Intel acquires mobile multimedia specialist
Intel has acquired Silicon Hive, a company that develops programmable parallel processor technology for SoC design.
The mobile multimedia specialist was originally owned by Philips Electronics but was spun off in 2007. The acquisition has been made to enable Intel to enhance its Atom line of chips and compete with ARM based ones.
Silicon Hive uses a software approach to SoC design which makes chips less expensive and more adaptable. It focuses on parallel processing designs that can be built into SoC chip products at the heart of multimedia friendly consumer electronics devices.
