ASE Technologies USA Aquires Knoxville Design Center and Digital Receiver Line From TV/COM; Includes the NDS IRD Technology and License to Produce.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 1999-- ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. Technologies (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of ASE Technologies Inc., which is a major designer and manufacturer in consumer electronics, announces the acquisition of the QAM (1) (Quality Assessment Measurement) A system used to measure and analyze voice transmission. (2) (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) A modulation technique that employs both phase modulation (PM) and amplitude modulation (AM). and QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) A phase modulation technique that transmits two bits in four modulation states. See PSK and phase modulation. digital receiver product line from TV/COM and personnel from TV/COM's Knoxville Design Center. This acquisition also provides ASE the technology and license to produce the NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services commercial Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (French) IRD Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand's tax revenue collection department) IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder ), one of TV/COM's largest contracts. Once the prime contractor for the TV/COM QAM receiver, ASE now has the capabilities and expertise to continue developing the digital receiver line with support from the excellent resources of TV/COM's Knoxville Design Center. This product line will allow ASE to offer low-cost, high-value set-top boxes focused on world standards -- MPEG-2 and DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. -- to valued customers throughout the world. "This acquisition will allow ASE Technologies to strengthen its commitment to the Digital Receiver market and expand its product line portfolio," said Roger Chang, chairman of ASE Technologies and ASE Technologies (USA) Inc. About ASE Technologies Inc. ASE Technologies Inc., is a subsidiary of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc., a Taiwanese based company and the world's second largest independent semiconductor/silicon wafer packaging and testing company. ASE Technologies has been the major designer and manufacturer of notebook computer, set-top box and LCD monitor/PC for various major companies since 1992. |
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