Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 August 2004
Belkin opts for WirelessUSB
Belkin Corp has selected Cypress's WirelessUSB radio-system-on-a-chip technology for use in a new family of products it is designing for PC-based media-centre/home-theatre applications
Belkin Corp has selected Cypress's WirelessUSB radio-system-on-a-chip technology for use in a new family of products it is designing for PC-based media-centre/home-theatre applications, including WirelessUSB-based keyboards, mice and remote controls. The first products are expected to appear on store shelves by early September, in time for the year-end holiday shopping season.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 August 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Multimedia PC and home theatre technologies are converging to create a host of opportunities for new types of low-cost wireless peripherals", said Scott Borden, Director of Belkin R and D Labs.
"We selected WirelessUSB for this application because the technology offers superior range, battery life, and performance versus competing solutions, including 27MHz and Bluetooth".
"Many people today would like be able to surf the Internet from their living room couch, or download and drive movies and digital programming to home theatre systems via a multimedia PC", said Cathal Phelan, Vice President of Cypress' Personal Communications Division.
"WirelessUSB gives designers like Belkin the low-cost, robust performance and flexible architecture they require to make the convenient, new wireless peripherals that will drive these systems".
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