AMD Sells DTV Biz To Broadcom

Daniel Fleshbourne

26 August 2008 - 10:57

Advanced Micro Devices has sold its Digital TV business to Broadcom for $192.8 million, the two companies announced jointly Monday morning.

The deal includes Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD's Xilleon integrated DTV processors and turnkey reference designs, NXT receiver ICs, the Theater 300 DTV processor and a line of panel processors that perform advanced motion compensation, frame rate conversion and scaling, according to the companies. The 530 AMD employees on its DTV team will be able to join Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom, the two companies said in a statement.

View: The full story @ CRN

1 Comments

hmm I'm totally for this buy-out. Those AMD chips, while that devision was loosing money (apperently), they are in lots of receivers and actually seems pretty good (or at least have huge potential). I never really liked Broadcom (always cringed when I bought a server with one of their NICs in it) however by intergrating one of the world's biggest router chipset and NIC manufacturer's, maybe we can see some nice set top boxes with real good connectivity to the outside world.

Apple TV + Cable/Sat box + PVR in one box ftw!

Please Log In or Register to post a comment.

Neowin

Where unprofessional journalism looks better.

AMD Sells DTV Biz To Broadcom

Previous Story

Next Story