Atheros to produce Bluetooth chips

January 30, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment
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atheros logo Atheros, mainly know as one of the largest WiFi chip producers, is now also entering the Bluetooth chip market, the Washington Post reports.

logo_bluetooth This makes sense as many products, such as mobile phones, now include Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and by producing both chips and it’s large proportion of the Wi-Fi chip market, Atheros hopes to be able to get mobile phone producers to buy both chips centrally from one chip manufacturer: Atheros. Atheros exisiting main competitors on the Bluetooth chip market are especially CSR, Broadcom and Texas Instruments.
Atheros expects it’s first BT chips to be available this quarter already.