Chipcon
Founded in 1996, Chipcon of Oslo, Norway is a developer and manufacturer of electronic chips for short-range RF (radio) communications. The company has the distinction of being the world's first implementor of a single-chip Zigbee international communications standard component.
In accordance with its focus on the Zigbee standard, Chipcon, in early 2005, bought U.S. company Figure 8 Wireless, which develops Zigbee system software. Typical applications of Chipcon's products are in home automation systems such as lighting and heating control and alarms, as well as TV and video game remote controls. As of 2005, the company's most successful sales lay in the market of wireless controllers for Xbox and Playstation 2 video game consoles. During the first ten years since its founding, Chipcon had sold 20 million of its RF chips.
 | This corporation or company article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |