Friday, January 5, 2007

Silicon Image Buys Chip Design Firm

Sunnyvale-based Silicon Image has acquired sci-worx GmbH, a German provider of semiconductor design services for the multimedia, communications, and networking sectors. The deal, which was worth approximately $13.5M in cash, is targeted at expanding Silicon Image's system-on-a-chip design capability for high definition content. sci-worx employes 172 employees, and was previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infinion Technologies AG.