14 DAY TRIAL // Broadcom Corporation announced a single-chip Bluetooth solution optimized for wireless stereo headsets. The new chip features Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) capabilities that provide superior audio fidelity and longer battery life
The new device is the first Bluetooth chip designed specifically for stereo headsets offered by Broadcom, and is the first product resulting from the company's recent acquisition of wireless audio specialist Zeevo, Inc.
The Broadcom Blutonium BCM2037 stereo headset chip includes a Bluetooth baseband and radio, as well as an optimized architecture designed to provide the best audio experience possible for users of wireless stereo headsets.
Te BCM2037 is the first headset-specific chip available that includes EDR, a technology that triples the data rate of non-EDR Bluetooth chips from 1 Megabits per second (Mb/s) to 3 Mb/s.
The higher throughput significantly reduces power consumption by minimizing transmit times and thereby increasing the battery life of headsets based on the BCM2037.
The BCM2037 is currently sampling to Broadcom's early access partners with production availability expected in the third quarter of 2005.