18 Facts About Phoenix Technologies

Phoenix Technologies Ltd is an American company that designs, develops and supports core system software for personal computers and other computing devices.

Phoenix Technologies was incorporated in Massachusetts in September 1979, and its headquarters are in Campbell, California.

Phoenix Technologies developed customized versions of 86-DOS for various microprocessor platforms.

Phoenix Technologies provided PMate as a replacement for Edlin as the DOS file editor.

In 1987, Phoenix Technologies began the first of many expansion, acquisition, and collapse cycles.

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Phoenix Technologies tripled the number of employees from late 1986 to 1989.

Phoenix Technologies launched an IPO in June 1988 and made the founder and early employees instant millionaires on paper.

The original ROM BIOS code base was used on a joint development effort with David Keenan at IBM, but Phoenix Technologies did no further development work on the original code.

In 1994, Phoenix Technologies acquired Guildford, Surrey, UK-based DIP Research Ltd.

In 1996, Phoenix Technologies acquired Virtual Chips, Inc, a maker of synthesizable cores for PC peripherals, and Mountain View, California-based Award Software in 1998.

Phoenix Technologies continued to grow steadily from the late 1990s, and saw a significant increase in revenues from the Y2K product refreshes in the PC industry.

However, by mid-2001, the PC industry suffered another downturn, and Phoenix Technologies was forced to reduce the less profitable product lines, such as the IA-64 effort, and close a number of redundant offices.

Phoenix Technologies again focused on the core BIOS business for the next few years.

Phoenix Technologies announced some of the largest losses in the company history, and went through another consolidation cycle.

In 2009, Phoenix Technologies shut down their Engineering and Sales offices in Shanghai and Nanjing, China.

Phoenix Technologies laid off most of the staff in those offices, although some of the managers were moved to other offices in Taiwan.

Phoenix Technologies opened a new office in Bangalore, India and closed its office in Hyderabad, India.

In late Q4 2009, Phoenix Technologies began exploring strategic alternatives for the products it had developed and purchased in its prior acquisition phase.