About us
Icera is a fabless semiconductor company, pioneering soft modem chipsets for the fast growing Mobile Broadband device market. Icera technology delivers the highest performance modem solutions with the smallest silicon die size for USB sticks, laptops, netbooks and smartphones.
Founded in 2002, Icera has design locations in the UK, France, North America and China and customer engineering and sales offices across Asia, Europe and the USA. The company has raised $250M venture funding and is backed by leading European and US VC companies.
Icera's Livanto® family of chipsets and software has been selected by leading manufacturers of mobile broadband devices, predominantly for USB modem sticks and embedded modules for notebook and netbook computers, which are shipping today on major operator networks globally.
Mobile network operators are specifying Icera chipsets because of the benefits of the company's unique, new soft modem technology which delivers higher performance on smaller silicon, increasing consumer mobile broadband data rates and improving network capacity while simultaneously pushing down costs.
Icera technology supports both 2G and 3G technologies, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSPA and HSPA+, delivering peak data rates of 21Mbps, with a roadmap for the next 4G standards including Long Term Evolution (LTE).
