Taiwan's Acer Labs enters Bluetooth market, licenses IP from NewLogic

Taiwan's Acer Labs enters Bluetooth market, licenses IP from NewLogic
By Semiconductor Business News
July 4, 2001 (5:30 a.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010702S0065

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's Acer Laboratories Inc. here today jumped into the Bluetooth chip market, announcing that it has licensed this technology from NewLogic Technologies AG of Lustenau, Austria.

Under the terms, Taipei-based Acer Labs will integrate NewLogic's intellectual property (IP) cores in its PC chip set lines. This includes NewLogic's Bluetooth-enabled, CMOS-based radio transceiver.

NewLogic's IP line, dubbed Boost, also includes a Bluetooth-enabled baseband processor, software protocol stack and a CMOS-based radio. These IP elements, combined with microcontroller core, permit the implementation of a single-chip, CMOS-based Bluetooth solution.