CSR Bestowed with Prestigious Queen's Award Accolade.CAMBRIDGE, England -- CSR (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSR) has won the internationally renowned Queen's Award for Enterprise The Queen's Award for Enterprise is an award for British companies and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. The prestigious award is the greatest accolade a British company can receive. , 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 (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , 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) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. (initial public offering) on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. ; the industry's biggest UK technology flotation for three years. About CSR CSR is the leading global provider of personal wireless technology and its product portfolio covers Bluetooth, GPS, FM receivers and WiFi (IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11). CSR offers developed hardware/software solutions, based around its silicon platforms, that incorporate, fully integrated radio, baseband and microcontroller elements. CSR's customers include industry leaders such as Apple, Dell, LG, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nokia, Panasonic, RIM, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TomTom and Toshiba. CSR has its headquarters and offices in Cambridge, UK, and offices in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, India, France, Denmark, Sweden and both Dallas and Detroit in the USA. More information can be found at www.csr.com |
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