The Broadband Forum’s first meeting for 2009 opened in New Orleans last week, as the organisation launches its 15th landmark year. Energy was high as a number of new specifications such as broadband energy management work, fibre-related developments, IPv6 migration plans and the beginnings of fixed mobile convergence efforts got underway.
The meeting also incorporated [...]

Company’s Solutions Shipping in New Wave-P Products to Customers Globally
Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNXT), a leading supplier of innovative semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, video, and Internet connectivity applications, today announced that Wave-particle Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (Wave-P) has selected the company’s CX25853 video decoder and CX25821 media bridge solutions for four new products. [...]

Tensilica®, Inc. today announced that Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) has selected Tensilica’s Xtensa® customizable processor cores for a video research project. The government of Hong Kong created ASTRI to perform high-quality R&D (research and development) for technology transfer to industry, develop needed technical human resources, and act as [...]

Company Now Focused on Providing Solutions for Imaging, Video, Audio, and Internet Connectivity Applications
Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT) today announced that it has completed the sale of its Broadband Media Processing product lines to NXP Semiconductors. Conexant will receive approximately $110 million in cash and up to $35 million in an “earn-out” fee, contingent upon [...]

Deal Creates Unique Positioning to Drive Revolution in TV Viewing Experience
Following the announcement of April 29 this year, NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today confirmed the completion of the acquisition of the Broadband Media Processing (BMP) business of Conexant Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ:CNXT).
With this transaction, the first for its Home [...]