Integrated Device Technology

Integrated Device Technology (short: IDT) was founded in 1980 as a semiconductor manufacturer. The company headquarters is located in San Jose, California, production in Hillsboro, Oregon. With about 2,500 employees worldwide develops and manufactures semiconductor IDT and is active in two business segments: communications and high-speed logic (eg, FIFOs ) and SRAM.

The shares are publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol IDTI. The company's value is about 2.7 billion U.S. $ (as of April 2007).

History

Formerly made ​​IDT MIPS processors, developed by QED. In addition, IDT had from 1995 to 1999 its own x86 processor family called WinChip, which were developed by its subsidiary, Centaur Technology, in the offer. In September 1999, Centaur Technology was sold to VIA Technologies.

Acquisitions

  • April 1999: Acquisition of Quality Semiconductor ( QSI ), a provider of clocks
  • October 2002: acquisition of Solidum Systems
  • May 2004: acquisition of ZettaCom
  • June 2005: acquisition of Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS ) ( $ 1.5 billion )
  • October 2005: acquisition of companies parts Freescale Semiconductor ( U.S. $ 35 million )
  • July 2006: acquisition of the audio department of SigmaTel ( 80 million U.S. $ )

Products

A specialty of the company are devices for network processing, in particular packet filtering firewalls.

Another well-known product is IDTs implementation of the Advanced Memory Buffer ( AMB), an important component of Fully Buffered DIMM memory technology.

Types of business entity Integrated device manufacturer Hillsboro (Oregon) Static random-access memory MIPS architecture
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