CSR's BlueCore lands 1000th home

Leading Bluetooth technology provider CSR said that over 1000 end-products
now use its BlueCore Bluetooth technology. CSR's BlueCore features in 69% of
end-products qualified during 2004, as publicly listed on the Bluetooth Website,
according to a statement from the company. CSR asserts its top position with
almost ten times as many design wins as its closest competitor, according to the
press release. Its 1000th design win is the BenQ M315.

One year after the launch of the Bluetooth v2.0+EDR specification, CSR's
BlueCore4 remains the only EDR silicon inside any qualified end-products, said
the company. Dell, MSI, Toshiba, NEC, Cellink, HP and Apple are some of the big
users of the EDR silicon, it said.

The market for EDR is expected to grow rapidly as product manufacturers
migrate more of their products to benefit from the higher data rates and lower
power consumption figures, says the release.

Mobile phones remain by far the largest single market for Bluetooth silicon.

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