Nujira expansion includes British design centre
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Envelope tracking pioneer Nujira expects to expand to 80 people by the end of 2011, including the establishment of a design centre in Scotland.
CEO Tim Haynes, pictured, sees a bright future for Nujira's Coolteq technology and claims the market for multiband power amplifiers (PAs) in which it features could be as much as 1billion per year by 2016. "We believe the asp will be around 50cents," said Haynes, "which means a market of around $500million."
The need for multiband PAs is evidenced, said Haynes, by the five discrete PAs in the latest iPhone. "This will increase to six or seven, making PAs a big cost. We have seen some multiband PAs appearing on the market, but they have poor performance and efficiency."
Nujira has developed EPIC, pictured, as part of a three chip set targeted at tier 1 equipment developers looking to incorporate envelope tracking at low cost.
* Meanwhile, NXP's CGV series of data converters is now interoperable with Nujira's OpenET envelope tracking and digital predistortion solutions.
