CEVA Inc
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| Type | Public (NASDAQ: CEVA, LSE: CVA) |
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| Founded | 2002 (created through the combination of the DSP IP licensing division of DSPG and Parthus Technologies plc) |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, USA |
| Key people | Gideon Wertheizer, CEO Yaniv Arieli, CFO Issachar Ohana, EVP, WW Sales |
| Industry | Semiconductors, Semiconductor Intellectual Property, Electronics |
| Products | Digital Signal Processors, Multimedia, VoIP, Bluetooth, High Speed Serial Communications |
| Revenue | $32.5 million USD (2006)[1] |
| Employees | ~200 (2007)[2] |
| Slogan | The DSP Powerhouse |
| Website | www.ceva-dsp.com |
CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA, LSE: CVA), is a leading licensor of innovative intellectual property (IP) platform solutions and DSP cores for wireless, consumer and multimedia applications. For more than fifteen years, CEVA has been licensing DSP cores and platforms to leading semiconductor and electronics companies worldwide.
CEVA licenses a family of programmable DSP cores, DSP-based subsystems and application-specific platforms including multimedia, audio, Voice-over-IP (Internet Protocol), Bluetooth and Serial ATA (SATA).
CEVA’s technology is licensed to leading electronics companies as Intellectual Property ( IP), which in turn manufacture, market and sell application-specific integrated circuits (“ ASICs”) and application-specific standard products (“ ASSPs”) based on CEVA technology to systems companies for incorporation into a wide variety of end products. CEVA's IP is primarily deployed in high volume markets, including wireless handsets (e.g. cellular baseband, multimedia solutions and Bluetooth), portable multimedia (e.g. portablevideo players and portable audio players), home entertainment (e.g. DVD), storage markets (e.g. hard disk drives) and communications markets (e.g. high-speed serial storage and Voice-over-IP solutions).
The Company's revenue mix contains IP licensing fees, per-unit royalties and support fees. We have built a strong network of licensing partners who rely on our technology to deploy their silicon solutions. Today, CEVA's technology is widely licensed and powers some of the world’s leading wireless and consumer electronics brands including Atmel, Broadcom, Chipnuts, Freescale, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Infineon, Marvell, National Semiconductor, NXP, Oki, Renesas, ROHM, Samsung, Sharp, Silicon Laboratories, Sony, Spreadtrum, STMicroelectronics, Thomson, Zoran and more. In 2006 CEVA licensees shipped over 190 million CEVA-powered chips, an increase of 45% over 2005 shipments of 131 million units.
CEVA was created through the combination of the DSP IP licensing division of DSPG and Parthus Technologies plc in November 2002. The Company has over 200 employees worldwide, with research and development facilities in Israel, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and sales and support offices throughout Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Israel and the United States.
For more information, visit www.ceva-dsp.com
