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MaxLinear
MaxLinear, Inc. is an American electronic hardware company. Founded in 2003, it provides highly integrated radio-frequency (RF) Analog signal, analog and Mixed-signal integrated circuit, mixed-signal semiconductor products for broadband communications applications. It is a New York Stock Exchange-traded company. History Founding and growth MaxLinear was founded in 2003 in Carlsbad, California, Carlsbad, California by "eight semiconductor industry veterans." Kishore Seendripu was co-founder, and would become chairman, president, and chief executive. Among other companies, in the past Seendripu had worked on the technical staff at Broadcom. Prior to 2009, the majority of the company's revenue was from the sale of its "mobile handset digital television receivers" which contained MaxLinear's digital television RF receiver chips, in Japan. The biggest customers for the product were Panasonic, Murata Manufacturing, Murata, and MTC Co. However, in 2009, the company sold more chips for u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exar Corporation
Exar Corporation was an American semiconductor manufacturer active from 1971 to 2017 as a subsidiary of the Japanese firm Rohm. It was acquired by MaxLinear Inc., MaxLinear in May 2017 and maintained as a wholly owned subsidiary for a short while. History The Japanese semiconductor company Rohm established Exar as a California-based American subsidiary in 1971. At that time, the Integrated circuit, integrated circuit boards Integrated circuit design, designed and manufactured by Rohm were Integrated circuit development, developed in the United States, and establishing an American subsidiary provided closer ties to the design process and provided a marketing foothold. In the early 1980s, when Exar was running sales figures of around annually, only about ⅓ of sales were through its parent, Rohm. Part of the success of Exar and Rohm in the early 1980s stemmed from proprietary technologies developed between the two. As a result of pressure from the U.S. Government for Japan to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entropic Communications
Entropic Communications is a provider of semiconductor products for the connected home. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in San Diego, California, US, and maintains offices worldwide. The fabless semiconductor company invented the MoCA® (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) home networking technology, creating Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Outdoor Unit (ODU) single-wire technology, and developing the industry's first ARM® processor and OpenGL graphics Set-top box (STB), System-on-a-Chip (SoC). Entropic completed its initial public offering on December 7, 2007, listing on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol ENTR. Entropic was acquired by MaxLinear for a total consideration of $287 million on February 3, 2015. Products Entropic is a semiconductor company in the connected home market and makes Integrated Circuit (IC) technology and platform software: * STB SoC Solutions: digital STB components and systems for satellite, terrestrial, cable and IP television ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlsbad, California
Carlsbad is a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California, United States. The city is north of downtown San Diego and south of downtown Los Angeles. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 114,746. Carlsbad is a popular tourist destination and home to many businesses in the golf industry. History Carlsbad's history began with the Luiseño people (the Spanish name given to them because of their proximity to Mission San Luis Rey), as well as some Kumeyaay in the La Costa area. Nearly every reliable fresh water creek had at least one native village, including one called Palamai. The site is located just south of today's Buena Vista Lagoon. The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolá expedition of 1769, met native villagers while camped on Buena Vista Creek. Another Luiseño villages within today's city of Carlsbad was a village at the mouth of the San Marcos Creek that the Kumey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation was an Aliso Viejo, California-based provider of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center and industrial markets. In February 2018, it was announced that Chandler, Arizona-based Microchip Technology was acquiring the company for over US$10 billion, pending regulatory approval. In May 2018, it was announced that Microchip had completed its acquisition of Microsemi. In August 2018, Microchip discovered that Microsemi shipped large orders to distributors on discount before the closing of the acquisition and had a culture of excessive extravagance, casting some doubt on the future prospect of the acquisition. History 1959 to 1970: Early years Microsemi was founded in February 1959 in Culver City, California as MicroSemiconductor. It incorporated in Delaware on September 27, 1960. A trade catalog and price lists from this early period can be found at the Smithsonian Institution. In March 1963, A. Feldon repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of share capital, stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listing (finance), listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states and so have associations and formal designations, which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation, though a corporation need not be a public company. In the United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xconomy
Xconomy was a media company providing news on business, life sciences, and technology{{cite web , title=Company Overview of Xconomy, Inc. , url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=36215051 , publisher=Bloomberg Business , date=nd , access-date=19 July 2015 focusing on the regions of Boston, Boulder/Denver, Detroit, New York City, Raleigh-Durham, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. The website was launched in June 2007 by founders Robert Buderi and Rebecca Zacks.{{cite news , author=Rafat Ali , date=February 11, 2009 , title=Business News Blog Network XConomy Gets Second Round Funding , url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/business-news-blog-network-xconomy-gets-second-round-funding/ , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023073713/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/25/paidcontent/main4631868.shtml , archive-date=23 October 2009 , publisher=CBS News , agency=paidcontent.org , url-status=live , access-date=30 June 2021 Xconomy content ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvell Technology Group
