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三星收购超低功耗Wi-Fi芯片公司

发布时间:2012-6-13

关键字:三星电子  收购 

韩国三星电子(Samsung Electronics)公司日前宣布收购瑞典的超低功耗无线局域网络芯片组开发商 Nanoradio AB 公司,详细收购金额并未披露。

 

Nanoradio公司的主要业务是针对蜂巢式平台开发低功耗的小型高性能Wi-Fi芯片。该公司目前拥有约60名员工。

 

三星并未披露任何有关此项交易的细节,或是未来针对并购公司 Nanoradio 的详细计划。

 

Nanoradio 公司成立于2004年,曾获得至少7,300万美元的风险投资资金,其中1,700万美元是在2010年由数家创投公司提供。2011年, Nanoradio公司以高达2,929%的成长幅度名列Deloitte LLP公司的欧洲、中东与非洲成长最快速科技公司前500强。

 

2009年, Nanoradio 曾宣布为夏普(Sharp Electronics)提供Wi-Fi芯片组。

 

Samsung buys cellular Wi-Fi chipset vendor

Dylan McGrath

 

SAN FRANCISCO—South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Friday (June 1) it acquired Nanoradio AB, a Swedish developer of ultra low-power wireless LAN chipsets for mobile phones, for an undisclosed sum.

 

Nanoradio (Kista, Sweden) specializes in developing small form factor high performance Wi-Fi chipsets with low power consumption for cellular platforms. The firm has about 60 employees.

 

Samsung (Seoul, South Korea) did not disclosed any details about the transaction or its plans for Nanoradio.

 

Nanoradio, founded in 2004, had raised at least $73 million in venture funding, including $17 million from a group of several venture capital firms in 2010. In 2011, Nanoradio was named to Deloitte LLP's ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, placing 37 with a listed growth rate of 2,929 percent.

 

In 2009, Nanoradio announced it would supply Sharp Electronics Corp. with Wi-Fi chipsets for an integrated low power Wi-Fi system in package.