Intel’s been trying to break into a home entertainment marketplace for years, as well as while it’s done a little inroads, it’s also looking during a notable list of ho sound attempts which never managed to gain traction. Take the CE3100 processor, for instance — the integrate of years ago, a outfit seemed certain which this here chip would be powering each last living room box for the rest of perpetuity, as well as nowadays it’s hardly the household name. But this week, Intel has picked up Texas Instruments’ cable modem unit, that gives it a approach link into a really area it’s been perplexing to feat. The idea of a merger — which is scheduled to tighten in a fourth entertain of this year — is to combine TI’s Puma product lines with DOCSIS and Intel SoCs. Once that enchanting marriage takes place, Chipzilla intends to pull out complex set-top boxes, residential gateways as well as modem products, possibly even starting for the OEM artery. Details beyond which are few as well as distant mid, but you disbelief it’ll be as well long prior to the pickup begins to bear fruit. Show full PR textIntel to Acquire Texas Instruments’ Cable Modem Unit

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – (Business Wire) Intel Corporation currently announced it has sealed an agreement to acquire Texas Instruments’ wire modem product line. The purchase enhances Intel’s focus on a wire attention as well as related

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – (Business Wire) Intel Corporation currently announced it has sealed an agreement to acquire Texas Instruments’ cable modem product line. The squeeze enhances Intel’s concentration upon the wire industry and associated consumer wiring (CE) marketplace segments, where a company’s imagination in office building modernized system-on-chip (SoC) products, based upon Intel® Atom™ processors, will be practical.

Intel skeleton to combine Texas Instruments’ best-of-breed Puma product lines with a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) customary technology as well as Intel SoCs to broach modernized set top box, residential gateway and modem products for the cable industry. The design is to provide cable OEMs with an open and powerful platform for delivering innovative as well as differentiated products to use providers which urge a video, voice as well as interpretation content knowledge during home.

“Adding the talents of the Texas Instruments’ cable team to Intel’s efforts to bring the modernized technology to consumer wiring creates for a constrained combination,” said Bob Ferreira, general executive, Cable Segment, Intel’s Digital Home Group. “Intel is focused on delivering SoCs which provide a foundation for consumer wiring devices such as set top boxes, digital TVs, Blu-ray* front players, messenger boxes as well as associated devices. This merger specifically strengthens Intel’s product offerings for the continuum of cable gateway products as well as reinforces Intel’s one after another joining to the wire attention.”

All employees of Texas Instruments’ cable modem group received offers to join Intel during sites in their home countries, primarily Israel, as well as will turn partial of Intel’s Digital Home Group. Additional conditions of a transaction were not disclosed. The agreement is theme to regulatory review as well as prevalent shutting conditions. It is expected to tighten in the fourth entertain of 2010.