Microsemi Corporation was founded in February 1959 in Culver City, California as MicroSemiconductor.
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16 Facts About Microsemi Corporation
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Microsemi Corporation still was almost exclusively a defense business in 1987, but by then sales were close to $50 million.
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Microsemi Corporation was originally traded Over the Counter, commonly traded as MicrSm.
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In June 1991 Microsemi Corporation created two join-ventures in Taiwan for packaging in Taiwan its component dies made in Santa Ana, California.
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Microsemi Corporation sold four subsidiaries, shut down one, combined two and retained three.
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In 2001 Microsemi Corporation relocated its headquarters from Santa Ana, California to Irvine, California.
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In 2011 Microsemi Corporation relocated its headquarters from Irvine, California to Aliso Viejo, California.
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In 2014 Microsemi Corporation established a design group in Cork, Ireland, through the acquisition of Mingoa, which is focused on advanced system-on-chip software and solutions with an emphasis on ARM processor-centric designs.
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Between 2014 and 2015 Microsemi Corporation acquired communications and data-center focused companies.
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In March 2016 Microsemi Corporation announced the divestiture of the defense-focused business units acquired between 2009 and 2011.
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In October 2017 Microsemi Corporation announced the acquisition of the timing business of Vectron International from Knowles for $130 million.
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Microsemi Corporation has been producing various electronic products, including high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions, voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; enterprise storage and communication solutions, security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Ethernet solutions; Power-over-Ethernet ICs.
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Microsemi Corporation has provided semiconductor solutions for numerous US space programs dating back to the launch of the first Atlas rocket.
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Microsemi Corporation products were used for mission critical applications such as launch systems, avionics, telemetry, navigation, drive control, mission computers, cameras and other instruments.
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Microsemi Corporation was headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California and had offices in California ; Boulder, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Beverly, Lawrence, and Lowell, Massachusetts; Allentown and Reading, Pennsylvania; Austin and Dallas, Texas; Ottawa, Canada; Macau, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; Herlev, Denmark; Bruges, Belgium; Ennis, Ireland; Hod HaSharon, Israel; Manila and Cabuyao, Philippines; Caldicot, United Kingdom; and Hyderabad, India.
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