As the emerging femtocell industry seeks to find ways to bring the price point for residential, business and hot-spot products down to $100, competition for low-cost components and products will heat up. DesignArt Networks, a fabless semiconductor company backed by Motorola Ventures, today unveiled a new WiMAX femtocell system-on-a-chip as well as reference designs for the technology, which it says will meet that pricing challenge. The single-chip product is called the DAN2200. The company said chips based on the technology will be available in the first quarter of 2009. The company is also working on a silicon solution for LTE femtocell products.
Product vendors recently announcing femtocell strategies to achieve a $100 price point include Radioframe Networks and Nokia Siemens Networks.
For more:
- read the release [1]
Related articles:
RadioFrame [2] gets $26M in funding for femtocells
PicoChip [3] unveils LTE femtocell reference designs
Nokia Siemens [4] looks to slash femtocell prices
Links:
[1] http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/designart-networks-announces-fully-integrated-wimax-femtocell-soc
[2] http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/radioframe-gets-26m-funding-femtocells/2008-08-28
[3] http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/picochip-unveils-lte-femtocell-reference-designs/2008-05-22
[4] http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/nokia-siemens-looks-to-slash-femtocell-prices/2008-04-28