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Sensors and Home Automation => Home automation => Topic started by: mparadis on December 11, 2017, 02:12:33 pm

Title: Silicon Labs purchases Z Wave tech from Sigma Designs
Post by: mparadis on December 11, 2017, 02:12:33 pm

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12138/silicon-labs-to-acquire-sigma-designs-get-zwave-ip

Title: Re: Silicon Labs purchases Z Wave tech from Sigma Designs
Post by: cswilly on December 12, 2017, 07:50:05 am

This is good news. Sigma Designs is struggling financially. Silicon Labs is growing and has the cash to invest in Z-Wave. Silicon Labs already has a stable of ZigBee chips for different solutions. We can hope they will do the same for Z-Wave.

Title: Re: Silicon Labs purchases Z Wave tech from Sigma Designs
Post by: mparadis on December 12, 2017, 01:18:06 pm

Assuming they maintain two different protocols...