ARM, CSR founders join Blu Wireless

The appointments are expected to bolster Blu Wireless's position in the 60GHz baseband IP market for 802.11ad next generation WiFi (WiGig) and 4G mobile network backhaul applications. Saxby and Collinson are also joined by Professor Andrew Nix, a leading academic expert in wireless communication technologies. "The deep technical and market expertise that these industry veterans bring to us gives us the strategic insights that will significantly accelerate our development cycle," said Blu Wireless ceo Henry Nurser. "Their backing is a strong endorsement of both our business model and our technological offering." In August, Blu Wireless secured a £2million funding round to advance its silicon IP for 60GHz wireless applications. The company's baseband technology uses a flexible parallel processing architecture to support the complex modulation schemes required for emerging multi-gigabit wireless communication standards. The IP is currently optimised for chipsets used in both advanced WiFi and 4G small cell deployments, and can be simply scaled to support the anticipated future standards as they move to 20Gb/s and beyond.