Wipro-NewLogic Reinforces Its Worldwide Leadership in Bluetooth and Wireless LAN Intellectual Property

Wipro-NewLogic has been ranked #1 by market share in Leading Analyst Firm’s recently published semiconductor IP survey for Bluetooth and Wireless LAN IP

Lustenau, Austria -- September 13, 2007 -- Wipro-NewLogic, the semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) business unit of Wipro Technologies, the global IT services arm of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), announced today that it is again been ranked as the #1 supplier of Wireless LAN and Bluetooth IP worldwide according to Gartner, Inc.’s recently published Semiconductor IP Survey(1).

As the leading vendor, Wipro-NewLogic with 61% market share has more than three times the share of its nearest competitor in Wireless LAN. Gartner also rates Wipro-NewLogic as the number one worldwide supplier of Bluetooth based on Design IP revenue commanding 59% market share in 2006.

“We are excited that Gartner has recognized us again as the world leader in WLAN and Bluetooth IPs this year and this is a reinforcement of our leadership in this area. Our BT 2.0 + EDR IP which is software upgradeable to Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR has passed official testing for BT 2.0 + EDR qualification“, said Mana Coste, Director Marketing at Wipro-NewLogic. “We have been seeing good momentum for these two mature wireless technologies, including several wins with customers who asked us to design a complete turnkey solution around the IPs, especially low power ICs. Several of these complete SoCs included the RF on the same die.”

“One trend in wireless IP integration is combo solutions where different wireless technologies co-exist in the same device – especially useful in laptops and smartphones. “We are seeing a lot of demand for combo solutions such as Bluetooth and WLAN, WLAN and WiMAX, WiMAX and Bluetooth and Bluetooth over UWB,” he added.

“We are pleased with the strong customer confidence in the maturity of our IPs. Our unique ability to provide complete solutions for SOC development with RF integration to embedded software, the large investments we have been making to strengthen our IP portfolio and the certification efforts for our IPs , are the key contributors that enabled us to maintain our leadership position.” said Senthil Murugesan, Vice President and CEO of Wipro-NewLogic.” A combination of world class IPs and the Silicon and System design capabilities uniquely positions us to be a key partner for customers looking for turnkey solutions in the wireless connectivity space”

Wipro-NewLogic’s WLAN and Bluetooth IPs

Wipro-NewLogic’s wireless LAN IP offering comprises of an IEEE 802.11 a/b/g MAC (hardware+software), modem (baseband) and radio (RF) – it is a complete, silicon proven solution, which makes the customer independent of 3rd party components. It includes support for the latest Wi-Fi® specifications like WPA2™ and WMM®.
The Bluetooth portfolio consists of the Bluetooth baseband core, a full Bluetooth software protocol stack, and a Bluetooth CMOS RF transceiver. It supports the Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR specification, and will be compatible with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with a software upgrade.
Target for these IPs are customers integrating wireless connectivity in their ASICs and SoC devices. Target applications include laptops, mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players/PMP with audio/video streaming capability from internet to PC, digital still cameras, headsets and access points.
Demonstrations of Wipro-NewLogic’s innovative solutions can be given worldwide at customer’s facilities or in the Wipro-NewLogic offices in Lustenau (Austria), Sophia-Antipolis (France), Munich (Germany) or India (Bangalore, Pune).
For more information about our products and services, please contact us at semi.ip@wipro.com.

About Wipro-NewLogic

Wipro-NewLogic is a leading semiconductor design services provider and supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) cores for complex wireless and wireline applications; thanks to its expertise in complex transceivers, its CMOS RF and its design services capabilities, Wipro has become the partner of choice to design digital, RF and mixed signal CMOS SoCs (system-on-chip).
Wipro-NewLogic's IP portfolio includes Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11), Bluetooth, Ultra WideBand (UWB), FireWire (IEEE1394) and USB. The IP cores consist of software, digital signal processing & algorithms, silicon proven CMOS radios (RF) and mixed-signal blocks such as AFEs, ADC/DACs, PLLs.
Complementing its IP, Wipro's services cover the design cycle of VLSI design, from feasibility studies to digital/analog/RF design, including the development of complete RF-plus-digital SoCs (system-on-chip) and also support customers in the run up to production.
For more information, visit www.wipro-newlogic.com

About Wipro

Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development center’s. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally.
In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS’ are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit our websites at www.wipro.com