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SiRF no more

Feb 11, 2009 gps navigation, misc news

UK 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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