15 Facts About Microsemi

Microsemi still was almost exclusively a defense business in 1987, but by then sales were close to $50 million.

Microsemi was originally traded Over the Counter, commonly traded as MicrSm.

In June 1991 Microsemi created two join-ventures in Taiwan for packaging in Taiwan its component dies made in Santa Ana, California.

Microsemi established its presence in Ireland in 1992 through the acquisition of a facility in Ennis Co.

Microsemi sold four subsidiaries, shut down one, combined two and retained three.

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In 2001 Microsemi relocated its headquarters from Santa Ana, California to Irvine, California.

In 2011 Microsemi relocated its headquarters from Irvine, California to Aliso Viejo, California.

In 2014 Microsemi 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.

Between 2014 and 2015 Microsemi acquired communications and data-center focused companies.

In March 2016 Microsemi announced the divestiture of the defense-focused business units acquired between 2009 and 2011.

In October 2017 Microsemi announced the acquisition of the timing business of Vectron International from Knowles for $130 million.

Microsemi 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.

Microsemi has provided semiconductor solutions for numerous US space programs dating back to the launch of the first Atlas rocket.

Microsemi products were used for mission critical applications such as launch systems, avionics, telemetry, navigation, drive control, mission computers, cameras and other instruments.

Microsemi 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.