20-11-2017, 11:05 AM
VLSI Technology, Inc., was a company that designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom integrated circuits (ICs). The company was headquartered in Silicon Valley, located at 1109 McKay Drive in San Jose, California, USA. UU Together with LSI Logic, VLSI Technology defined the cutting edge of the application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) business, accelerating the momentum of powerful integrated systems into affordable products. VLSI was acquired in June 1999 for approximately $ 1 billion by Philips Electronics and today is part of Philips' NXP semiconductors.
VLSI maintained operations throughout the United States, and in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. One of his key sites was in Tempe, Arizona, where he developed a family of highly successful chipsets for IBM PC. In 1990, VLSI Technology, together with Acorn Computers and Apple Computer were the founding partners of the investment in ARM Ltd.
Ericsson from Sweden, after many years of collaboration, was in 1998, the largest customer of VLSI, with annual revenues of $ 120 million. The VLSI data compiler (VDP) was the value-added differentiator that opened the door to Ericsson in 1987/8. Silicon and GPM revenues enabled by VDP should make it one of the most successful non-memorable silicon intellectual property (SIP) items configurable by the customer in the history of the industry. Within the Wireless division, based in Sophia-Antipolis in France, VLSI developed a range of algorithms and circuits for the GSM standard and for wireless standards such as the European DECT and the Japanese PHS.
Encouraged by its growth and success in the IC area of wireless devices, Philips Electronics acquired VLSI in June 1999, for around $ 1 billion. The above components survive to this day as part of Philips' NXP semiconductors.