Qorvo® Announces It Is Supplying Ultra-Wideband Technology for Google’s Pixel 6 Pro Flagship Smartphone
December 20, 2021 at 08:00 am EST
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Qorvo® announced it is supplying Ultra-Wideband technology for Google’s Pixel 6 Pro flagship smartphone. The Qorvo DW3720 UWB solution enables a breadth of new use cases from “find my stuff” applications and indoor location/indoor navigation to secure peer-to-peer financial transactions and other location-based “secure association” applications. UWB provides ultra-precise distance and location information, enabling context awareness to connected devices for seamless, secure and intuitive user experiences. Qorvo’s UWB solution developed for Pixel includes the DW3720 transceiver and full software support for the Android operating system. The software stack developed by Qorvo for the Pixel 6 Pro is compatible with other Android devices. Qorvo’s UWB solutions are compliant with the IEEE 802.15.4z standard and are developed in accordance with the FiRa consortium PHY - MAC specification and Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) specifications. As a member of FiRa and CCC, Qorvo is committed to ensuring device interoperability and growing the UWB ecosystem. Qorvo’s UWB solutions significantly enhance the end user experience and make automotive, smartphone, and consumer and industrial IoT applications simple, smart and secure.
Qorvo, Inc. specializes in the design, production and marketing of radio-frequency components and solutions. In particular, the group makes power amplifiers, embedded modules, selector switches, duplexers, power management devices, wireless connection solutions, frequency convertors, oscillators, couplers and optical components.
Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- mobile terminals and electronic devices (76.3%);
- defense and aeronautics equipment, network infrastructures (23.7%).
At the end of March 2022, the group had 7 production sites located in the United States (3), China (2), Costa Rica and Germany.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: the United States (41.5%), China (32.3%), Taiwan (7.4%), Asia (13.4%) and Europe (5.4%).
QORVO, INC. 
