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CSR wins prestigious “Wireless Business of the Year” award

Lord Sainsbury presents Business Weekly Award to CEO Joep van Beurden

Cambridge, UK and Sunnyvale, California, USA - 20 March 2013 - Lord David Sainsbury, Chancellor of Cambridge University, last night presented CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) with the award for "Wireless Business of the Year" at the annual Business Weekly Awards. This prestigious business award recognises outstanding commercial performance in delivering wireless solutions over the last year. This is the second time that CSR has been given the award, which is voted for by a highly regarded panel of judges drawn from high-tech commerce, industry and academia.

Accepting the award at the Queens' College ceremony on behalf of the Cambridge-headquartered semiconductor technology company, Joep van Beurden, CEO of CSR said: "This award for business excellence in wireless comes on the back of a strong year for CSR. Our annual revenue has now surpassed one billion dollars and we've consolidated our business to focus on high-growth consumer electronics markets where we hold a leadership position, including automotive infotainment, indoor location, low-energy wireless connectivity, high-quality voice and music, and camera and printer imaging. This award is a real testament to the drive and teamwork of our staff, investment in research and innovation, and ultimately our vision."

The Business Weekly Awards judging panel comprises technology entrepreneurs, industry luminaries and business academics including Hermann Hauser, Sir Michael Marshall, David Cleevely, Charles Cotton, Sherry Coutu, Peter Cowley, Harriet Fear, Richard Longdon and John Snyder.

Reporting on the awards, Business Weekly said: "Wireless winner CSR is a pioneering designer and developer of silicon and software for the consumer electronics market, helping to transform the lives of motorists, photographers, music lovers, mobile phone users and other gadget-loving consumers. As demand for its products has grown and the range of devices and applications proliferated, CSR has expanded into new markets including voice, music and gaming."

Notes to editors:
The Business Weekly Awards recognise the success of companies in Cambridge and the surrounding area. For further information about the Business Weekly Awards visit www.businessweekly.co.uk/business-awards/awards-news

About CSR
CSR is a global provider of innovative silicon and software solutions for the location-aware, media-rich, cloud-connected world. Our platforms are optimised for the automotive navigation and infotainment, digital cameras and imaging, connected home infotainment and wireless audio markets. We provide solutions to complex problems in the audio-visual, connectivity and location technology domains across a broad range of markets, with a technology portfolio that includes GPS/GNSS systems, Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi®, FM, NFC, aptX® and CVC™ audio codecs, JPEG, MPEG, H.264 imaging, PDL printing, microcontrollers, DSPs and broadband receivers. CSR's technology solutions and market platforms enable its customers to deliver a superior user experience and are adopted by leaders in the auto, computer, home and mobile markets. More information can be found at www.csr.com. Keep up to date with CSR on our technical blog or CSR people blog, YouTube, Facebook or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CSR_plc.

CAUTIONARY NOTE ON FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains certain statements (including statements concerning plans and objectives of management for future operations or performance, or assumptions related thereto) that are not historical facts and constitute 'forward looking statements' within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in relation to our leadership and capabilities to succeed in high-growth consumer electronics markets, and their performance characteristics in automotive infotainment, indoor location, low-energy wireless connectivity, high-quality voice and music and camera and printer imaging, and other future events and their potential effects on CSR. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as 'solutions for,' 'strong year,' 'vision,' and other similar expressions regarding the performance characteristics of automotive infotainment, indoor location, low-energy wireless connectivity, high-quality voice and music and camera and printer imaging, and their performance characteristics in consumer electronics products, and their potential effects on CSR. Any future release of consumer electronics products containing such technology, related products or modifications to such products' capability, functionality or features are subject to ongoing evaluation by CSR and its customers, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by CSR or its customers and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. Such forward-looking statements represent the current expectations and beliefs of management of CSR, and are based upon numerous assumptions regarding CSR's business strategies and the environment in which CSR will operate and therefore involve a number of known and unknown risks, contingencies, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of CSR, including, but not limited to, those detailed from time to time in CSR's periodic reports (whether under the caption Risk Factors or Forward Looking Statements or elsewhere), which are available at the SEC's web site
http://www.sec.gov. Each forward looking statement speaks only as of the date hereof. CSR does not undertake to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward looking statements contained herein, otherwise than required by law.

Bluetooth® and the Bluetooth logos are trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and licensed to CSR.

Wi-Fi®, Wi-Fi Alliance®, WMM®, Wi-Fi Protected Access®, WPA®, WPA2®, Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ and Wi-Fi Multimedia™ are trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance.

Other products, services and names used in this document may have been trademarked by their respective owners.

For more information contact:
US:
Nate Hubbell
March Communications
+1 (617) 960-9875
csr@marchpr.com

UK:
Russell Lindsey
Rocket Communications
+44(0)845 370 7024
csr@rocketcomms.net

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