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SPaSE (Semiconductor Products and System Engineering), founded in 1988, was a Netherlands based semiconductor design house that (amongst other things) developed MPEG2 decoder and DVB-T demodulator IC technologies. |
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In October 2001, SPaSE was acquired, for $5.4M, by the Texas based semiconductor company [[Microtune]], and it became the Microtune Holland Design Centre. Financial pressures lead to Microtune selling the design center, in April 2003, for one Euro to [[Micronas|Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG]] [http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20030425S0025], with whom it became integrated as the Micronas Holland BV division. |
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<nowiki> Old Homepage http://www.spase.com</nowiki> |
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Some notable IC's from SPaSE were the DVB-T demodulators [[SPaSE SP8870|SP8870]] & [[SPaSE SP8872|SP8872]] (also sold by [[Microtune]] as the [[Microtune MT8872|MT8872]]). |
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Was aquired by [http://www.mirotune.com Mirotune] in October 2001 acording to[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Jan_31/ai_82345475 Business Wire]. |
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* [http://www.iwn-verlag.de/Articles/et/et13.pdf (PDF) Magazine article outlining a bit of company history] |
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Microtune's European design center (aka. SPaSE) was aquired by Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG in April 2003 for <s>an undiscloused Price</s> one Euro according to [http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9901180 Embedded.Com] and [http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20030425S0025 CommsDesign] ([http://www.micronas.com/investor/reports/2003/hyr2003/downloads/mnsn_hyr03e.pdf Microna Info]) |
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[http://jonahprobell.com/vid_chips.html Video Chip Overview] |
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Latest revision as of 04:52, 7 August 2007
SPaSE (Semiconductor Products and System Engineering), founded in 1988, was a Netherlands based semiconductor design house that (amongst other things) developed MPEG2 decoder and DVB-T demodulator IC technologies.
In October 2001, SPaSE was acquired, for $5.4M, by the Texas based semiconductor company Microtune, and it became the Microtune Holland Design Centre. Financial pressures lead to Microtune selling the design center, in April 2003, for one Euro to Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG [1], with whom it became integrated as the Micronas Holland BV division.
Some notable IC's from SPaSE were the DVB-T demodulators SP8870 & SP8872 (also sold by Microtune as the MT8872).