Brooktree Corporation was an American company founded in 1983 by Henry Katzenstein to commercialize a faster hardware architecture for digital to analog converters, three to eight times faster than the converters then on the market.

Brooktree Corporation
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded1983
Headquarters
USA
A Brooktree video decoder
A Brooktree RAMDAC

The company was bought out by Rockwell Semiconductor in 1996, which became Conexant (NasdaqCNXT) in 1998.[1]

Brooktree's best-known products included IC chipsets such as the Bt8x8 family. These were frequently used in TV tuner cards.

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  1. ^ "Chipdir". 080507 xs4all.nl Archived 2008-01-04 at the Wayback Machine