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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 October 2005
Freescale acquires CommASIC
Freescale Semiconductor has acquired CommASIC, a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego.
Freescale Semiconductor has acquired CommASIC, a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego CommASIC provides modem processing multimode technologies, including orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based solutions, such as Wi-Fi-certified 802.11a/b/g
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"This acquisition gives Freescale a base architecture and system expertise that can be leveraged across any OFDM-based technology such as wireless-LAN, WiMax and Digital Video Broadcast (DVB)", said Sumit Sadana, Freescale's Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development.
"CommASIC's flexible, programmable, ultra-low-power baseband architecture will complement Freescale's portfolio of offerings for networking, industrial, wireless and consumer markets".
According to the 2005 ABI Research Wi-Fi forecast, an estimated 350 million devices will have embedded Wi-Fi by 2010.
Freescale plans to offer integrated Wi-Fi technology for original equipment manufacturers to leverage in next-generation products such as cellular and VoIP handsets, personal multimedia players, computer peripherals and other consumer devices.
Founded in 2001, CommASIC is a privately held company, headquartered in San Diego, California.
It has 30 employees.
This team will staff Freescale's newly formed San Diego design centre, which will work in concert with other Freescale design centres to advance the company's connectivity roadmap.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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