October 11th, 2007
RDW, a leading provider of wireless network solutions and Key ASIC, a leading fabless design service provider of ASIC and System-on-Chip (SoC) products, have entered into a Collaboration Agreement to provide wireless solutions for consumer and computing applications. 

Under this Collaboration Agreement, RDW will provide its wireless IP and system expertise for the products. Key ASIC will provide certain semiconductor IP's, optimized complete chip implementation, and manufacturing of the products. Included in this cooperation, Key ASIC obtains the rights to use RDW’s 802.11 a/b/g baseband IP for its ASIC business. 

"We chose to partner with RDW because of their advanced baseband designs for Wi-Fi and WIMAX applications," said Alan Aronoff, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. "RDW has industry proven and certified Wi-Fi solutions." 

"We see Key ASIC as a great partner for us in the highly competitive consumer market," said Chenyu Chang, Executive Vice President of RDW. "Key ASIC's ability to optimize the chip design for cost and performance and provide complete solutions for PCIe made them an ideal partner for us." 

The initial product developed under the co-operation agreement is an 802.11 a/b/g controller with PCI Express interface targeted for the PC market. Samples will be available in the second quarter of 2008, with a complete reference design using the PCI Express MiniCard form factor and software drivers for Windows XP and Vista. Production shipments for the initial product will begin in mid-2008.