Entropic Communications acquiring Trident unit

繼我的前公司Zoran
Trident也掰了
曾經是最大的電視晶片製造商
阿彌陀佛

到底是因為MediaTek和mStar太強猛了
還是電視晶片的市場已經撐不起這麼多廠商了呢

放眼望去
好像還是有很多二線的IC設計公司還在奮鬥電視晶片
如凌陽、瑞昱
Good luck....


Sorrento Mesa-based Entropic Communications said Wednesday it will spend $55 million to acquire assets from Trident Microsystems Inc., which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Delaware court.

Entropic (Nasdaq: ENTR) makes chips for home entertainment networks. Sunnyvale-based Trident (Nasdaq: TRID), which has asked the bankruptcy court to approve the sale, develops semiconductors for digital televisions and set-top boxes. It is the set-top box operations that are being sold to Entropic. Set-top box technology is used for TV programming, Internet applications, 3-D games, and Web browsing.

Entropic said the acquisition would "bring together two highly complementary technologies, product lines, and teams" and expand the market it serves. Entropic technology helps support high definition-quality video and other multimedia digital content such as movies, games and photos.

Trident said it plans to continue to operate its businesses while it goes through the bankruptcy approval process regarding this sale and will look for "strategic alternatives" for its other business units.

Trident's share price ended the day at just six cents per share -- down 13 cents, or 68.4 percent, on the day. The six-cent price was the low for Trident's stock during the past 52 weeks. The stock topped out at $1.68 during that timeframe.

Entropic's share price ended at $5.08 Wednesday -- down 42 cents, or 7.63 percent, on the day. The stock has ranged from $3.36 to $13.96 during the past 52 weeks.

Entropic posted $4.64 million in net income on $51.46 million in revenues for the quarter ended last Sept. 30, compared to $11.27 million in net income on $32.53 million in revenues for the comparable period a year earlier.

For the first nine months of last year, Entropic registered $24.25 million in net income on $101.87 million in revenues -- compared to $16.12 million in net income on $74.13 million in revenues during the like period in 2010.

By contrast, Trident posted a net loss of $39.11 million on $80.88 million in revenues for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of $17.51 million on $176.56 million in revenues for the comparable period in 2010.

For the first nine months of last year, Trident recorded a loss of $106.15 million on $237.99 million in revenues. That was atop a loss of $75.11 million on $438.62 million in revenues for the comparable period a year earlier.

The Associated Press contirbuted to this report.