Integrated Device Technology

Last updated
Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary
Nasdaq: IDTI
Industry Semiconductor industry
Founded1980;44 years ago (1980)
Headquarters
San Jose, California
,
United States
Key people
Sailesh Chittipeddi
(President & CEO)
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$ 728.24 million
(APR 2 2017)
Decrease2.svg US$ 110.34 million
(APR 2 2017)
Decrease2.svg US$ 110.48 million
(APR 2 2017)
Total assets Increase2.svg US$ 1.18 billion
(APR 2 2017)
Total equity Increase2.svg US$ 773.66 million
(APR 2 2017)
Number of employees
1,623
(APR 2 2017)
Parent Renesas Electronics
Footnotes /references
[1] [2]

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), was an American semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose, California. The company designed, manufactured, and marketed low-power, high-performance mixed-signal semiconductor products for the advanced communications, computing, and consumer industries. The company marketed its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Founded in 1980, the company began as a provider of complementary metal-oxide semiconductors (CMOS) for the communications business segment and computing business segments. The company focused on three major areas: communications infrastructure (wireless and wired), high-performance computing, and advanced power management. Between 2018 and 2019, IDT was acquired by Renesas Electronics.

Contents

Business segments

The communications segment produces communication clocks, serial RapidIO products for wireless base station infrastructure applications, radio frequency products, digital logic products, first-in and first-out (FIFO) memories, integrated communications processors, static random-access memory (SRAM) products, and telecommunications semiconductor products. [3] This segment markets its products to the enterprise, data center, and wireless markets.

The computing segment provides timing products, PCI Express switching and bridging products, high-performance server memory interfaces, multi-port products, signal integrity products, and PC audio and video products. [4] This segment's computing products are designed for desktop, notebook, sub-notebook, storage, and server applications.

The consumer segment provides products for digital TVs, smartphones, and gaming consoles through touch controllers, timing products, multi-port memory, audio, and power management devices. [5]

History

IDT's first product was the first low-power, high-speed CMOS-based 6116 static random-access memory (SRAM) device, released in 1981, followed by the first CMOS FIFO introduced in 1982. [6]

In 1993, IDT entered the PC clock market with a family of devices (CV104, CV105, CV107, and CV109) focusing on desktop computer platforms. IDT planned to expand its market by producing a suite of PC clock devices that serve next-generation notebook and desktop computing platforms.

In the early 2000s IDT introduced its first embedded microprocessor, the RC32334. The RC32334 was the first in the family of embedded processors targeted to communication applications. A year later, IDT introduced the industry's first network search engine. [7]

In 2003, IDT announced its entry into the PC clock market. The company shifted its initial PC clock family to products serving current-generation desktop, notebook, and server platforms.

In 2004, IDT continued to expand its business by acquiring ZettaCom and Internet Machines Corporation, allowing IDT to enter the serial switching industry. Rather than continue to evolve ZettaCom's full line of existing physical-layer switching and traffic management chips, IDT converted ZettaCom's operation into a new serial switching division. With the acquisition of Internet Machines, IDT was able to accelerate its entry into the standards-based serial-switching market with the addition of PCI Express technology licensed from Internet Machines. [8]

By the mid-2000s IDT had developed a single-chip clocking device for notebook utilizing the Intel Centrino platform, [9] a jitter attenuator for PCI Express applications, and a PCI Express interconnect to manage all communications in high density blade systems.

In July 2009, IDT and Micron Technology entered an alliance to develop PCI Express Solid-State Drive technologies for the server, storage and embedded markets. During this alliance, IDT and Micron co-developed enterprise flash controllers with PCIe host interface optimized for Micron's flash devices and future generation RealSSD solid-state drives. [10]

Mergers and acquisitions

In 1999 [11] (or 2002 [12] ), IDT acquired Quality Semiconductor, a provider of high-performance logic and networking semiconductor products, in an all-stock deal.

