Date: 13/03/2011

Cavium Networks completes acquisition of Celestial Semiconductor

Cavium Networks have completed their acquisition of China-based privately held Celestial Semiconductor on March 4th, finalizing an agreement that was announced January 31st 2011.

Celestial provides a family of ARM-based high-performance SoCs with HD quality video processing, multi-source video input and multi-format video playback for range of devices such as set top boxes (STB), IPTV, Interactive TVs, Net multimedia players, and portable media players being deployed by cable and telecom media service providers, Interactive cable operators, multiple system operators (MSO) in China and other emerging geographies.