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SiTune Samples State-of-the-art 5G RF Transceiver Silicon to Tier-1 Customers and Partners Worldwide
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

SiTune IceWings(TM) is raising the bar with superior performance, lowest power 
consumption, and most frequency band. 

SiTune Corporation a leading provider of Radio Frequency  (RF) and mixed-signal 
integrated circuits is sampling IceWings(TM) as the lowest power RF transceiver 
silicon along with reference designs and complete software platform to Tier-1 
customers and partners worldwide. IceWings(TM) feature sets and versatile 
architecture will be leveraged by multiple global customers in various products 
including 5G NR gNodeB, small cell, CPE, and User Equipment.

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IceWings(TM) is an innovative RF transceiver with 4 integrated transmitters and 
4 integrated receivers that supports a wide range of standards with signal 
frequencies below 7.2GHz and enables mmWave applications by intermediate to 
baseband conversion. This unique product with wide-band low noise amplifiers 
and one-of-a-kind multi-band capability offers the highest signal quality and 
the lowest power consumption in the industry. IceWings(TM) is enabling a 
diverse range of TDD/FDD applications including cellular infrastructure designs 
as well as private networks and access points. The new silicon is based on 
GlobalFoundries ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3341522-1&h=2571903545&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgf.com%2F&a=GlobalFoundries 
)(R)' (GF(R)) 22FDX(TM) platform, providing superior performance with digital 
and RF enhancements for 5G Sub-7GHz and mmWave infrastructure.

With accelerated investment in the newly opened C-band, or n77/ n78/n79 as the 
world's most popular 5G band, equipment manufacturers and network operators are 
looking for the best-in-class RF products supporting the wider available 
bandwidth in various frequencies. Contrary to traditional solutions with costly 
BOM that require multiple high-power chips, IceWings(TM) offers an integrated 
low power programmable transceiver for any band and various bandwidths.

"IceWings(TM) not only supports more than 300MHz of bandwidth for multi-carrier 
applications in C-band, it's also the lowest power solution in the market 
enabling operation in the sweet spot of mid-band in terms of bandwidth and 
signal range," says Dr. Marzieh Veyseh SiTune CTO/CPO. "All frequency bands 
below 6GHz as well as 6GHz to 7.2GHz are supported with excellent 
wide-bandwidth performance. We have been partnering with GF to fabricate 
IceWings(TM) based on their leading FDSOI solution, and we are currently 
sampling IceWings(TM) to a wide range of enterprise and telco customers 
including EdgeQ, targeting use cases from enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) to 
critical IoT and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC)"

"GF has been helping customers overcome 5G complexity challenges and rollout 
pressures, while minimizing CAPEX and OPEX expenditures, through a combination 
of feature-rich solutions and specialized RF post-fab turnkey services that 
build on our decades of RF expertise," said Peter Rabbeni, vice president, 
wireless infrastructure, and SATCOM business line at GF.  "The combination of 
SiTune's leading technology and GF's innovative solutions, will unlock a new 
wave of immersive user experiences and make industry transformation a reality."

"To be true beneficiaries of 5G, we need to navigate the market through all the 
multiplicities and complexities of 5G, intuitively and seamlessly.  
IceWings(TM) uniquely addresses the pluralities of 5G in an elegant manner.  By 
collapsing multiple spectrums, multiple bands, and multiple protocols into a 
compact footprint that is efficient, intelligent, and low power, we can distill 
5G into a simple construct, ideal for wireless infrastructure," said Hari 
Gangadharan, Head of Silicon Engineering of EdgeQ.

"5G's transformative power will be realized by the broad deployment of the 
infrastructure in the mid-band. This requires best-in-class RF transceivers, 
where IceWings(TM) is a clear technology leader with the highest integration at 
the lowest power dissipation," said Hossein Moiin, Operating partner at Cota 
Capital and former CTO of Nokia. 

"5G networks continue to evolve from NSA to SA and with ramping deployments of 
mid-band massive MIMO networks and mmWave networks," said Phil Solis, Research 
Director, Connectivity and Smartphone Semiconductors at IDC ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3341522-1&h=4260782812&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.idc.com%2F&a=IDC 
). "What was missing in the market until recently were transceivers and 
beamformer ICs with better performance and lower power consumption, and 
SiTune's transceivers are an important part of this evolving picture." 

About SiTune Corporation

SiTune Corporation is an innovator of multiple generations of state-of-the-art 
RF and Mixed signal System on a Chip for 5G wireless transceivers and broadcast 
receivers based on SiTune's patented revolutionary Hardware Intelligent 
Circuits, HIC(TM), technology. SiTune is currently shipping products including 
tuners for advanced multi-channel TVs, Set-top Boxes, spectrum monitoring for 
Cable head-ends and tuners for Mobile TVs. For more information, please visit 
www.situne-ic.com. 

SOURCE: SiTune Corporation

CONTACT: Marzieh Veyseh, SiTune CTO, marziehv@situne-ic.com

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