Texas Instruments (TI) acquired Radia Communications, a start-up developing radio frequency (RF) semiconductor, subsystem, signal processing and networking technologies for 802.11 WLAN multi-band/multi-mode radios. TI and Radia have already developed joint reference designs for 802.11b/g and 802.11a/b/g products as partners, and have customers signed up for the TI and Radia components in those reference designs. TI said its customers now have a single source for their WLAN media access controller (MAC), baseband and RF. Radia is based in Sunnyvale, California and has approximately 50 employees. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- In June 2003, Texas Instruments began shipping its 802.11g chipset solution to customers. The company said current TI customers, SMC Networks and U.S. Robotics, and new customers, NETGEAR, Samsung, and Sitecom, would be using TI WLAN technology for their 802.11g and multi-mode Wi-Fi products.