In 2001, IDT acquired Newave Inc., a Chinese semiconductor firm, to accelerate its investment in the growing Asian semiconductor industry and telecommunications market. Newave became a subsidiary of IDT through a cash-for-stock merger. [13]

In April 2001 IDT acquired Solidum Systems, an Ottawa-based fabless semiconductor company. [14]

In April 2004, IDT acquired ZettaCom, a serial switching and bridging semiconductor company, for $35 million. This enabled IDT to be one of the few communications IC suppliers to participate in the standards-based Advance Switching initiative spearheaded by Intel. [15]

IDT made two acquisitions in 2005. In June, IDT acquired Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) for about $1.7 billion in cash and stock. The acquisition provided a platform for growth within the communications, computing, and consumer market. [16] In October, IDT acquired Freescale Semiconductor's timing products business for $35 million. The transaction was originally initiated by Integrated Circuit System Inc. before it was acquired by IDT earlier that year. [17]

In July 2006, IDT acquired the PC Audio division of Austin-based company SigmaTel for $80 million. This included SigmaTel's designs, marketing and manufacturing rights for its products, and software drivers. IDT planned to maintain the production flow of the existing SigmaTel products as part of the purchase agreement. [18] This division was later spun-off from IDT and became Tempo Semiconductor, Inc. in 2013.

In October 2008, IDT purchased the video processing technology and related assets from Silicon Optix, including the Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) brand and the Reon product line. This transaction included members of the Silicon Optix HQV engineering teams to enable continued delivery of video processing products. [19]

In April 2009, IDT sold its network search engine business to NetLogic Microsystems for approximately $100 million. [20]

In June, 2009, IDT acquired the touch sensor technology assets and employees of Leadis Technology necessary to execute the existing roadmap. [21] That same month, IDT acquired Tundra Semiconductor for about CDN $120.8 million to expand IDT's serial switching bridging products through PCI Express, RapidIO, and VME interconnect standards. [22]

In 2010, IDT made two acquisitions. In January, IDT acquired Mobius Microsystems Inc., a developer of all-silicon oscillator technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. [23] In late April of that year, IDT acquired the assets of IKOR, a former subsidiary of iWatt Corporation that manufactures power module VRM products for high-performance computing. The all-cash transaction allowed IDT to produce high-performance power management products for enterprise computing. [24]

In September 2011, IDT and Qualcomm announced the signing of an agreement to transfer IDT's Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) and Frame Rate Conversion (FRC) Video Processing product lines and certain related assets to Qualcomm. As part of the agreement, both companies will be exploring options to include more of IDT's products in Qualcomm's reference designs. [25]

In 2012, IDT made three acquisitions. In April, IDT acquired FOX Electronics, a global supplier of frequency control products (FCPs), in an all-cash transaction for approximately $30 million. [26] In July 2012, IDT acquired NXP’s high-speed data converter assets and Alvand Technologies, an analog IP company specializing in data converters. Terms of the deals were not disclosed. These transactions add to IDT's for wireless infrastructure products. [27]

In 2015, IDT acquired ZMDI in Dresden, Germany, for $307 million. [28]

In 2017, IDT acquired GigPeak, a highly regarded optical interconnect product and technology business, for total cash consideration of $3.08 per share, or approximately $250 million in cash. [29]

In Sept 2018, Renesas announced its acquisition of IDT for $6.7 billion. On March 30, 2019, Renesas completed the acquisition of Integrated Device Technology. [30] [31]

See also

Related Research Articles

Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016. Atmel was founded in 1984. The company focused on embedded systems built around microcontrollers. Its products included microcontrollers radio-frequency (RF) devices including Wi-Fi, EEPROM, and flash memory devices, symmetric and asymmetric security chips, touch sensors and controllers, and application-specific products. Atmel supplies its devices as standard products, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), or application-specific standard product (ASSPs) depending on the requirements of its customers.

