NaviGadget: Broadcom just announced, BCM2075, a new chip that supports positioning, bluetooth connectivity, and FM radio. The BCM2075 is a solution for portable devices, such as mobile handsets, portable media players (PMPs) and personal navigation devices (PNDs), that wish to integrate Bluetooth, GPS and FM transceiver functionality and is backwards compatible with Broadcom’s BCM2049 combo chip announced in October 2008.
The company is targeting the always shrinking and power hungry cell phone market by fitting everything onto one chip and making it 30% more efficient in terms of energy used.
Broadcom will demonstrate this new combo chip solution at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
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