Design & Reuse

Intel buys Dutch multimedia DSP firm, Silicon Hive

Peter Clarke, EETimes
2/21/2011 8:46 AM EST

LONDON – Intel Corp. has acquired Silicon Hive BV, a licensor of customized parallel processing DSP accelerators for various multimedia applications.

Intel Capital was an investor in Silicon Hive (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), a spin off from the Philips Research Laboratories, and Intel has made a deal to license embedded parallel processor architectures, compilers, and programming tools for mobile phone applications in 2008.