CSR has announced their new BlueCore BC7830 chipset, measuring just 11mm2 in silicon size, CSR’s BC7830 includes GPS, Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, FM transmit and receive technologies and support for Bluetooth low energy all on a single chip. This represents the next step in CSR’s Connectivity Centre and allows manufacturers to add GPS functionality for less than a dollar. BlueCore BC7830 also fully supports the forthcoming Bluetooth low energy standard.

“Building radio chips on a CMOS process is one of the toughest technical challenges in the semiconductor industry,” said Raj Gawera, Vice President Marketing, Handset Business Unit, CSR. “Due to the analogue circuitry, shrinking the size of those chips needs to go beyond the benefits that Moore’s law can provide. The only way to achieve radical size reduction, and therefore cost reduction, is to have deep innovation at an architectural level – this is what we have achieved through our Smart Integration strategy.”