Taiwanese chip maker acquires ADI chipset operation

摘要

Taiwan's fabless chipmaker MediaTek has inked a definitive agreement to acquire the assets related to the Analog Devices Othello radio and SoftFone baseband chipset product lines, as well as cellular handset baseband support operations, for about $350 million in cash. As per the company's fiscal 2006 financial results, these product lines represented approximately $230 million in revenue.rnThrough this acquisition, MediaTek's wireless handset division gains a global team of about 400 product development and customer support professionals, an established customer base around the world, and new radio transceiver and baseband chipset products, including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, and TD-SCDMA chipsets, to strengthen its portfolio. Plus, it will get key patents and intellectual property to increase its competitiveness.