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BY IAN CAMERON
Communications IC maker Broadcom, fresh from having completed its acquisition of Bristol-based Element 14, is to buy Israeli fabless semiconductor company VisionTech.
VisionTech makes MPEG2 video/audio compression and decompression chips for consumer applications.
Its latest encoder, Kfir-2, has been adopted by set-top box manufacturers including Motorola, Scientific-Atlanta, Pace Micro Technology, Microsoft WebTV and personal video recording (PVR) company Replay TV.
VisionTech will form the core of Broadcom...