A $494M bet on bandwidth: Semtech places its chips on Canadian firm
Ontario-based Gennum makes chips used by video firms for high-integrity signals.
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TrueVision Systems has inked a deal with the world’s second-biggest maker of surgical microscopes.
Read More →Semtech to buy Canadian firm for $494M
Camarillo-based semiconductor firm Semtech plans to buy a Canadian chipmaker for $494 million. The agreement to buy Burlington, Ontario-based Gennum is Semtech’s second large acquisition since 2009, when it closed a deal to buy Irvine-based Sierra Monolithics for $180 million. The Gennum deal fits neatly into the strategic plan put in place by Semtech’s leadership Read More →
Read More →The future of health care: Digital records and remote robots
People don’t have to die because of where they live or because the can’t access their own medical records. That was the theme of the Jan. 18 program of the MIT Central Coast Enterprise Forum. Three area technology companies, InTouch Health, BioIQ and Active Life Scientific presented at the Santa Barbara event. Michael Chan of Read More →
Read More →Web wars: Impulse brings faster broadband to Santa Barbara
Impulse Advanced Communications is targeting mid-sized and small businesses with a new broadband offering in the Santa Barbara area.
Read More →Startup scores Amgen exec
PBS Biotech, a Camarillo-based startup focused on biotechnology equipment founded by a former Amgen scientist, has added major firepower to its advisory board with a key former Amgen executive. George Morrow oversaw global operations for Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, the world’s largest biotech firm, for eight years before retiring last year. He came to Amgen after Read More →
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