Silicon Laboratories

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Silicon Labs
Type	Public
Traded as	SLAB
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	1996 ^[1]
Headquarters	Austin, Texas, United States
Key people	Tyson Tuttle(Chairman, President and CEO)
Products	Mixed-signal integrated circuits Microcontrollers Sensors
Revenue	US$ 563.3 million (2012)
Operating income	US$ 85.67 million (2012)^[2]
Net income	US$ 63.59 million (2012)^[2]
Total assets	US$ 871.97 million (2012)^[2]
Total equity	US$ 649.97 million (2012)^[2]
Employees	997 (2012)
Website

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (Austin, Texas.

The company was founded in 1996 by three veterans from the former Crystal Semiconductor – Nav Sooch, Dave Welland and Jeff Scott.^[3] The company's CEO is Tyson Tuttle.^[4] The company went public in 2000.^[5] Silicon Labs leverages its intellectual property to develop mixed-signal ICs that typically integrate a number of discrete functions on a single CMOS die. The company has leveraged its technology portfolio to expand into a number of large markets. The company has three main businesses:

Access - which includes PoE devices for networking gear
Broadcast - which includes single-chip silicon TV tuners and demodulators
Broad-based - which includes human interface solutions such as touch controllers and proximity sensors.

Silicon Labs has about 900 employees worldwide and research and development offices located throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Silicon Labs' customers include Samsung, Huawei, LG, and Thomson.

1 Broad-based Products
2 Acquisitions
3 References
4 External links

Broad-based Products

With the acquisition of Cygnal Integrated Products, Silicon Labs marked their entry into the multi-billion dollar general-purpose analog and MCU markets and began building its Broad-based business, which is now 40% of company revenue. Silicon Labs’ C8051 8-bit MCUs are based on a patented implementation of the EFM32 Gecko product line.

Also part of the company's Broad-based business are clock and oscillator products that are customizable online as well as digital isolators that replace optocouplers, short range wireless receivers and transceivers for sub-GHz applications and an emerging portfolio of touch and proximity sensing products for consumer and industrial applications.

Acquisitions

2003 December, Silicon Labs acquired Cygnal Integrated Products, an Austin-based innovator of analog-intensive, highly integrated 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs).
2007-02-08, NXP Semiconductors announced that it is to acquire Silicon Labs' Cellular Communications Business.^[6]
2008, Silicon Labs announces acquisition of Integration Associates
2010 April, Silicon Labs announced acquisition of Limerick based 'ChipSensors' and California based Silicon Clocks
2011 January, Silicon Labs acquires Silicon Valley based SpectraLinear^[7]
2012 Silicon Labs acquires ZigBee manufacturer Ember^[8]
June 2013, Silicon Labs announced intention to acquire low-power ARM microcontroller specialist Energy Micro^[9]

References

External links

Silicon Laboratories, Inc.

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