- Silicon Laboratories
Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ|SLAB) is a mixed signal
fabless semiconductor company based inAustin, Texas .The company was founded in 1996 by three veterans from the former Crystal Semiconductors – Nav Sooch, Dave Welland and Jeff Scott. The company's
CEO is Necip Sayiner.The company has three main product business lines:
* Wireline - led by Dave Bresemann
* Broadcast - led by Tyson Tuttle
* Microcontrollers or MCU - led by Derrell Coker.Silicon Laboratories has about 550 employees worldwide.
The company recently purchased a building in downtown Austin and is in the process of consolidating all Austin employees in that single location. [ [http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2006/03/27/daily40.html"Silicon Labs completes downtown deal", "Austin Business Journal", 2006-March-31] ] Silicon Labs has worked with Dell Computers, Toshiba, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, Microsoft, and many other companies.
Acquisition of the Cellular Communications Business
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2007 -02-08 ,NXP Semiconductors announced that it is to acquire Silicon Labs' Cellular Communications Business. [ [http://www.nxp.com/news/content/file_1303.html NXP Semiconductors] ]Notes
External links
* [http://www.silabs.com/ Silicon Laboratories, Inc.]
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