as nasdaq dspg industry voip telecommunications communication systems founded 1987 ; 29 years ago 1987 headquarters san jose california key people eliyahu ayalon chairman ofer elyakim ceo products ip telephony media gateways wireless chipsets mobile voip revenue us 225.48 million 2010 operating income 9.68 million 2010 profit 7.42 million 2010 number of employees 409 2009 website www.dspg.com dsp group s development center in israel dsp group inc. is a provider of chipsets for voip multimedia and digital cordless applications . founded in 1987 with headquarters in san jose california dsp group employs over 400 people at three us sites and offices in germany scotland israel india hong kong and japan . contents 1 history 2 products 3 organizational affiliations 4 external links 4.1 business data 5 references history edit dsp group was founded in 1987 by davidi gilo who served as the company s ceo and chairman until 1993 . 1 dsp group developed the world s first telephony answering device tad speech processor in 1989 . 2 the company entered the digital cordless industry with the acquisition of advanced micro devices amd 900 mhz technology in 1999 and the subsequent development of 900 mhz narrow band cordless and 2.4 ghz multi handset chipset solutions . 3 in 1993 one of the company s co founder and its cto shabtai adlersberg started a new company audiocodes with the initial investment provided by the dsp group . audiocodes grew to become a leading provider of voip solutions which had an initial public offering on the nasdaq in 1999 . in 2004 dsp group sold all its holdings in audiocodes making a significant profit on its initial investment . 4 in 1994 the dsp group had an initial public offering on the nasdaq . in 1996 dsp group spun off its cellular chip design and development division into a new company called dsp communications dspc . 5 dsp communications had an initial public offering on the nasdaq the same year . in 1999 intel bought dsp communications for 1.6 billion usd . 6 in november 2002 dsp s ip licensing division and the irish company parthus technologies plc were merged to form a new company called ceva inc. . 7 dsp group entered into the multimedia communications sector with the acquisition of teleman multimedia in 2003 . 8 incorporating voip and wi fi technologies obtained through the acquisition of voicepump and bermai dsp group entered the residential multimedia communications over broadband market with the 2006 development of a chipset integrating dect and wi fi technologies with an application processor . dsp group acquired nxp semiconductors cordless and voip terminals business in 2007 . 9 products edit dsp group provides chipsets for residential communications products in three areas connected multimedia screens always on home devices such as multimedia handsets wireless infotainment centers and internet radios voip cordless phones for the home and office home pbxs with dect access points and home gateways digital cordless cordless phones and headsets digital telephone answering machines and home monitoring automation devices organizational affiliations edit dect forum board member ; chair of us and market figure sub working groups european telecommunications standards institute etsi cat iq marketing working group etsi cat iq working groups wi fi alliance cablelabs home gateway initiative hgi external links edit dsp group home page business data edit dsp group at google finance dsp group at yahoo finance dsp group at hoover s dsp group at standard and poor s dsp group sec filings at edgar online dsp group ir site references edit davidi gilo executive profile & biography businessweek ferris g. ; aizner m. september 1989 design of a full featured solid state telephone answering device electronic engineering times 35 3 681 686 . doi 10.1109 30.44335 dsp group buys amd s rf activities electronic engineering times 1999 02 17 audiocodes ltd. annual report 2005 the 80s launching companies despite the crisis globes 3 may 2001 intel to buy wireless chipmaker for 1.6 billion cnet news october 14 1999 dsp group parthus to merge ip licensing businesses in new company electronic engineering times 4 5 2002 check date values in date help dsp group acquires most of teleman multimedia electronic engineering times 2003 05 19 dsp group and nxp semiconductors announce combination of cordless & voice over ip terminals businesses pr newswire may 14 2007 retrieved 2011 04 05 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dsp group & oldid 702932323 categories electronics companies of the united statescompanies based in san jose californiacompanies established in 1987companies listed on nasdaqsemiconductor companies of israelhidden categories cs1 errors dates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 february 2016 at 13 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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