Chipcon / Texas Instruments

Chipcon, Inc. a fabless semiconductor company, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of high-performance standard radio frequency integrated circuits for use in various wireless applications. The company is based in Cupertino, California. Chipcon provides industry leading ZigBee™-compliant solutions and a broad range of proprietary RF-ICs that enable innovative low-power wireless applications. Chipcon’s software, development kits, and reference designs speed developers’ time to market. Chipcon specialized in the design and manufacturing of wireless communication solutions, particularly in the field of low-power wireless technologies.

Chipcon's product portfolio included transceivers, system-on-chip (SoC) devices, and related components designed for applications in areas such as home automation, industrial control, healthcare, and other wireless sensor network applications.

Chipcon aquired by Texas Instruments. With the acquisition of Chipcon, TI provides customers with industry-leading ZigBee™-compliant solutions and a broad range of proprietary RF-ICs that enable innovative low-power RF applications. Chipcon’s market-leading RF portfolio, technical support and development tools combined with TI’s high-performance analog silicon technologies, systems experience and extensive sales network will provide customers with complete low-power RF solutions for consumer electronics and building automation applications. 

Zigbee is a wireless communication standard designed for short-range, low-power, and low-data-rate applications. It is part of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which defines the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers for low-rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs). Zigbee is commonly used in applications such as home automation, industrial automation, healthcare, and other Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios where devices need to communicate wirelessly with low power consumption.