Wireless Solutions will become National Semiconductor's development centre in Sweden. So far, the American firm has had only a sales organisation in Sweden. In the last year, National Semiconductor has bought several other European companies and turned them into development centres.
The price tag for Wireless Solutions reads $23.5m. This does not include the development of the Multi Carrier Power Amplifier. This important component for 3G basestations Allgon keeps for itself. However, National Semiconductor takes over the development of products for wireless computer networks and Bluetooth. So far, Wireless Solutions has not been using chips from National Semiconductor to any great extent. However, this will now change and the Swedish company will therefore end its collaboration with several other suppliers.
Gittan Cedervall