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Alta Devices

New technology for high efficiency solar energy

Atheros Communications (acuired by QCOM)
ATHR

Sunnyvale, CA


Atheros Communications is the leading developer of networking technologies for secure, high-performance wireless local area networks. As the industry innovator and market-share leader in wireless OFDM technology compliant with the IEEE 802.11 specifications, Atheros is driving transparent connections among electronic devices in the office, home and on the road.

Genoa (acquired by Finisar)
FNSR

Milpitas, CA

Genoa, which developed semiconductor technology for optical telecommunications, was acquired by Finisar in 2003.

 

Iridigm Display Corp. (acquired by Qualcomm)
QCOM

San Francisco, CA

Iridigm Display Corporation produces revolutionary reflective displays for a variety of mobile device applications. Iridigm was acquired by Qualcomm in 2004.

 

Luxtera

Pasadena, CA

Luxtera is developing breakthrough photonics products. The company's technology is rooted in Caltech developments in the field of nanophotonics: optical structures an order of magnitude smaller than those traditionally used in integrated optical devices.

 

Magnum Semiconductor

Fremont, CA

Magnum Semiconductor is a spinout of the Cirrus Logic Video Division which pioneered MPEG video recording and enables high volume, affordable DVD Recorders.

 

Microdisplay Corporation

San Pablo, CA

Microdisplay Corporation develops, manufactures and markets low cost, high-performance, single panel Liquid-Crystal-On-Silicon displays.

 

Paradise Electronics (acquired by Genesis Microchip)

San Jose, CA

Paradise Electronics, a developer and supplier of graphics IC's was acquired by Genesis Microchip (GNSS) in 1999.

 

PulseCore Semiconductor (acquired by ON Semiconductor)
ONNN

Campbell, CA

PulseCore Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company focused primary on PLL based clock synthesizers, fanout buffers, and spread spectrum EMI reduction. www.pulsecoresemi.com

 

Scintera

Santa Clara, CA

Scintera is pioneering a new paradigm in high frequency signal processing.   The demand for ever higher bandwidths and spectral efficiency presents the need for complex signal processing at high speed and low power.  Scintera’s team is commercializing their Gigahertz Signal ProcessorTM platform, a breakthrough technology that changes the rules of complex signal processing. Implemented in standard CMOS, Scintera’s platform performs analog signal processing at the RF carrier frequency enabling lower power, cost and complexity.

 

Silicon Image
SIMG

Cupertino, CA

Silicon Image (SIMG) provides semiconductor solutions that, among other applications, enable the all-digital connectivity between computers and digital flat panel monitors.

 

Summit Microelectronics

Campbell, CA

Summit designs and develops semiconductors that manage the power functions in communication systems equipment that forms the backbone of the networking and Internet infrastructure.

 

SuVolta

SuVolta is developing low power CMOS semiconductor technology.


 

TZero Technologies

Sunnyvale, CA

TZero is a fabless semiconductor company developing chips for ultra-wideband communications.

 

Ubicom

Mountain View, CA

 Ubicom is developing low-cost embedded microprocessors and software platforms for embedded communications applications.

Unity Semiconductor

Sunnyvale, CA

Unity is developing next-generation memory technology.