The Silicon Hive team was incubated by Philips in 2003 to develop parallel processing technology for systems-on-chip, acquired by Intel in 2011, all but dissolved in 2018 and now finally disbanded by the US chipmaker.
With the shuttering of its competence center at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Intel has closed the book on Silicon Hive. The chipmaker acquired the site when it took over the Philips spinoff in 2011. Plans to disband the team were partially shelved at the last moment in 2018, but last Summer, the axe fell after all, rendering 25 employees jobless.
The competence center in Eindhoven focused on camera subsystems for mobile phones, tablets and lightweight laptops. Together with other sites around the world, it developed so-called image processing units on Intel SoCs. Under the hood, these IPUs make use of Silicon Hive’s programmable processor technology (link in Dutch).
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