Flextronics buys Peripheral Imaging/Agilent Technologies camera-module business
FEBRUARY 25--Peripheral Imaging Corporation (PIC; www.p-imaging.com) has been acquired by Flextronics Inc. of San Jose, CA (www.flextronics.com). Organizationally, PIC will retain its identity as a wholly owned subsidiary, with near-term plans to relocate its headquarters and engineering staff to the Flextronics campus in San Jose. The company will function as an independent business unit of Flextronics Semiconductor--where the operations transition is expected to be virtually transparent to the marketplace.
Flextronics Semiconductor, with several design centers, specializes in ASIC products, including full system on chip (SoC), standard cell, and gate array ASICs (digital, analog, and mixed signal). Touting more than 2000 successful designs since 1992, Flextronics Semiconductor is a supplier of FPGA conversions and ASIC retargeting services.
PIC is a designer and manufacturer of high-performance contact image sensor modules, utilizing state-of-the-art CMOS active-pixel technology. Black/white and RGB color sensors featuring resolutions from 200 to 1200 dpi are offered as chips and fully integrated modules for use in many industrial, consumer, and business document-scanning applications. PIC also provides custom development and foundry services for a variety of image sensor signal processing products, including visible, IR and X-ray sensitive imagers.
Flextronics will benefit from the acquisition by gaining valuable in-house CMOS image sensor design capability, which should open many new opportunities and assist in strengthening existing relationships with a variety of major OEMs.
Flextronics has also completed the acquisition of the Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA; www.agilent.com) camera-module business. The close of the transaction gives Flextronics additional access to tier-one customers and complements the company's overall strategy to play a major design role in all of the products it builds, ships, and services for OEM customers.