IDT (NASDAQ: IDTI) was founded in 1980 as a semiconductor vendor. The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) A semiconductor' is a Solid material that has Electrical conductivity in between a conductor and an insulator; it can vary over that Employing approximately 2500 people worldwide, headquartered in San Jose, California and operating a fab in Hillsboro, Oregon, the company both designs and fabricates semiconductor components. In the Microelectronics industry a semiconductor fabrication plant (commonly called a fab) is a factory where devices such as Integrated circuits are manufactured Hillsboro is a city in and the County seat of Washington County, Oregon, United States IDT operates in two business segments: Communications and High-Performance Logic and Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs). The Communications and High-Performance Logic segment includes FIFOs and multi-ports. FIFO is an Acronym for First In First Out, an abstraction in ways of organizing and manipulation of data relative to time and prioritization The SRAMs segment consists of high-speed SRAMs. Static random access memory (SRAM is a type of Semiconductor memory where the word static indicates that unlike ''dynamic'' RAM (DRAM, it does not
Historically IDT manufactured MIPS processors developed by QED and also for a while its own x86 processor designed by its Centaur Technology subsidiary called the IDT WinChip. MIPS (originally an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) is a RISC microprocessor architecture developed by MIPS Technologies Quantum Effect Devices was a company originally named Quantum Effect Design incorporated in 1991 See also X86 assembly language The generic term x86 refers to the most commercially successful Instruction set architecture in the history of Personal Centaur Technology is an x86 CPU design company now a wholly owned subsidiary of VIA Technologies, a member of the Formosa Plastics Group, The WinChip series was a low-power Socket 7 -based X86 processor designed by Centaur Technology and marketed by its parent company On September, 1999 IDT sold Centaur Technology x86 microprocessor design subsidiary to VIA Technologies. VIA Technologies ( is a Taiwanese manufacturer of Integrated circuits mainly Motherboard Chipsets CPUs, and memory, and
On April, 1999 IDT acquired Quality Semiconductor (QSI) a supplier of clock management and bus switch logic.
On May, 2004, IDT acquired ZettaCom, Inc.
On Jun, 2005 IDT acquired Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) for about $1. 5 billion in cash and stock.
On October, 2005 IDT acquired Freescale Semiconductor's timing solutions business for $35 million. Freescale Semiconductor Inc is an American Semiconductor manufacturer
In July, 2006 IDT acquired the PC Audio division of Austin-based company SigmaTel for $80 million. SigmaTel (SGTL delisted from NASDAQ after 2008 acquisition by Freescale Semiconductor) is an Electronics company located in Austin TX, which designs mixed
One current speciality of the company are devices for network processing, in particular packet inspection products for firewalls. In Information technology, a packet is a formatted unit of Data carried by a Packet mode Computer network. A firewall is an integrated collection of security measures designed to prevent unauthorized electronic access to a networked computer system In October 2002 IDT acquired Solidum Systems, a maker of network search element devices[1]. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Solidum Systems was a Fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa Ontario Canada in 1997.
Another high-profile product is IDT's implementation of the Advanced Memory Buffer (AMB), an integral part of the Fully Buffered DIMM memory architecture. Fully Buffered DIMM (or FB-DIMM is a memory technology which can be used to increase reliability speed and density of memory systems
Company shares are publicly traded under the Nasdaq symbol IDTI and value the company at approximately 1 billion dollars[2] at the beginning of 2005. The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Integrated Device Technology threatened the State of California that the company would move out-of-state if a ballot was passed on a measure called "Proposition 211" which was designed to introduce extra corporate oversight prior to the scandals of the late 1990s and early 21st century1. The proposition was subsequently defeated by 25. 6% to 74. 4%2.
References
- `Frivolous' lawsuit initiative draws fire, Lorna Fernandes, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, 23 August 1996, retrieved 3 January 2005 from http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1996/08/26/story4.html
- 1996 General Election Returns for Ballot Propositions, California Secretary of State Website for 1996 general election retrieved 3 January 2005 from http://vote96.ss.ca.gov/Vote96/html/vote/prop/page.961218083528.html
External links
- Official site
- chipdb.org Pictures of IDT microprocessors
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