Nanoradio gets Wi-Fi MP3 design win

Nanoradio AB, a fabless semiconductor company specialized in building components for WiFi applications, has announced a design win with a Spanish consumer electronics company called Blusens (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), formerly known as Asia Communications and Technology. Blusens other main office is in Dubai.

Nanoradio (Stockholm, Sweden) has agreed to provide a chipset to add Wi-Fi capability to a portable multimedia player. Under the terms of the agreement, Opera Wireless S.L. (Madrid, Spain) and Nanoradio will integrate Nanoradio's chips and software into Blusens' G14 product.

"Blusens, together with its appointed R&D and design house Opera Wireless, have chosen the Nanoradio WiFi solutions after an exhaustive benchmarking with other solutions in the market," said Jose Garcia, CEO of Blusens, in a statement issued by Nanoradio.

An important element of the decision was the compatibility of Nanoradio's WiFi chipset with its previous Blusens G12, an MP3, DivX Player with bluetooth.

"We have chosen Nanoradio for our roadmap of products and the cooperation goes far beyond the mere implementation of the chipset into PMP devices. This association is a corner stone in the IP based communication and interaction with Opera Wireless middleware platform for community management," said Alberto Lopez, CEO of Opera Wireless, in the same statement.

The G14, MP3, DivX player with WiFi and Bluetooth from Blusens is due to become available in available in the retail market in Q1 2007 in Spain and certain other markets, Nanoradio said.

Nanoradio was founded in March 2004 and has built a team of 65 people drawn from the cellular, wireless and semiconductor industries.

Source: EETimes