Date: 26/07/2011

Mindspeed acquires W-CDMA expert IPG Communications

Mindspeed Technologies Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of IPG Communications Inc.

According to Mindspeed, IPG is specialized in advanced signal processing technologies for wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) 3GPP standard release 8, which delivers cost and power advantages and also it has designed a dual-mode turbo decoder which combines W-CDMA and long-term evolution (LTE) standards, reduces the memory and logic complexity for the system-on-chip (SoC) as compared with standard decoders.

"The team at IPG has established a strong reputation for exceptional communications systems design, software-defined radio (SDR) expertise and dual-mode wireless development," said Thomas Medrek, Mindspeed's senior vice president and general manager, communications convergence processing. "The opportunity to add this highly-regarded team to our own 3G and LTE wireless baseband development efforts will enhance our position in the mobile infrastructure sector as we continue to win next-generation base station designs around the world."

"This is an exciting time to be joining Mindspeed and contributing to the expansion of the Transcede family of wireless baseband processors," said Yuan Li, co-founder and chief executive officer of IPG. "Mindspeed has established an industry benchmark with the Transcede 4000 single-chip solution for LTE picocells, and we look forward to joining their world class development team and participating in the design of the next generation of base station processors to serve tomorrow's heterogeneous 3G and 4G networks."