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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 January 2006
TI completes Chipcon acquisition
Texas Instruments has finalised its previously announced acquisition of Chipcon, a leading company in the design of short-range, low-power wireless RF transceiver devices.
Texas Instruments has finalised its previously announced acquisition of Chipcon, a leading company in the design of short-range, low-power wireless RF (radio frequency) transceiver devices This acquisition will expand TI's high-performance analogue portfolio and will enable TI to provide customers with industry-leading ZigBee-compliant solutions and a broad range of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits that enable innovative low-power wireless applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The acquisition combines Chipcon's market-leading radio frequency portfolio, technical support and development tools with TI's high-performance analogue silicon technologies, systems expertise and sales network to provide customers with complete low-power wireless solutions.
Chipcon's product line fully complements TI's existing high-performance analogue, power management and ultra-low-power microcontroller portfolio.
Chipcon has a strong position within both proprietary and standards-based radio technologies and targets both consumer applications such as wireless keyboard/mouse, wireless VoIP solutions, remote controls, wireless gaming accessories and active RFID systems, as well as home and building automation applications such as alarm and security systems, automatic meter reading systems and other monitoring and control systems.
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The Chipcon product line strengthens TI's position in ZigBee, a global standard for wireless monitoring and control applications.
Chipcon was the first company to launch a 2.4GHz IEEE802.15.4 compliant and ZigBee-ready RF transceiver.
The company also introduced the world's first true system-on-chip ZigBee-compliant solution and recently added location estimation capability to this product.
Chipcon is the first company to offer three ZigBee-compliant development platforms and provides a true one-stop-shop solution including RF transceivers, the industry-leading Z-Stack ZigBee protocol software, development tools and proven reference designs.
Chipcon also offers a broad range of proprietary low-power and high-performance CMOS RF ICs for a large number of wireless applications in the 300 to 1000MHz and 2.4GHz ISM frequency bands.
This product portfolio includes transceivers as well as true system-on-chip solutions.
Unlike competing system-on-chip solutions, these products deliver everything the designer needs in a single die without requiring off-chip memory and enable shorter time to market, lower cost and smaller end products, due to the high integration level.
Chipcon will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of TI from its headquarters in Oslo, Norway, as well as from its software design centre in San Diego, California.
TI is paying approximately $200 million for the acquisition.
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