPRS, GSM) CMOS releasing factor transceivers incorporate advanced
direct up-/down-conversion architectures, a patented frequence synthesizer,
a dual-receive way to back up have diverseness and a DigRF-compliant
baseband interface to increase functionality, while reducing cost, size and
power consumption. Icera's Livanto(R) is the world's first software system baseband for mobile
phones and cellular information devices. A new type of processor - DXP(R) in
Livanto(R), lets all the radio modem mathematical functions to be implemented in a
software modem called Adaptive Wireless(TM). Icera is the lone company able
to accomplish this completely soft solution transportation today in commercial
devices. Livanto(R) presents the world's peak public presentation HSPA solution,
enabling consumers to direct and have big electronic mail data files with attachments,
speedily entree web pages and download music paths over the air in
seconds. Already supporting 2.5G standards, GSM, GPRS and edge as well as
the peak public presentation 3G (WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA), Livanto(R) will be
developed for further air interfaces, including HSPA+ and LTE which can
be amalgamate as a multimode solution on the same device. The existent Sirific designing locations in Richardson, Texas, United States and
Waterloo, Canada will be retained. These locations will go on to focus
on leading border CMOS releasing factor Si and system design. This volition convey the
total figure of designing locations for the concerted company to five and the
total figure of employees to 260. The boards of managers of each of the companies have got approved the
merger. The closing, which is expected to happen in Q2 2008, stays subject
to customary shutting conditions. The fiscal footing of the trade have got not
been disclosed. The incorporate companies will utilize the Icera name. About Icera Icera is a fabless semiconducting material company, pioneering high performance,
low power, software system defined radio modem chipsets for the fast growing
mobile broadband device market. Icera engineering presents the highest
performance modem solutions for USB dongles, datacards, laptops, mobile
internet devices and mobile phones. Founded in 2002, Icera is headquartered
in the UK, with designing locations in Bristol and Cambridge, United Kingdom and Sophia
Antipolis, France, with gross sales business offices in Europe, Japan, China and USA. For
more information, visit the Icera web land site at About Sirific Wireless Sirific Radio Limited is a privately held fabless semiconductor
company that designings and develops CMOS releasing factor transceiver integrated circuits
for multi-mode mobile devices. Sirific is Advancing releasing factor CMOS(TM) with a
portfolio of single-chip 3.5G merchandises that transcend today's industry
standards to fulfill the demands of tomorrow's radio applications. The company is headquartered in Richardson, Texas, with designing facilities
in Richardson, Texas, Waterloo, Lake Ontario Canada. For more than information about
Sirific Radio visit .

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