Altair Adds SDK for LTE ChipsetAltair Adds SDK for LTE Chipset

HOD HASHARON, Israel and LAS VEGAS -- Altair Semiconductor (http://www.altair-semi.com), a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, today announced the general availability of an Embedded Linux Software Development Kit (SDK), named Open-Platform™, for its commercial FourGee-3100/6200 chipset.

Open Platform™ is an SDK that runs on the FourGee™-3100 LTE SoC’s embedded applications CPU, and enables designers to implement a wide variety of applications and functions on the chip, eliminating the need for an external host processor.Altair's Open Platform™ offers a number of key differentiators, including:

“Altair is the first company to embed an application processor running Linux inside of an LTE modem chip, giving our customers the unique ability to use our chipset for any purpose they need without having the cost, size and power burden of an external host processor," said Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development at Altair. "Our current Open Platform™ customers gain a $5-7 Bill of Materials (BOM) advantage relative to alternative solutions, which is a very significant difference when it comes to products such as dongles and pocket routers."

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