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News Release from: picoChip Designs | Subject: PC102
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 October 2003

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picoChip Designs reckons it has developed the world's most powerful processing device for wireless infrastructure.

picoChip Designs reckons it has developed the world's most powerful processing device for wireless infrastructure It forms the core of the most comprehensive hardware and software reference design platform for 3G equipment manufacturers, enabling significant economic and time-to-market savings

Peter Claydon, cofounder and Chief Architect at picoChip, speaking at last week's Microprocessor Forum 2003 said: "At 42GMAC per second the PC102 delivers five to ten times the price-performance of any other device on the market today.

It will take four years of Moore's Law improvements for conventional architectures to reach this point.

The PC101 has been very successful and we are very happy with the way that customers are using it in a number of designs; through the