CSR has won the internationally renowned Queen's Award for Enterprise, Innovation category. The Award acknowledges continual innovation and development in business performance, and commercial success, in UK based companies. CSR has been awarded this prestigious accolade in recognition of the success through its development of the BlueCore family of single-chip Bluetooth ICs.

CSR triumphed at the 2006 Innovation and Design Excellence Awards (iDEA). Eric Janson collected the Product Innovation Award and the Business-to-Business Product Innovation Award for CSR's BlueCore range. He was also presented with the Scientific Generics Innovation and Design Excellence of the Year Award. "I'm delighted that our business and staff have been recognised by the iDEA judges", commented Janson. "We all work extremely hard to make the best products for our customers".

iDEA recognise and celebrate innovation. They have been designed to identify "businesses that have recognised that creativity and design innovation are the critical elements of continually improving and reinvigorating themselves to stay ahead of the competition". The application and judging process is gruelling, and the winners represent a British business elite.

CSR plc has added a new accolade to its growing list of awards in 2005. The company has been ranked top of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for the eastern UK in the first year that it has been eligible for entry.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is an annual ranking which recognises the fifty fastest growing companies in different regions around the country, based on percentage revenue growth from 2000 to 2004. Ranked companies work within different areas of technology, from semiconductors, software and the Internet to communications, peripherals and computing. Companies must be at least five years old in order to be eligible for consideration. Last year however, during its fourth year of operation, CSR won the individual Rising Star award which recognised the company's outstanding performance thus-far.

CSR plc has collected yet another prestigious industry title to add to its growing collection of noteworthy accolades. The techMARK Company of the Year Award was presented to Paul Goodridge, finance director for CSR at an event held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London on 22nd November. The award, sponsored by Piper Jaffray, recognises CSR's outstanding commercial and technological achievements over the past year.

Past recipients of Company of the Year include, iSoft Group and Alizyme plc and this year, CSR defeated strong competition from Wolfson Microelectronics, royalblue Group, Gyrus Group and Avava Group to scoop the top accolade. In order to be shortlisted, a company must have demonstrated sound commercial and financial success based on their technological development. In addition, companies will also have proven outstanding long-term growth potential and a solid strategy to develop shareholder value in the future.

CSR plc, the Cambridge-based wireless silicon company, has won this year's Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for its single chip BlueCore™ family, the revolutionary devices which have fuelled the inexorable rise of Bluetooth® wireless products, from mobile phones to medical devices.
"I'm delighted to see CSR winning this year's MacRobert Award," says Academy President Lord Broers. "They had a brilliant idea, gathered the best engineers to develop it – including nearly 300 people at their research headquarters in Cambridge – and have become a global success story by exploiting a totally new market opportunity. This is what the MacRobert Award is all about – seeking, seizing and securing commercial opportunities through outstanding engineering innovation".

The presentation of the Award recognises the successful development of innovative ideas in engineering. It seeks to demonstrate the importance of engineering and the role of engineers and scientists in contributing to national prosperity and international prestige.

Cambridge Silicon Radio achieved an unprecedented double success in Business Weekly's 15th anniversary East of England Business Awards.

The fast growing Bluetooth chip specialist won both the Quoted Company category and the coveted Business of the Year prize, an achievement of particular note given the keenness of competition across all of the categories. The feat earned the company the right to take home two of the
competition's trademark Steuben crystal obelisks CSR also became the first company ever to win the award two years running and only the second to win it twice.

CSR PLC (LSE: CSR.L), has been awarded its third major industry accolade in as many weeks. The techMARK Achievement of the Year Award, which recognises the top performing companies in the quoted technology industry, was collected by Richard Ord, Vice President of CSR's Bluetooth Business Unit, at techMARK's recent awards dinner. The techMARK Awards Dinner is sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the London Stock Exchange.

This award, by its very nature, is extremely wide ranging and is being given to acknowledge outstanding achievement between 1 October 2003 and 30 September 2004. There are no hard and fast criteria concerning this award save that it will recognise exceptional achievement by an individual or a company, and that achievement could encompass a technology breakthrough, a major contract or joint venture, a major fund raising, the launch of a product, the opening up of a new market, outstanding financial success or other notable achievements.

CSR won the Business Innovation of the Year award at the National Business Awards.

The National Business Awards' Business Innovation of the Year Award acknowledges CSR's proven ability to create, nurture and develop innovations that substantially improve the commercial performance of the company. CSR has achieved quarter on quarter growth over the past 11 quarters with operating profit on Q304 exceeding revenue for the same period in the previous year. At present, CSR holds 47 percent market share of all Bluetooth silicon and more than a 60 percent design win share. CSR's philosophy is to democratise wireless technology through its commitment to low cost and by simplifying the design process for engineers by providing highly integrated wireless devices with full development support.

The National Business Awards is a completely independent programme recognising business excellence across all vertical markets, embracing businesses of all sizes and all ages. Entrants are judged on specific category criteria underpinned by the programmes values of success, innovation and ethics.
The National Business Awards are supported by forward-thinking organisations that have a desire to recognise best practice, innovative business processes, and overall business success.

