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News Release from: Spreadtrum Communications
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 January 2008
Acquisition enhances RF expertise
With the acquisition of Quorum, Spreadtrum gains a highly skilled RF engineering team of 30 engineers with an average of 10 years of industry experience.
Spreadtrum Communications has completed the acquisition of Quorum Systems, a San Diego-based fabless semiconductor company that specialises in the design of highly integrated CMOS RF transceivers Spreadtrum expects the combined entity to provide a more competitive and complete wireless platform, providing Spreadtrum with more design flexibility while expanding its addressable markets
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Prior to the closing, Spreadtrum and Quorum were issued an export licence by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the transaction was reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
With the acquisition of Quorum, Spreadtrum gains a highly skilled RF engineering team of 30 engineers with an average of 10 years of industry experience.
The combination of Spreadtrum's leading single-chip baseband solutions with Quorum's complementary low-power high-performance RF designs is expected to strengthen Spreadtrum's competitive position in the wireless market, including in 2G, 3G, RF, baseband, physical layer software, protocol and applications.
Since its founding in 2003, Quorum has created multiband transceiver designs ranging from GSM/GPRS/Edge to WCDMA and 3G HSDPA application, plus a recently announced TD-SCDMA platform.
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