Zyray Touts SpinnerchipZyray Touts Spinnerchip

lCANNES, France -- With the launch of SPINNERchip 1.1 today at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, Zyray Wireless is showcasing proprietary technology that enables the worlds first commercially available dual-mode (GSM/GPRS & WCDMA) multi-antenna diversity chipset for handsets. Zyray's SPINNERchip SD, which incorporates patented smart antenna technology, is the first in a series of Space-Time Processing (STP) products for mobile handsets, which the company plans to release. The product line will evolve to include enhanced MIMO and HSDPA enabled chipsets.

Increasing demand for high performance broadband wireless communication calls for use of multiple antennas at both the base station and in the subscriber unit. SPINNERchip ‘s Single Channel (SC) MIMO implementation, which utilizes two receive antennas and, combined with Zyray’s Smart Diversity, Optimum Combining and Adaptive Interference Cancellation techniques, provides an average improvement of 3.5 - 4.0dB in Signal to Interference Noise Ratio (SINR) over single antenna solutions. Benefits to network operators and cellular users include improved network capacity, significantly improved data-rates throughout the cell, improved cell coverage area, and reduced dropped calls.

Pieter Van Rooyen, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zyray Wireless said: “Multiple antenna technology is the only wireless technology currently available to resolve the bottlenecks of traffic capacity in the new high-speed broadband wireless internet access networks such as GPRS/EDGE, UMTS (WCDMA) and 802.11xx. It is important to note that this technology is now available for use on mobile handset platforms.”

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Zyray Wireless announced today that their SPINNERchip WCDMA co-processor has been selected by Infineon Technologies for its multi-mode (GSM/EGPRS & W-CDMA) reference handset. The reference handset has been developed by Infineon with the support of Zyray and will be showcased at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes.

Zyray's recently released SPINNERchip1.1 serves as the WCDMA co-processor for Infineon's S-GOLD® GSM/EGPRS application enhanced modem IC. To complete the WCDMA solution, Infineon's market leading SMARTi-U UMTS single chip RF transceiver is combined with SPINNERchip.

"As a leading platform provider for mobile communications, Infineon Technologies combines forces with reliable partners to offer competitive multimedia solutions to our customers," said Dominik Bilo, CMO of the Secure Mobile Solutions Group, Infineon Technologies. "Continuous innovation, short design cycles and the product quality are the characteristics that make Zyray such a preferred partner for Infineon Technologies"

Werner Sievers, CEO of Zyray Wireless, said: "Together Infineon and Zyray are able to offer OEM's and ODM's a compelling solution, which incorporates multi mode (GSM/EGPRS & WCDMA) functionality with a range of features and applications in a small form factor. With our proven speed of integration we can offer a very quick turnaround on handset projects which is important in the extremely competitive 3G market."

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