Marvell Technology, Inc. is an American company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, which develops and produces semiconductors and related technology. Founded in 1995, the company had more than 6,500 employees as of 2024, with over 10,000 patents worldwide, and an annual revenue of $5.5 billion for fiscal year, fiscal 2024. History Marvell was founded in 1995 by Dr. Sehat Sutardja, his wife Weili Dai, and his brother Pantas Sutardja. They worked on designing a CMOS-based read channel for disk drives as their first product. Seagate Technology became their first customer. The company's initial public offering of 6 million shares on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol MRVL on June 27, 2000 (near the end of the dot-com bubble) raised $90 million and was priced $15 per share. In April 2016, CEO Sehat Sutardja and President Weili Dai were ousted from their posts after activist investor Starboard Value, Starboard Value fund took a roughly seven percent stake in the company. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego, California
San Diego ( , ) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a population of over 1.4 million, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth-most populous city in the United States. San Diego is the county seat, seat of San Diego County. It is known for its mild Mediterranean climate, extensive List of beaches in San Diego County, beaches and List of parks in San Diego, parks, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a wireless, electronics, List of hospitals in San Diego, healthcare, and biotechnology development center. Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego has been referred to as the ''Birthplace of California'', as it was the first site visited and settled by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. In 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California, 200 years later. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venture Capital
Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to start-up company, startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for Equity (finance), equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing start-ups in the hopes that some of the companies they support will become successful. Because Startup company, startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. Start-ups are usually based on an innovation, innovative technology or business model and often come from high technology industries such as information technology (IT) or biotechnology. Pre-seed and seed money, seed rounds are the initial stages of funding for a startup company, typically occurring earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UMC Capital
UMC may refer to: Organizations Companies * Ukrainian Mobile Communications, former name of Vodafone Ukraine, a mobile operator in Ukraine * Union Metallic Cartridge Company, a subsidiary of Remington Arms * United Microelectronics Corporation, Taiwanese semiconductor company, also its American subsidiary Unicorn Microelectronics Corporation * Universal Media Corporation, a Sharp Corporation manufacturing subsidiary in Poland * Urban Movie Channel, former name of Allblk, a streaming service for Black TV and film Medical facilities * United Medical Center, a hospital in Washington, DC, US * Ljubljana University Medical Centre, a hospital in Slovenia * University Medical Center, a hospital in partnership with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas, US * University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, in Las Vegas, Nevada, US * University Medical Center (Tucson, Arizona), at the University of Arizona in Tucson, US * University Memorial Center, at the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battery Ventures
Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm. Founded in 1983, the firm makes venture-capital and private-equity investments in markets across the globe from offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Israel and London. Since inception, the firm has raised over $13 billion and is now investing its fourteenth funds, Battery Venture XIV and Battery Ventures Select Fund II, with a combined capitalization of $3.8 billion. History Battery Ventures was founded in 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts by Rick Frisbie, Howard Anderson and Bob Barrett. Since its inception, Battery has raised more than $13 billion in capital through the following fourteen funds and corresponding side funds. The firm has offices in Boston, San Francisco, Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, London, and New York City. Investments As of 2021, Battery has invested in more than 450 companies, 69 of which have gone public and another 185 have merged or been acquired. The firm's current investment fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission Ventures
Mission (from Latin 'the act of sending out'), Missions or The Mission may refer to: Geography Australia *Mission River (Queensland) Canada *Mission, British Columbia, a district municipality *Mission, Calgary, Alberta, a neighbourhood * Okanagan Mission, a neighbourhood in Kelowna, British Columbia, commonly called "the Mission" *Mission River, a short river located at the delta of the Kaministiquia River of northern Ontario, Canada * Mission Ridge (British Columbia), a ridge in BC *Mission Ridge Ski Area, a Ski Area near the ridge in BC *Mission Lake, a lake in Saskatchewan United States * Mission, Delaware, an unincorporated community * Mission, Kansas, a city * Mission, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Mission, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Mission, Oregon, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Mission, South Dakota, a city * Mission, Texas, a city * Mission District, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
