CSR bestowed with prestigious Queen's Award accolade
Cambridge, UK - 23 Apr 2007
CSR (LSE: CSR.L) has won the internationally renowned Queen's Award for Enterprise, Innovation category. The Award acknowledges continual innovation and development in business performance, and commercial success, in UK based companies. CSR has been awarded this prestigious accolade in recognition of the success through its development of the BlueCore family of single-chip Bluetooth ICs.
CSR has led the field in providing single-chip Bluetooth solutions and has continued to excel through its BlueCore range, bringing smaller, lower cost, high performance, and interoperable solutions to the market. The diverse BlueCore range offers a number of different architectures including Flash, Multimedia, ROM and Headset variations to accommodate the many different end products now available with Bluetooth functionality.
John Scarisbrick, CEO, commented, “We are thrilled to have been awarded the UK's most prestigious honour in business performance for a second time. Our strength is in the delivery of highly integrated wireless systems on silicon, and we will continue to provide customers with the best quality, ready-to-use software solutions and hardware reference designs for their products.“
CSR was previously awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2004 following the success of its IPO (initial public offering) on the London Stock Exchange; the industry's biggest UK technology flotation for three years.
About CSR
CSR is a global provider of innovative silicon and software solutions for the location-aware, media-rich, cloud-connected world. Our platforms are optimised for the automotive navigation and infotainment, digital cameras and imaging, connected home infotainment and wireless audio markets. We provide solutions to complex problems in the audio-visual, connectivity and location technology domains across a broad range of markets, with a technology portfolio that includes GPS/GNSS systems, Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi®, FM, NFC, aptX® and CVC™ audio codecs, JPEG, MPEG, H.264 imaging, PDL printing, microcontrollers, DSPs and broadband receivers. CSR's technology solutions and market platforms enable its customers to deliver a superior user experience and are adopted by leaders in the auto, computer, home and mobile markets. More information can be found at www.csr.com. Keep up to date with CSR on our blog, YouTube or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CSR_plc.