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- March 11 2010
Ralink Technology Corporation and TrendChip Technologies Corporation announced that a merger agreement has been approved by the Board of Directors to create a global technology leader in the home networking and broadband access semiconductor markets.
Ralink, founded in 2001, is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and operates an advanced development center in Cupertino, California. Ralink's 802.11n solutions are shipping with customers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and are embedded in hundreds of products across all major Wi-Fi market segments including personal computers, broadband gateways, digital televisions, Blu-Ray players, web cameras, and IPTV set-top-boxes.
TrendChip, also founded in 2001, is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and maintains development centers in Suzhou and Nanjing China. TrendChip is among the fastest growing xDSL CPE semiconductor suppliers in the market with over 90% growth in 2009. TrendChip's solutions have been deployed by 50 carriers in 45 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. With its high performance yet cost-effective xDSL solutions, TrendChip is on track to become the number 2 global xDSL CPE chip supplier in 2010.
- February 26 2010
IXYS Corporation announced the closing of its acquisition of Zilog, Inc. The closing of the acquisition followed the stockholders meeting of Zilog, Inc. on February 17, 2010, at which the acquisition was approved by the following vote: 12'635'022 shares were voted in favor; 11'565 shares were voted against; and 2'021 abstained. Zilog’s shares ceased trading.
Some 35 years ago Zilog was respected for being the cool kid on the block. It invented the Z80, the microprocessor of its time. The company was founded by Federico Faggin after he led the design of the first microprocessor at Intel, the 4004. Zilog became the first company solely dedicated to microprocessors. Today this era ends.
- February 18 2010
SMSC, a semiconductor company providing Smart Mixed-Signal Connectivity(TM) solutions, announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets and certain liabilities of Kleer Semiconductor Corporation (Kleer), a designer of high quality, interoperable wireless audio technology addressing headphones and earphones, home audio/theater systems and speakers, portable audio/media players and automotive sound systems. This transaction brings a robust, high-quality audio and low-power radio frequency (RF) capability that will allow consumer and automotive OEMs to integrate wireless audio technology into portable audio devices and sound systems without compromising high-grade audio quality or battery life, SMSC says.
- February 09 2010
Micron Technology Inc. and Numonyx B.V. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Micron to acquire Numonyx.
Micron would acquire all assets of Numonyx - including intellectual property, facilities, fabs, and product lines. Numonyx brings a rich portfolio of NOR, MCP and phase-change memory products that complement Micron's memory portfolio. Micron and Numonyx will continue to operate independently through closing.
- February 03 2010
Broadcom Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Teknovus, a supplier of Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chipsets and software. EPON is a technology providing broadband services at up to 10 Gigabits per second over fiber optic cables. EPON represents approximately 94% of the Fiber-to-the-Home connections in the Asia Pacific region.
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- January 14 2010
IDT® (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.), a provider of mixed signal semiconductor solutions, announced it has acquired Mobius Microsystems, a developer of all-silicon oscillator technology . The transaction, which closed on January 14, 2010, is an all-cash agreement for the outstanding Mobius shares. The agreement has already received appropriate board approvals.
- January 12 2010
The Comeback of Plessey Semiconductors
The management teams from Plus Semi in Swindon, England, and the former X-Fab facility in Plymouth, England, have relaunched as Plessey Semiconductors.
Plus Semi, a trading division of JSFM Consulting Ltd. (Lincoln, England), acquired the former Plessey wafer fab in Swindon and then purchased the former Plessey fab in Roborough, Plymouth from X-Fab Silicon Foundries GmbH.
The Plessey Company plc was a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. It originated in 1917, growing and diversifying into electronics.
In 1989 it was taken over by a consortium formed by GEC and Siemens AG which broke up the Plessey group.
In 1997 British Aerospace and Daimler-Benz Aerospace acquired the UK operations and German part of Siemens Plessey Systems. GEC acquired Siemens' 40% interest in GEC-Plessey Telecommunications the same year, renaming it Marconi Communications.
GEC Plessey Semiconductors was purchased by Mitel Semiconductors of Canada in 1998. After a number of downsizes, including the power semiconductor and silicon on sapphire operation at Lincoln, Lincolnshire being purchased in January 2000 by Dynex Semiconductor, the company renamed itself Zarlink Semiconductor in 2001. The GEC Plessey Semiconductors fab in Plymouth was acquired by Xfab and still houses a small Zarlink test facility.
After the sale of the Roborough site to Xfab, the original Plessey Semiconductors site at Cheney Manor Swindon continued to operate under the Zarlink Semiconductor name until it was sold to MHS Industries in early 2008. In February 2009 the UK business was forced into receivership following the collapse of the parent MHS Electronics business in France. After a subsequent management buyout the company traded as Plus-Semi Ltd. The Roborough site was re-aquired from Xfab on the first of January 2010 and the company re-named as Plessey Semiconductors Ltd.
- January 12 2010
Microchip Technology Inc. acquired ZeroG Wireless Inc.
ZeroG Wireless Inc. was founded in 2006 and is an embedded Wi-Fi fabless chip company developing Wi-Fi solutions.
- January 01 2010
Lantiq, Infineon Technologies AG's wireline spinoff, announced its second acquisition shortly after becoming a stand-alone company. Lantiq acquired WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) related assets and intellectual property (IP) from Israel based Metalink Ltd., a provider of high performance wireless communication silicon solutions with the capability to deliver HD-video-streams over the 802.11n standard. The transaction was signed on December 30, 2009 and closing is expected for end of January 2010. The purchase price is up to US $16.9 million; including an $8.9 million initial payment and an up to $8 million additional payment based on future performance.
Metalink really has developed an outstanding multi-stream technology, which is very successful in today's video-bridging environment.
On November 16, 2009 - Lantiq announced the successful closing of the acquisition of Home Networking and DSL related assets and intellectual property (IP) from Massachusetts based Aware Inc.
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