Soon, the company Silicon Hive, which in 2007 withdrew from the Philips Electronics will move under the leadership of Intel. The personnel of the company Silicon Hive is 70 people specializing in the development of technology for parallel computing, which are widely used in the "system on chip".

Headquartered in the Netherlands (Eindhoven), also has offices in Japan, India, Korea and the U.S..
Intel believes that the acquisition of Silicon Hive will provide an additional opportunity to expand the multimedia "systems on chips", the core of which is the Atom.

In turn, these chips are used in consumer electronics, and mobile platforms. If expectations are met, then, Intel will be able to compete with ARM solutions in the consumer market, tablets, and smartphones. At what cost purchase of Silicon Hive and when the transaction is completed, currently unknown.

Source: electronista.com