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Wireless - Friday, December 21, 2007

Qualcomm Buys Noise Cancellation's Softmax

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Qualcomm has acquired SoftMax. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. San Diego-based SoftMax makes voice algorithms for signal separation, echo cancellation, and signal processing, enabling mobile devices to separate a person's voice from background noises. It runs on cell phones, VoIP phones, and laptops. Broadcom recently began offering SoftMax's noise reduction technology on its Bluetooth headset platform.

SoftMax was spunout of The Salk Institute and the University of California, San Diego in 1989 and is headed by founder Te-Won Lee.

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