展訊通信公司日前宣布，它已簽署一項(xiàng)最終協(xié)議收購泰景信息科技公司，后者是一家手機(jī)電視接受芯片、軟件解決方案供應(yīng)商。 展訊（中國上海）是無線通信基帶和射頻芯片的無晶圓廠開發(fā)商。本次并沒有透露收購泰景的具體數(shù)字，但展訊表示，預(yù)計(jì)交易“不會(huì)對(duì)現(xiàn)金流、運(yùn)營支出構(gòu)成明顯影響”。展訊表示，收購?fù)瓿珊?，將嘗試結(jié)合自己的基帶IC和泰景的電視技術(shù)，以進(jìn)一步提升產(chǎn)品性能，降低成本。 從展訊“不會(huì)造成明顯影響”的聲明看來，展訊收購泰景應(yīng)該包括該公司手頭既有的現(xiàn)金儲(chǔ)備，并能得到其他資產(chǎn)，如專利和廉價(jià)的產(chǎn)品授權(quán)。 根據(jù)協(xié)議，在上海有近20名硬件和軟件工程師，在收購之后都將加盟展訊通信。收購交易已經(jīng)獲得雙方董事會(huì)批準(zhǔn)，尚須獲得展訊通信股東批準(zhǔn)。 展訊總裁兼首席執(zhí)行官李力游在一份聲明中表示，“廣播移動(dòng)電視是一個(gè)受新興市場(chǎng)消費(fèi)者歡迎的項(xiàng)目，這是展訊的目標(biāo)細(xì)分市場(chǎng)之一，我們正在這個(gè)市場(chǎng)快速增長(zhǎng)。收購泰景購增強(qiáng)了我們對(duì)手機(jī)制造商到終端品牌商的整體供應(yīng)鏈價(jià)值，并加速了我們的國際化進(jìn)程。” 泰景信息（總部位于加州Sunnyvale）成立于2004年，主要研發(fā)產(chǎn)品為模擬和數(shù)字等射頻集成電路。它的產(chǎn)品可以支持手機(jī)、便攜設(shè)備、消費(fèi)電子產(chǎn)品觀看移動(dòng)電視內(nèi)容。泰景信息還是一家無晶圓廠半導(dǎo)體公司，為手機(jī)和其他便攜式消費(fèi)設(shè)備接收實(shí)時(shí)、免費(fèi)無線接收的模擬和數(shù)字廣播電視提供支持。泰景信息科技的單芯片電視解決方案解決了阻礙模擬廣播電視移動(dòng)接收這一長(zhǎng)期存在的技術(shù)挑戰(zhàn)，讓制造商和運(yùn)營商能夠從廣播電視的手機(jī)和便攜式設(shè)備覆蓋中受益。 該公司已經(jīng)從模擬電視轉(zhuǎn)型到混合模擬/數(shù)字電視，但面對(duì)聯(lián)發(fā)科，銳迪科和Newport Media等公司的激烈價(jià)格壓力（見《國際電子商情》文章——《泰景倒閉揭密：倒在中國市場(chǎng)價(jià)格戰(zhàn)的血泊中》。雖然Telegent的商業(yè)模式已破裂，該公司是仍然有現(xiàn)金儲(chǔ)備，可能高達(dá)6000-7000萬美元，這些錢都是它當(dāng)年作為移動(dòng)電視芯片市場(chǎng)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者時(shí)積攢下來的。 泰景信息目前已擁有或者在申請(qǐng)的技術(shù)專利超過70項(xiàng)，產(chǎn)品線包括模擬移動(dòng)TV ICs、混合模擬/數(shù)字移動(dòng)TV ICs、移動(dòng)TV 內(nèi)部天線技術(shù)、電視播放軟件和娛樂服務(wù)軟件（可以將應(yīng)用軟件和廣告?zhèn)鬏斨潦鄢龅氖謾C(jī)設(shè)備上）。泰景信息新產(chǎn)品線 ——TLG12xx 系列為移動(dòng)TV市場(chǎng)引入了創(chuàng)新改革，包括集成內(nèi)部天線技術(shù)、耗電量低且花費(fèi)外部材料更少的單芯片模擬移動(dòng)TV接收器。 Telegent的投資者包括Index Ventures，New Enterprise Associates，Northern Light風(fēng)投，華登國際，美國斯坦福大學(xué)和加州大學(xué)伯克利分校。 編譯：Luffy Liu 本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 參考英文原文：Spreadtrum agrees to buy Telegent，by Peter Clarke

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{pagination} Spreadtrum agrees to buy Telegent Peter Clarke LONDON – Spreadtrum Communications Inc. has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Telegent Systems Inc., a developer of software and silicon for the reception of live broadcast television signals. Spreadtrum (Shanghai, China), a fabless developer of baseband and RF chips for the wireless communications market, did not indicate how much it would pay to acquire Telegent. It did say that it does not expect there will be a "significant impact to either its cash position or operating expenses" as a result of the transaction. Spreadtrum said that following the acquisition, it will explore the possibilities of integrating Telegent TV technology with its own baseband ICs to deliver further performance and cost benefits. The statement of "No significant impact" would suggest that Spreadtrum is paying something similar to the cash pile that Telegent has on-hand to acquire the company, and effectively getting other assets such as patents and product IP at a bargain price. Under the terms of the deal, approximately twenty hardware and software engineers from Telegent's Shanghai office will join Spreadtrum. The transaction has been approved by the Spreadtrum and Telegent boards of directors but has yet to be approved by Telegent stockholders, which are mainly a set of venture capital companies that have invested in excess of $35 million in Telegent. "Broadcast mobile TV is a popular feature with consumers in emerging markets, which is a target market segment for Spreadtrum and one in which we are experiencing rapid growth," said Leo Li, president and chief executive officer of Spreadtrum, in a statement. "The acquisition of Telegent enhances the value proposition we can deliver to the supply chain serving this market segment from handset manufacturer to end market brand and accelerates our international footprint." Telegent (Sunnyvale, Calif.) founded in 2004 had a spectacular rise in the middle-part of the decade and similarly precipitous fall after it pulled a planned initial public offering of shares in May 2010. In June 2010 the company appointed Ford Tamer, a veteran with experience at Broadcom, and it would seem that he was put in place to find a strategic solution for the company and its investors. The company was already moving from an analog TV to mixed analog and digital TV strategy but was under intense price pressure from rivals such as MediaTek, RDA Microelectronics and Newport Media, according to sources (see The cause of Telegent’s spectacular fall: China dunnit). Although Telegent's business model would appear to have broken, the company is still thought to have a cash pile, which could be as high as $60 million or $70 million, left over from the heady days when it was the market leader in mobile TV chips. Spreadtrum was rumored to have been in negotiations with Telegent but it was thought those talks had broken down, possibly over the price. It now appears that Spreadtrum is picking up a local design group in Shanghai, a portfolio of more than 70 patents granted or pending and a product line covering analog and digital mobile TV ICs, antenna technology and player and entertainment services software. Telegent's recently introduced product, the TLG12xx series includes integrated internal antenna technology. Telegent's investors include Index Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Northern Light Venture Capital, Walden International, Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley.