Sirific Wireless Expands Chip Development Team: Opens New Design Center in Dallas Area
SANTA ROSA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 21, 2004—
Sirific Wireless Corporation, an innovator of
single-chip multi-mode direct conversion CMOS RF transceivers for WWAN
and WLAN, announces the opening of a new IC development center in
Richardson, Texas. This action allows Sirific to expand its chip
development resources to meet growing market demand for its product
roadmap of multi-mode WWAN/WLAN RF solutions. Opening the new
Richardson design center demonstrates that Sirific is extending its
lead in the GSM/GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA and WLAN RF semiconductor market.
"Sirific is growing in very smart ways. Our new design center will
allow us to greatly extend our capabilities to produce highly
integrated multi-mode WWAN/WLAN RF semiconductor solutions in CMOS,"
said Bryan Bell, Vice President of Engineering at Sirific. "We now
have a top-notch engineering team in the Dallas area that we can
leverage to build upon our existing, proven, patented Virtual LO(TM)
direct conversion CMOS RF technology."
Michael J. Hogan, President and CEO of Sirific Wireless, also
expressed his excitement: "We are enthusiastic about this opportunity
to considerably increase our chip development capabilities. Our new
Richardson design center is staffed with high-caliber people who will
greatly accelerate Sirific's product roadmap, and will further
substantiate the innovative nature of our technology and approach to
the wireless market."
The team in Richardson shares over 70 years of experience in
analog circuit design, RFIC and systems design, as well as DSP and
digital circuit design at wireless semiconductor leaders such as
Motorola, Texas Instruments, Ericsson and Philips. In the coming
months, Sirific intends to increase its engineering investments at its
Richardson site, which is strategically located in the heart of the
DFW Telecom Corridor. For information about career opportunities at
Sirific Wireless go to http://www.sirific.com/careers.html.
About Sirific Wireless Corporation
Sirific Wireless Corporation is a fabless RF semiconductor company
that develops and markets a family of multi-standard & multi-band RF
transceivers for GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA & WLAN. Virtual LO(TM), Sirific's
patented technology, enables unparalleled levels of performance and
integration for our single-chip Direct Conversion CMOS transceivers;
dramatically reducing the cost, form factor and power consumption of
mobile handsets, laptops and PDAs.
Sirific is based in Santa Rosa, California; Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada; and now in Richardson, Texas.
Contact:
Sirific Wireless Corporation
Nathaniel Slinkert, 707-575-5333 x102
nslinkert@sirific.com
www.sirific.com
