NEW DELHI, India—The Bangalore-based Wipro Technologies has announced a partnership with Graz, Austria-based Austriamicrosystems to jointly produce and market chipsets for the emerging Bluetooth wireless market.
The alliance will make Wipro a complete solutions provider for the Bluetooth market, while Austriamicrosystems will be able to access Wipro’s pre-designed and pre-verified, Bluetooth products to get a time-to-market advantage, Wipro announced in Bangalore.
Austriamicrosystems’ Bluetooth radio will be integrated with Wipro’s Bluetooth baseband to provide wireless system vendors and product companies with a composite Bluetooth application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or application-specific standard product (ASSP). These chips will be manufactured at Austriamicrosystems’ foundry and supported by design engineers and foundry engineering teams from both companies.
