Broadcom Combo Chips compliant with new Bluetooth low energy WirelessTechnology

Following the previous report about the latest version of Bluetooth, Broadcom has announced that its latest generation Bluetooth combination chip is compliant with the ratified Bluetooth low energy version of the Bluetooth technology specification. The Bluetooth low energy specification enables an ultra-low power implementation of Bluetooth technology, making the technology increasingly applicable for wireless medical and fitness monitoring devices that necessitate very long battery life.

With Broadcom's dual-mode implementation, OEMs can extend these new Bluetooth low energy applications to smartphones and other devices while also enabling a wide array of existing popular Bluetooth functions with a single chip, paving the way for the new Bluetooth low energy version of the specification to gain broad adoption in consumer electronics products.

Broadcom's Bluetooth low energy product offering includes extensive hardware and software innovations that will be made available across many of the company's Bluetooth products over the coming year. The first Bluetooth low energy offering will be the Broadcom InConcert BCM2049 Bluetooth combo chip that supports Bluetooth low energy dual-mode operation and is a cost effective, high performance solution that enables mobile phone manufacturers to extend the user experience of their handset products to the coming wave of Bluetooth low energy devices.