CSR PLC (LSE: CSR.L), a leading provider of single chip radio devices, has won the internationally renowned Queen's Award for Enterprise, its third business accolade so far this year. The Queen's Award for Enterprise, International Trade category, follows the success of CSR's recent IPO (initial public offering) on the London Stock Exchange, the industry's biggest UK technology flotation for three years. The awards are announced today in conjunction with Her Majesty's personal birthday celebrations.

The Award recognises achievement in international trade, demonstrated by outstanding growth in overseas earnings and commercial success. Previous recipients of the Queen's Award include TTPCom and Nortel Networks. CSR's ongoing achievements were also reflected by its IPO which netted £89 million, earning the title of the largest UK technology IPO of the last 3 years.

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious awards for business performance.

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Cambridge Silicon Radio won Business of the Year

CSR scooped the European Electronics Industry's top award to become 'Company of the Year'. The European Electronics Industry Awards held on 24th September in London celebrated rising optimism within the industry. In addition to being named 'Company of the Year', CSR also received the 'Supplier of the Year' award, recognising the company's high-profile design-ins, such as Sony, Microsoft Corp. and Apple.

The Company of the Year award was selected from the individual category winners of Manufacturer, Supplier and Distributor of the Year award categories. The judging panel commented that, "The overall winner stood out for the global reputation it has created for itself.

CSR won Business of the Year award

CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) has been presented with a leading electronics industry award at a ceremony which took place on Wednesday night at the Brighton Metropole Hotel and was organised by the IML Group. The award was presented to CSR for the company's single-chip Bluetooth solution, BlueCore, recognising that it is the market leading technology which already features in 70 percent of V1.1 qualified Bluetooth modules.

Readers of Electronic Product Design, Electronics Weekly and New Electronics magazines were all given the vote to decide which innovations would take the awards. CSR's BlueCore was recognised as the best product for the communications market, for its single-chip integration of radio, microprocessor and baseband circuits for Bluetooth. BlueCore has been well ahead of the competition and CSR launched its second generation BlueCore2 at the end of 2001 before most of the competition had even begun shipping first generation chips.

CSR won the Innovation award

CSR beat off strong competition from 3Com, Compaq Computer and Toshiba to win The Best Bluetooth Product award at the Smart*Home press reception at this years Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The event, held on the 5th January at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, demonstrated some of the latest and most innovative products for the digitally-enhanced home to an audience of press and analysts attending CES.

The award was judged by a group of key media professionals including Rob Enderle, an analyst and Vice President of Giga Information Group; Frank Vizard, Technology Editor of Popular Science; and Bill Howard, Senior Executive Editor, PC Magazine. CSR's BlueCore™ family of single-chip solutions was judged by the panel to be the best product available on the market.

Readers of Electronic Product Design, Electronics Weekly and New Electronics magazines were all given the vote to decide which innovations would take the awards. CSR's BlueCore was recognised as the best product for the communications market, for its single-chip integration of radio, microprocessor and baseband circuits for Bluetooth. BlueCore has been well ahead of the competition and CSR launched its second generation BlueCore2 at the end of 2001 before most of the competition had even begun shipping first generation chips.

CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) was presented with an 'innovation of the year' award by EDN Magazine in 2001. The award was presented to CSR for the company's single-chip Bluetooth solution, BlueCore, recognising that it is the market leading technology which already features in 70 percent of V1.1 qualified Bluetooth modules.

EDN readers were given the final vote in deciding which innovations would take the awards. CSR's BlueCore01 took the top place in the Communications category for its single-chip integration of radio, microprocessor and baseband circuits for a 2.4GHz Bluetooth solution.

CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) is pleased to be a recipient of Communication System Design magazine's second annual Comet Awards for its industry leading work in Bluetooth single-chip silicon design and implementation. CSR's BlueCore01 is the only production ready single-chip Bluetooth solution with well over one million devices already shipped to CSR's customers. BlueCore 01 is designed into approximately half of Bluetooth-qualified end products to date. It is manufactured on an industry standard low-cost CMOS process and has the capability of running with the full Bluetooth stack on-chip. This provides cost and size advantages that drive the market worldwide for first-to-market Bluetooth-enabled devices.

The Comet Award honors small to medium-sized companies that have the vision, focus, innovative technology, and risk-taking skills that position them to thrive in the communications market. A team of editors from four publications selects the Comets: Communication Systems Design, EE Times, Embedded Systems Programming, and CommsDesign.com. These editorial peers collaborated to present a list of the hottest young communication companies innovating in the market.

CSR won an award for a Hot 100 company in 2001

CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) won the award for Best Bluetooth Component 2001 at the Bluetooth Congress in Monaco. CSR's BlueCore™ single-chip solution was awarded the winning trophy at the Special Award Ceremony, which took place at the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, preceding the Bluetooth Congress exhibition.

A panel of judges consisting of independent industry experts, journalists, analysts, representatives of industry bodies, and academics, considered the performance of each nominated component against a range of criteria. BlueCore, the industry's first single-chip Bluetooth solution, was judged to offer more in terms of functionality, reliability, diversity of application, market appeal, compatibility, form factor and use of technology than any other competitor.

CSR won an award for Top 30 European Private Companies

CSR won Business of the Year award

CSR won an award for Innovation of the year

CSR won an award for Business Innovation