CEVA Blutooth og Wi-Fi teknologi i over 1 mia. devices

CEVA markerer over 100 indgåede IP licensaftaler for firmaets Bluetooth og Wi-Fi teknologier, der anvendes i en bred vifte af sammenhænge (in english).

This achievement reflects the tremendous growth in demand for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, particularly in IoT markets, with global tech market advisory firm ABI Research predicting that by 2023, more than 10 billion Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled devices will ship annually.

RivieraWaves was acquired by CEVA in July 2014, as part of the company's diversification strategy and has continued to go from strength-to-strength under CEVA's stewardship, dominating the semiconductor IP licensing industry for both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. In the same period, CEVA's customers have shipped more than 1 billion Bluetooth and Wi-Fi powered devices, with more than 300 million CEVA-powered Bluetooth devices shipped in 2018 alone.

Ange Aznar, Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless IoT Business Unit at CEVA, explains:

- This accomplishment of surpassing 100 Bluetooth and Wi-Fi licensing deals in less than five years is extremely impressive and I am proud to be part of the leadership team through this period of strong growth. This achievement is a testament to the performance andquality of the IP delivered by our engineers and the strength of our sales organization. We look forward to seeing what innovative and exciting products our large wireless IoT customer base bring to market in the coming years.

- CEVA is the industry's only licensor of both the Bluetooth Dual Mode and Low Energy standards, and has been broadly licensed both to leading semiconductor vendors and OEMs, worldwide. CEVA has pioneered the hearable and wearable markets, and has powered many iconic devices, including the Xiaomi Mi Band series of activity trackers, Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids from leading players including Oticon, smart thermostats from Nest, the highly popular Tile trackers, Pokémon Go PLUS and hundreds of wireless speakers, earbuds and wearables.

CEVA's Wi-Fi IP powers products scaling from smart devices to access points, and has shipped in tens of millions of devices to date. With the advent of Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi is proving to be more popular with IoT device designers due to the low power capabilities this latest standard brings. CEVA's customer base for wireless connectivity includes Actions, ASR Micro, Atmosic, Beken, Bestechnic, Celeno, Dialog Semiconductor, Espressif, LifeSignals, NXP, ON Semiconductor, Optek, Oticon, RDA, Rockchip, Siflower, ZTE and many others.

Andrew Zignani, Principal Analyst, ABI Research, comments:
- Licensable Intellectual Property plays an important role in meeting the extraordinary growth projections for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, with many companies choosing to integrate the connectivity standard into their SoC designs to shrink the cost, power and size of their devices. CEVA is a key enabler for a whole wave of companies embedding Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, providing them with leading-edge technology and industry-renowned expertize in wireless connectivity.