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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Stan Boland (President and CEO) |
| Parent | Nvidia Corporation |
| Website | http://www.icerasemi.com |
Icera Inc. is a British multinational fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Nvidia Corporation. It has developed soft modem chipsets for the mobile devices market, including mobile broadband datacards, USB sticks, and embedded modems for smartphones, laptops, netbooks, tablets, e-books and other mobile broadband devices.
Icera has research and development sites in China, France, the United Kingdom and the United States and customer engineering and sales offices in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United States and Europe.[1]
On 9 May 2011 it was announced that Nvidia Corporation had agreed to acquire Icera for US$367 million in cash from its venture capital owners, which included Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Balderton Capital and DFJ Esprit.[2][3]
On 5 May 2015 Nvidia Corporation announced that Icera would wind down its operations.[4]
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- ^ "NVIDIA to Wind Down Icera Modem Operations". Nvidia. Retrieved 28 June 2016.