Thursday, June 7, 2007

Cisco invests in ZeroG Wireless

Chip designer ZeroG Wireless emerged from stealth mode by announcing it has raised more than $13m in its first round of funding from Cisco and others, which it will spend on research, development and the manufacturing of its product.

The Sunnyvale, California-based company is developing low-powered RF chips that can wireless connect distributed nodes throughout the enterprise. Beyond that, it is keeping tight-lipped. AdvertisementSenior director of sales David Friedman said the silicon itself would be a mixed-signal RF chip, but wouldn't give any specifications. He declined even to elaborate on how those chips might be used, except to say they would transmit and receive data wireless and would have a very small battery capacity. "In the future, wireless is going to grow in a big way, but will be true wireless," Friedman said. "So very small battery, no plugs, lots of little things collecting data."

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