Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: RF Micro Devices | Subject: RF8900
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 March 2005
Single chip brings Bluetooth and GPS
together
The RF8900 is billed as the industry's first sole-source "converged" Bluetooth/GPS solution.
Shipping now from RF Micro Devices, the RF8900 is the industry's first sole-source "converged" Bluetooth/Global Positioning System (GPS) solution Through its unique ability to integrate both Bluetooth communication and GPS technology into a complete system solution, RFMD's RF8900 enables a 20% reduction in size and a 25% reduction in cost compared with competing solutions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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