26 Facts About LSI Corporation

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LSI Corporation was an American company based in San Jose, California which designed semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in data centers, mobile networks and client computing.

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LSI Corporation Stockholders voted in favor of the proposal in April 2014, merging the company into its parent, and continuing with the LSI Corporation brand.

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LSI Corporation initially was funded by venture capitalists, including Sequoia Capital with $6 million.

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LSI Corporation Logic went public with Nasdaq as LSI Corporation in May 1983 with the largest IPO to date of $153 million.

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LSI Corporation Logic was among the 14 founding members, but withdrew from SEMATECH in January 1992.

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In July 1991, LSI Corporation entered into an agreement with Sanyo Electric of Japan to make a set of chips that translate an HDTV signal into a television image.

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In February 1999, LSI Corporation acquired Seeq Technology, adding physical-layer based Ethernet technology to LSI Corporation's product line.

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In May 2000, LSI Corporation acquired IntraServer for $70 million, with expectations to add their rapidly expanding customer base to LSI Corporation's own.

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In November 2000, LSI Corporation acquired Syntax Systems, and in August 2001 the groups merged to become LSI Corporation Logic Storage Systems, and later Engenio Information Technologies.

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10.

In September 2001 LSI Corporation acquired a RAID adapter division from American Megatrends in a $221 million cash transaction.

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11.

LSI and Storage Technology Corporation entered an alliance making StorageTek the distributor of their co-branded storage products in January 2002.

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12.

In November 2003, LSI Corporation sold its Tsukuba, Japan facility to ROHM Company, Ltd.

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13.

Engenio division of LSI Corporation filed for its own IPO in 2004, but withdrew citing adverse market conditions after the burst of the dot-com bubble.

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Talwalkar was an executive at Intel Corporation before joining LSI, and began a program of acquisitions and divestitures.

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In October 2005, LSI Corporation Logic opened a semiconductor design and engineering development center at the Dubai Silicon Oasis Microelectronics Innovation Center.

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16.

In 2006, LSI Corporation Logic sold the Gresham, Oregon design and manufacturing facility to ON Semiconductor.

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17.

In March 2007, LSI Corporation Logic acquired SiliconStor Inc, a provider of semiconductor solutions for enterprise storage networks, for approximately $55 million in cash.

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18.

August 2007, LSI Corporation signed an agreement with STATS ChipPAC Ltd to sell its Pathumthani, Thailand semiconductor assembly and test operations for $100 million.

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19.

In October 2007, LSI Corporation acquired Tarari, a maker of silicon and software, for $85 million in cash.

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20.

In October 2007 LSI Corporation completed its sale of its Mobility Division to Infineon Technologies AG for $450 million in cash.

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21.

LSI Corporation put ONStor into its Engenio storage division, which is a NAS vendor.

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In March 2011, LSI Corporation announced its sale of its Engenio external storage systems business to NetApp for $480 million in cash.

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23.

In January 2012, LSI Corporation completed the acquisition of SandForce, which produced flash memory controllers.

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24.

LSI Corporation introduced its Nytro Predictor software, a tool that helps determine which Nytro product works best with which applications.

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25.

At the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase in May 2012, LSI Corporation announced accelerated datacenter performance with its DataBolt bandwidth optimizer technology.

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26.

LSI Corporation hosted its sixth Accelerated Innovation Summit, in November 2013.

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