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PrivateFor profitSemiconductorsBath, United Kingdom

picoChip

picoChip offers signal processing products for wireless telecommunications systems.

Founded
2000
26 years ago
Staff
51-100
32 on LinkedIn
Followers
1k
on LinkedIn
Funding
$121M
as listed, USD

picoChip has been recognized with multiple industry awards and listed amongst the most exciting technology companies by leading independent organizations such as Frost and Sullivan, Deloitte, Red Herring, Light Reading and Ernst & Young. At the Best of WiMAX World Awards 2007, our products won a hat-trick of awards; Chip Design; Industry Innovation; and Industry Choice; and we were the unprecedented recipient of three ELEKTRA European Electronics 2007 awards. picoChip’s technology is currently in use by over a… Read all

picoChip has been recognized with multiple industry awards and listed amongst the most exciting technology companies by leading independent organizations such as Frost and Sullivan, Deloitte, Red Herring, Light Reading and Ernst & Young. At the Best of WiMAX World Awards 2007, our products won a hat-trick of awards; Chip Design; Industry Innovation; and Industry Choice; and we were the unprecedented recipient of three ELEKTRA European Electronics 2007 awards. picoChip’s technology is currently in use by over a hundred network operators, including eight of the global top ten. We sell to seven of the top ten telecoms equipment makers: some of our publicly announced customers include Alpha Networks, AT4 Wireless, Airspan (partnered with Fujitsu), Intel, ip.Access, Ubiquisys (supplying NEC and Motorola), Willtek, Xinwei Telecom, Zyxel and a number of other major OEMs and ODMs. Our processors are the industry-standard for WiMAX basestations, and we were the first company to develop a femtocell modem. We continue this innovation with products for TD-SCDMA, LTE and 4G. Because our products deliver dramatically better performance-per-dollar than legacy processors or FPGAs, they are particularly apt solutions to the challenges of next-generation wireless systems. By backing our programmable hardware with robust, carrier-class software stacks, we deliver complete solutions that cut costs and development time, while our customers retain the flexibility they need to differentiate their products.

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Size

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51-100 people: larger than 75% of companies with a size listed. 32 people list it on LinkedIn.

Age

200019002026

26 years old.

Reach

No web traffic ranking listed. 1,137 followers on LinkedIn.

What it does

Enterprise SoftwareTelecommunicationsWirelessHSPA WiMAX LTE TDSCDMA 4G Femtocell picoCell DSP

Funding, as listed

$121M raised in total

  • Rounds7
  • LatestDebt financing, Nov 2010
  • Latest amountUSD 9,000,000
  • Investors15, 1 leading

What the source datasets report. We have not watched these rounds ourselves.

FoundersDouglas Pulley, Peter Claydon

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The company

Name
picoChip
Type
For profit
Status
Private
Founded
2000
Founders
Douglas Pulley, Peter Claydon
Industry
Semiconductors
Categories
Enterprise Software, Telecommunications, Wireless
Specialities
HSPA WiMAX LTE TDSCDMA 4G Femtocell picoCell DSP

Where

City
Bath
Country
United Kingdom
Markets
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

Size and reach

Staff band
51-100
People on LinkedIn
32
LinkedIn followers
1,137

Funding, as listed

Total
$120,500,000 USD
Rounds
7
Latest round
Debt financing
Latest round date
Nov 2010
Latest amount
9,000,000 USD
Investors
15
Lead investors
1
Listing status
private

About this record

Sources
Crunchbase, LinkedIn
Last imported
Sept 2026

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