Kodak Completes Acquisition of the Image Sensor Business from National Semiconductor.ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Enhances Kodak's Capabilities to Provide CMOS Image Sensors Targeted to Consumer Markets Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : EK) has closed its acquisition of the Imaging business of National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM (Network and System Management) Running and controlling the networks and computer systems in an enterprise. See network management. ), which developed and manufactured complimentary metal oxide semiconductor See MOS. (electronics) Metal Oxide Semiconductor - (MOS) The three materials used to form a gate in the most common kind of Field Effect Transistor - a MOSFET. image sensor (CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S ) devices. Under the agreement, Kodak has acquired certain assets, including intellectual property and equipment, and has hired approximately 50 employees who previously supported National's Imaging business. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The Imaging business from National Semiconductor is now a part of Kodak's Image Sensor Solutions (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ) organization, a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance charged coupled device See CCD. (CCD CCD in full charge-coupled device Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device. ) image sensors and CIS technologies. Through this acquisition, Kodak has added additional resources and technologies (including advanced mixed-signal circuit design) that will further strengthen Kodak's ability to design next generation CIS devices that promise to deliver improved image quality with complex on-chip image processing circuitry. Combined with Kodak's existing CCD design and manufacturing capabilities, Kodak is positioned as one of the premier developers of both CCD and CIS devices. About Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging, a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). With sales of $13.3 billion in 2003, the company comprises several businesses: Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services; Graphic Communications Group, offering on-demand color printing and networking publishing systems consisting of three wholly owned subsidiaries: Encad, Inc., NexPress Solutions, and Kodak Versamark; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Display & Components, which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode Noun 1. organic light-emitting diode - a self-luminous diode (it glows when an electrical field is applied to the electrodes) that does not require backlighting or diffusers OLED displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers optics and imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Digital & Film Imaging Systems, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services. Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company. Editor's Note: For additional information about Kodak, visit our web site on the Internet at: www.kodak.com 2004 |
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