Renesas Electronics Corporation is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, initially incorporated in 2002 as Renesas Technology, the consolidated entity of the semiconductor units of Hitachi and Mitsubishi excluding their dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) businesses, to which NEC Electronics merged in 2010, resulting in a minor change in the corporate name and logo to as it is now.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cypress Semiconductor</span> Defunct American semiconductor company

Cypress Semiconductor was an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It offered NOR flash memories, F-RAM and SRAM Traveo microcontrollers, PSoCs, PMICs, capacitive touch-sensing controllers, Wireless BLE Bluetooth Low-Energy and USB connectivity solutions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">PMC-Sierra</span> Former semiconductor company

PMC-Sierra was a global fabless semiconductor company with offices worldwide that developed and sold semiconductor devices into the storage, communications, optical networking, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces.

Intersil is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Milpitas, California. As of February 24, 2017, Intersil is a subsidiary of Renesas. The previous Intersil was formed in August 1999 through the acquisition of the semiconductor business of Harris Corporation. Intersil is a power management IC business, with specialized capability in power management and precision analog technology for applications in industrial, infrastructure, mobile, automotive and aerospace.

Maxim Integrated, a subsidiary of Analog Devices, designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets. Maxim's product portfolio includes power and battery management ICs, sensors, analog ICs, interface ICs, communications solutions, digital ICs, embedded security, and microcontrollers. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has design centers, manufacturing facilities, and sales offices worldwide.

Microchip Technology Incorporated is a publicly listed American corporation that manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits. Its products include microcontrollers, Serial EEPROM devices, Serial SRAM devices, embedded security devices, radio frequency (RF) devices, thermal, power, and battery management analog devices, as well as linear, interface and wireless products.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silicon Optix</span>

Silicon Optix Inc was a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designed and manufactured video/image digital processing integrated circuits. Originally a division of Genesis Microchip, Silicon Optix was spun off in 2000 by Paul Russo, the CEO of Genesis Microchip at the time. Silicon Optix acquired Teranex and its patents on the GAPP, which it incorporated into some of their products.

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company designing network and embedded Power ISA, and server processor ARM, optical transport and storage products.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NXP Semiconductors</span> Dutch semiconductor manufacturer

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 34,000 people in more than 30 countries. NXP reported revenue of $13.3 billion in 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Broadcom</span> American semiconductor company

Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. As of 2023, some 79 percent of Broadcom's revenue came from its semiconductor-based products and 21 percent from its infrastructure software products and services.

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation is a company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is owned by Integrated Device Technology.

ON Semiconductor Corporation is an American semiconductor supplier company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Products include power and signal management, logic, discrete, and custom devices for automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power applications. onsemi runs a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and design centers in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions. Based on its 2016 revenues of $3.907 billion, onsemi ranked among the worldwide top 20 semiconductor sales leaders, and was ranked No. 483 on the 2022 Fortune 500 based on its 2021 sales.

In electronics engineering, video processing is a particular case of signal processing, in particular image processing, which often employs video filters and where the input and output signals are video files or video streams. Video processing techniques are used in television sets, VCRs, DVDs, video codecs, video players, video scalers and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">PLX Technology</span> American manufacturer of integrated circuits

PLX Technology was a manufacturer of integrated circuits focused on PCI Express and Ethernet technologies. On August 12, 2014, Broadcom Inc., acquired the company.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cadence Design Systems</span> American multinational computational software company

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., is an American multinational technology and computational software company. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Cadence was formed in 1988 through the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD. Initially specialized in electronic design automation (EDA) software for the semiconductor industry, currently the company makes software and hardware for designing products such as integrated circuits, systems on chips (SoCs), printed circuit boards, and pharmaceutical drugs, also licensing intellectual property for the electronics, aerospace, defense and automotive industries, among others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">MACOM Technology Solutions</span> American semiconductor manufacturer

MACOM Technology Solutions, Inc. is a developer and producer of radio, microwave, and millimeter wave semiconductor devices and components. The company is headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, and in 2005 was Lowell's largest private employer. MACOM is certified to the ISO 9001 international quality standard and ISO 14001 environmental standard. The company has design centers and sales offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dialog Semiconductor</span> Anglo-German semiconductor company

Dialog Semiconductor Plc is an Anglo-German semiconductor-based system designer and manufacturer. The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom in Reading, with a global sales, R&D and marketing organization. Dialog creates highly integrated application-specific standard product (ASSP) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), optimised for smartphones, computing, Internet of Things devices, LED solid-state lighting (SSL), and smart home applications.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mellanox Technologies</span> Israeli-American multinational supplier of computer networking products

Mellanox Technologies Ltd. was an Israeli-American multinational supplier of computer networking products based on InfiniBand and Ethernet technology. Mellanox offered adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon for markets including high-performance computing, data centers, cloud computing, computer data storage and financial services.

