SiRF no more

Feb 11, 2009 gps navigation, misc news

csr-sirfUK based CSR, the people behind the eGPS technology, and the BlueCore BC7830 which we talked about earlier this month has now bought SiRF. Apparently the transaction totaled to $132.7 million.

CSR and SiRF today entered into a conditional agreement under which SiRF will merge with CSR, increasing the scale of CSR in the high-growth GPS technology market and strengthening CSR’s position as a global leader in both Bluetooth and GPS.

I guess they’ll be competing with Broadcom which just announced their version of GPS+Blutooth+FM combo chip… via

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