CSR today launched its fifth generation of BlueCore, the Bluetooth hardware and software solution with more than 55% of the market today. CSR also today launched its BlueMedia enhancements using new DSPs embedded inside the ICs to bring both improved audio performance and added radio functionality.

BlueMedia on-chip DSP enhancements are also used in its BlueCore5 ICs to offer other non-Bluetooth radios for broadcast reception. The first of these will be BlueCore5-FM, with FM radio embedded in the Bluetooth silicon. This IC is targeted at those applications that are looking to reduce the cost, size and power consumption of existing broadcast receivers at the same time as upgrading to include Bluetooth.

These features of BlueCore5 build on top of the now well-established Bluetooth v2.0+EDR (with faster 3Mbps data transfer rates). CSR remains the only company supplying EDR silicon in volume and has already shipped over 5 million chips.