Xceive

About Xceive

Xceive Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company that developed single-chip silicon tuners for television and PC-TV applications. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company specialized in creating RF-to-baseband integrated circuits (ICs) that could receive both analog and digital television signals worldwide. Jean-Louis Bories served as the President and CEO. The company's technology was aimed at replacing traditional, bulky "can" tuners with a smaller, more efficient, and cost-effective solution.

Xceive's primary products were its universal TV tuner ICs, such as the XC4000 and XC5000 series. These chips were designed to be a "one-design-fits-all" solution for television manufacturers, reducing the need to manage different components for various global broadcast standards like NTSC, PAL, ATSC, and DVB-T. The tuners featured an on-board Digital Signal Processor (DSP) which allowed for high performance, tight specification tolerances, and unique features like QuickTune for rapid channel scanning and ChannelVista for displaying multiple channels simultaneously. This integration of the DSP, SAW filters, and demodulation circuitry into a single small package significantly lowered the bill of materials (BOM) for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

As a venture-backed startup, Xceive successfully raised capital through multiple funding rounds, including a $10.5 million Series B in 2004 and over $16 million in a Series E round in 2010. The company's business model was based on designing these high-performance tuner chips and having them manufactured by partners like Jazz Semiconductor using a 0.18-micron SiGe BiCMOS process. Its clients were major television manufacturers, including Amtran (for its Vizio brand TVs) and LG, who used Xceive's chips in a wide range of flat-panel LCD and plasma TVs. On October 10, 2011, Xceive was acquired by Intel Corporation, a move that integrated its tuner technology into Intel's broader semiconductor portfolio.