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News Release from: Intersil
13/10/2008

Intersil has announced that it will offer a demonstration of some of its newly acquired Kenet, Incorporated line of analogue-to-digital converters at electronica 2008 Trade Fair in Munich November 11-14, 2008. Intersil purchased Kenet, Incorporated, a privately held, fabless semiconductor company with leading technology in the design and manufacture of high speed, extremely low power data converters on September 30.

“Intersil remains committed to key strategic acquisitions to broaden our product portfolio,” said Dave Bell, Intersil’s Chief Executive Officer. “Kenet has developed the world’s highest performance analogue-to-digital converters with power consumption at a fraction of those currently on the market. This gives Intersil important technology leadership and access to many previously un-served markets.”

Kenet’s innovative FemtoCharge CMOS technology yields high performance and ultra-low power ADCs in an extremely small die area. The size and power advantages of Kenet’s data converters enable increased functionality in a variety of industrial and communications products such as portable digital oscilloscopes and software defined radios.

“The acquisition of Kenet immediately gives Intersil leadership in high-speed [ADC] markets,” said Bell. “As more and more products use digital signal processing technology, there’s a growing need for high-speed data converters to bridge to the analogue world.”