The Broadcom Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) chip maintains full backward compatibility with legacy Bluetooth devices, and delivers three times the speed while dramatically cutting power dissipation. These capabilities should make the device highly effective for such applications as wireless streaming of audio or data. The dramatic power reductions witnessed with the solution mean greater interest in the wireless technology for serving the personal area network of multimedia mobile devices. These chips, which are manufactured in the low-power 0.13micron CMOS process offer a way to achieve this, and also to reduce board space.Considering the dramatic power reductions witnessed and the increased demand for wireless multimedia and video streaming, this product might be hitting the market at the most opportune of times.
