Acquisitions
On February 8, 2008, Sigma Designs completed its acquisition of Canadian manufacturer Gennum’s VXP image processing business. This technology was used in video projectors. In January 2011, Sigma announced it was adding the VXP technology to its SMP8910 system-on-a-chip.
On December 18, 2008, Sigma Designs announced the acquisition of California-based Zensys, a company that provides the wireless mesh networking technology Z-Wave.
On October 14, 2009, Sigma purchased Israeli home-networking chip maker CopperGate for $160 million in cash and stock. CopperGate technologies included HomePNA and HomePlug AV networking technologies. Sigma has since updated HomePlug AV to include ClearPath, an award-winning technology which significantly increases throughput.
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