Sydney Olympic Park. CSIRO collaboration

Sapphicon Semiconductor (formerly Peregrine Semiconductor Australia, at Sydney Olympic Park) has signed an agreement with the CSIRO jointly develop a complete radio receiver on a chip measuring 5 mm x 5 mm that could eventually be used in mobile phones and other communications technologies. The development of a low-cost, ultra-high-bandwidth system-on-chip (SoC) device could also replace traditional receivers currently used in radio astronomy applications, many of which are about the size of a bar fridge. Following its collaboration with Sapphicon and CSIRO on earlier proof-of-concept projects, the Centre for Technology Infusion at La Trobe University in Melbourne will also work with Sapphicon in the development of the novel chip