DSP Group, Inc. was an American company that manufactured chipsets for VoIP, multimedia, and digital cordless applications. Founded in 1987 with headquarters in San Jose, California, DSP Group employed over 400 people at three US sites and offices in Germany, Scotland, Israel, India, Hong Kong and Japan until it was acquired by Synaptics.
History
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 technology.[3]
In 1993 one of the company's co-founders and its CTO Shabtai Adlersberg started a new company AudioCodes