New Conexant Eyes Broadcom Turf
Now that Dwight Decker has spun off Conexant Systems Inc.’s networking chip business, he says he’s looking to take on Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. and others in the chip market for high-speed modems, set-top boxes and other devices.
“I’m particularly excited because we see ourselves competing with Broadcom or TI or STMicroelectronics,” Decker recently told CMP Media LLC’s EETimes, a technology industry publication. “It might turn out over the next couple of years that there’s a lot of interest in exactly the kind of market that Conexant plans to focus on.”
After spinning off Mindspeed Technologies Inc. last month, Newport Beach-based Conexant said it plans to focus on chips used to link home devices to the Internet. The company adopted “Driving the Digital Home” as a catchphrase for its strategy.
