LONDON — CSR plc, a fabless supplier of silicon for applications ranging from Bluetooth to GPS communications, has announced it is collaborating with foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) to develop a 40-nm low power RF manufacturing process.

CSR (Cambridge, England) said that as part of that collaboration it has validated a broad range of proprietary connectivity IP blocks at this node for incorporation into system chips, which will be marketed under the label Connectivity Center.

TSMC's 40-nm LP RF process technology enables the creation of devices that include Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi and FM radios, CSR said. The company did not state when it would be launching Connectivity Center SoCs on 40-nm.

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