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Kodak Acquires Lumisys; Leica Geo Acquires Cyra
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Kodak Acquires Lumisys; Leica Geo Acquires Cyra
January 2001
Eastman Kodak, adding to their recent string of imaging buy-ups,
will acquire Lumisys, Inc., the well-known maker of x-ray film
scanners and desktop computed radiography systems, via a stock
buy of an estimated $39 million; the acquisition includes the
"AuntMinnie.com" radiology web portal.
The GIS-oriented Leica Geosystems
AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) which went public last summer, has
acquired Cyra Technologies (Oakland, CA), maker of the Cyrax 3D
Laser Scanning System and related visualization software.
Display and image processor hardware
maker Pixelworks Inc. (Tualatin, OR) has acquired semiconductor
designer Panstera Inc. for a reported $127.4 million in stock;
synergies are expected tin the lower end desktop LCD display market.
Pixelworks has also teamed with Analog Devices (Norwood, MA) to
work on mixed-signal chips for television and multimedia projector
systems.
And in another chip deal aimed
at emerghing video media, Broadcom has agreed to buy the innovative
Israeli video hardware maker VisionTech Ltd. for some $677 million
in stock; VisionTech, as we've reported, is the firm that's specialized
in personalized digital video recording techs...And CMOS sensor
maker Photon Vision Systems (Cortland, NY) has set up a new Imaging
Solutions Group to marry image processors to sensors for imaging
"systems on a set."
Edmund Scientific (Barrington,
NJ) has acquired optical component maker Plummer Precision Optics
(Pennsburg, PA)...StockerYale (Salem, NH) has announced that they've
changed the name of their Montreal-based subsidiary Lasiris to
StockerYale Canada Inc.; "Lasiris" will remain a product
line name since it's well-established in the machine vision market.
