你愿意收购泰景吗？展讯：Yes,I do

展讯通信公司日前宣布，它已签署一项最终协议收购泰景信息科技公司，后者是一家手机电视接受芯片、软件解决方案供应商。 展讯（中国上海）是无线通信基带和射频芯片的无晶圆厂开发商。本次并没有透露收购泰景的具体数字，但展讯表示，预计交易“不会对现金流、运营支出构成明显影响”。展讯表示，收购完成后，将尝试结合自己的基带IC和泰景的电视技术，以进一步提升产品性能，降低成本。 从展讯“不会造成明显影响”的声明看来，展讯收购泰景应该包括该公司手头既有的现金储备，并能得到其他资产，如专利和廉价的产品授权。 根据协议，在上海有近20名硬件和软件工程师，在收购之后都将加盟展讯通信。收购交易已经获得双方董事会批准，尚须获得展讯通信股东批准。 展讯总裁兼首席执行官李力游在一份声明中表示，“广播移动电视是一个受新兴市场消费者欢迎的项目，这是展讯的目标细分市场之一，我们正在这个市场快速增长。收购泰景购增强了我们对手机制造商到终端品牌商的整体供应链价值，并加速了我们的国际化进程。” 泰景信息（总部位于加州Sunnyvale）成立于2004年，主要研发产品为模拟和数字等射频集成电路。它的产品可以支持手机、便携设备、消费电子产品观看移动电视内容。泰景信息还是一家无晶圆厂半导体公司，为手机和其他便携式消费设备接收实时、免费无线接收的模拟和数字广播电视提供支持。泰景信息科技的单芯片电视解决方案解决了阻碍模拟广播电视移动接收这一长期存在的技术挑战，让制造商和运营商能够从广播电视的手机和便携式设备覆盖中受益。 该公司已经从模拟电视转型到混合模拟/数字电视，但面对联发科，锐迪科和Newport Media等公司的激烈价格压力（见《国际电子商情》文章——《泰景倒闭揭密：倒在中国市场价格战的血泊中》。虽然Telegent的商业模式已破裂，该公司是仍然有现金储备，可能高达6000-7000万美元，这些钱都是它当年作为移动电视芯片市场领导者时积攒下来的。 泰景信息目前已拥有或者在申请的技术专利超过70项，产品线包括模拟移动TV ICs、混合模拟/数字移动TV ICs、移动TV 内部天线技术、电视播放软件和娱乐服务软件（可以将应用软件和广告传输至售出的手机设备上）。泰景信息新产品线 ——TLG12xx 系列为移动TV市场引入了创新改革，包括集成内部天线技术、耗电量低且花费外部材料更少的单芯片模拟移动TV接收器。 Telegent的投资者包括Index Ventures，New Enterprise Associates，Northern Light风投，华登国际，美国斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校。 编译：Luffy Liu 本文授权编译自EE Times，版权所有，谢绝转载 参考英文原文：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.