Kudelski Group sells Abilis to Ali
October 25, 2012
The Kudelski Group and ALi Corporation, an IC design company based in Taiwan, have entered into an agreement under which the ALi acquires Abilis Systems from Kudelski. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, Abilis is a fabless semiconductor company providing RF modulators, secure media processors and broadcast-to-IP solutions.
Kudelski and ALi have put in place a security framework whereby ALi will actively support Kudelski in protecting the pay TV content across the set-top box value chain. Kudelski and ALi agree to integrate Nagra On-Chip Security (“NOCS”) onto ALi’s lines of chipsets, resulting in a secure, cost-effective chipset platform powering innovative set-top boxes and modules for pay TV operators.
ALi envisions that set-top boxes powered with ALi chips and embedded with NOCS will be available to operators in 2013.