VIENNA (WiMAX Day). UK-based chipset designer picoChip announced the next version of its WiMAX basestation reference design, which offers a software upgrade to support mobile WiMAX Wave 2 and MIMO. “The ability to upgrade our WiMAX basestations by software is fundamental to our strategic market advantage… [and] allows our customers to deploy WiMAX services today, confident in their ability to migrate to the latest features and performance enhancements as WiMAX evolves,” said Paul Senior, VP Marketing of Airspan Networks and WiMAX Forum Board member, in a picoChip press release.