Techwell is an American fabless semiconductor company

Fabless semiconductor company

A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the fabrication or "fab" of the devices to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry...

 that develops chips for video devices such as video recorder

Digital video recorder

A digital video recorder , sometimes referred to by the merchandising term personal video recorder , is a consumer electronics device or application software that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card or other local or networked mass storage device...

s, automobile dashboards, rearview mirrors, and rear-seat LCD screens. The company is based in San Jose

San Jose, California

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, California

California

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 and has 200 employees. Techwell was acquired by Intersil

Intersil

Intersil Corporation is an American company that specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of high-performance analog semiconductors for four high-growth markets — Communications, Computing, High End Consumer and Industrial.-Company history:...

on March 22, 2010, for US$370 million. Techwell has offices in the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.