Conexant

The Conexant Systems, Inc. is a U.S. manufacturer of integrated circuits (ICs ) and is the aerospace and defense manufacturer Rockwell International emerged from the semiconductor division " Rockwell Semiconductor Systems " 1999. The company was listed in the Nasdaq Composite.

The headquarters are located in Newport Beach, California, in addition, there are several development departments in the U.S., China and India.

On February 28, 2013 Conexant Systems to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of U.S. bankruptcy law, after it was acquired in April 2011 for 282.2 million U.S. dollars from the private equity firm Golden Gate Capital and early 2013, a restructuring plan, among other things, the resale of the company was set up providing for the investor George Soros. The business will initially be carried on, as well as the subsidiaries that were not affected by the bankruptcy.

Products

Conexant develops and produces primarily large scale integrated circuits, so-called application-specific integrated circuits ( ASICs) from the field of digital image processing, video compression ( MPEG), for modems and manufactures ICs for TV cards.

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