Transphorm, Inc. is an American semiconductor company focused on producing transistors made from gallium nitride (GaN) for use in switched-mode power supplies.

References

  1. ↑ Integrated Device Technology Company Profile. Retrieve 2011-06-24.
  2. ↑ "US SEC: Form 10-K Integrated Device Technology, Inc". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ Powering Wireless Communications. Retrieved 2011-06-27 Archived 2011-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ http://www.newselectrionics.co.uk [ permanent dead link ] "Timing is Everything". Wade, Ron. January 2010.
  5. ↑ Retrieved 2011-10-06
  6. ↑ IDT Celebrates 25 Years of Accelerating Innovation. Business Wire (2005-05-05). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  7. ↑ Integrated Device Technology. IDT. Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  8. ↑ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_June_7/ai_n6055949/ [ bare URL ]
  9. ↑ http://www.allbusiness.com/electronics/computer-equipment-personal-computers/5553879-1.html [ dead link ]
  10. ↑ IDT Collaborates With Micron Technology to Deliver Industry's First Flash Controller With Native PCI Express® for Enterprise Solid-State Drives. Business Wire (2011-06-13). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  11. ↑ IDT buys Quality Semiconductor. EE Times. Retrieved on 2019-09-06.
  12. ↑ Short Take: IDT to buy Quality Semiconductor. Cnet. Retrieved on 2019-09-06.
  13. ↑ IDT boosts telecom prowess with Newave acquisition. EE Times. Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  14. ↑ "IDT Acquires Solidum Systems". www.lexpert.ca. October 10, 2002. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  15. ↑ IDT Acquires ZettaCom for $35M Archived 2012-07-30 at archive.today . EDN. Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  16. ↑ IDT acquires ICS for $1.7 billion. EE Times (2005-06-15). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  17. ↑ "IDT to buy Freescale's timing solutions business for $35M" Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine . Eetindia.co.in (2005-09-28). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  18. ↑ Electronics Weekly News | Communications | IDT buys audio codec business from SigmaTel. Electronicsweekly.com (2006-08-15). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  19. ↑ IDT Acquires Silicon Optix Assets and Technology. Business Wire (2008-10-21). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  20. ↑ "Non-Existent Domain". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  21. ↑ IDT buys some Leadis Technology assets - Silicon Valley Business Journal. Bizjournals.com (2009-06-11). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  22. ↑ IDT Completes Acquisition of Tundra Semiconductor Archived 2012-07-28 at archive.today . EDN. Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  23. ↑ IDT buys Mobius Microsystems. EE Times. Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  24. ↑ IDT Acquires Power Module VRM Assets of IKOR, a Subsidiary of iWatt Corporation. Business Wire (2010-04-22). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  25. ↑ Qualcomm buys IDT video IP, design teams. EE Times. Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  26. ↑ IDT acquires Fox Electronics for $30M - Silicon Valley Business Journal. Bizjournals.com (2012-04-30). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  27. ↑ IDT buys NXP's data converter assets. EE Times (2012-07-20). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
  28. ↑ "IDT Completes Acquisition of ZMDI". IDT. 2015-12-07. Archived from the original on 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
  29. ↑ "Renesas Electronics Corporation". 31 October 2023.
  30. ↑ "Renesas to Acquire Integrated Device Technology, to Enhance Global Leadership in Embedded Solutions". www.businesswire.com. 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
  31. ↑ "Renesas Completes Acquisition of Integrated Device Technology". Bloomberg.com. 30 March 2019. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.