Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Cambridge Silicon Radio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 November 2005
Asus opts for faster Bluetooth
CSR's v2.0+EDR BlueCore4 silicon has been chosen by Asus to Bluetooth-enable its latest slimline notebook computer
The Asus W6A is the first laptop model in Taiwan to offer the higher-speed EDR Bluetooth. Asus is the third computer manufacturer after Dell and Apple to adopt BlueCore4 in order to offer its customers data transfer rates three times faster than v1.2 Bluetooth products. The Asus W6A is available now worldwide.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 November 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Asus W6A follows the industry trend towards streamlined, high-performance notebooks with high-resolution, widescreen format for optimal DVD viewing and advanced gaming.
CSR's BlueCore4 with Enhanced Datarate Bluetooth offers transfer rates of up to 3Mbit/s, compared with the 1Mbit/s rate of previous Bluetooth specifications.
This feature allows more simultaneous Bluetooth connections to be sustained, thus supporting the use of a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard while sending a document to print to a Bluetooth-enabled printer, listening to music from the PC on Bluetooth stereo headphones and transferring photos over a Bluetooth link to another PC or PDA, with no impact on connection stability or performance.
In addition, as the data transfer rate is three times faster than conventional Bluetooth, power consumption is drastically reduced, as the Bluetooth radio is active for one third of the time required to send the same data by v1.1 or v1.2 Bluetooth.
BlueCore4 was launched in June 2004 and more than a year later it remains the only v2.0+EDR qualified silicon to be shipping in volume.
Glenn Collinson, Sales Director and cofounder of CSR commented: 'The multiple connectivity and fast data transfer rates offered by Bluecore4 make it ideal for integration into mobile computing applications'.
'This new Asus model will allow the company to meet all its customers' expectations in terms of design, performance and wireless connectivity'.
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