LSI Logic Corporation , was an American company founded in Santa Clara, California , was a pioneer in the ASIC and EDA industries. It evolved over time to design and sell semiconductors and software that accelerated storage and networking in data centers, mobile networks and client computing.
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70-500: A $ 50M venture fund to invest in startups in the communication sector. In May 2000, LSI Logic acquired IntraServer for $ 70 million, with expectations to add their rapidly expanding customer base to LSI's own. In November 2000, LSI Logic acquired Syntax Systems, and in August 2001 the groups merged to become LSI Logic Storage Systems, and later Engenio Information Technologies. In March 2001 LSI Logic acquired C-Cube Microsystems,
105-506: A consortium of venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers II, Institutional Venture Partners , and Technical Development Capital Ltd. A second round of $ 16 million in funding from Sequoia Capital , a group of investment bankers from the UK and First Interstate Bank came In March 1982. The initial plan called for a line of CMOS gate arrays created from “masterslices” which were uncommitted transistors customized to
140-547: A controlling stake in Video Seven Inc. , a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of PC graphics boards In April 1989, LSI Logic merged its G-2 Inc PC chipsets and Video Seven Inc. graphics chip buses to create Headland Technology Inc, a subsidiary to be run by LSI Logic founder Bill O'Meara In October 1989, LSI Logic transferred its stock listing from NASDAQ : LLSI to NYSE : LSI. In July 1991, LSI Logic entered into an agreement with Sanyo Electric of Japan to make
175-421: A peak of $ 25.50 during the day and closed at $ 24 a share which valued the company at $ 588M. Once underwriters options were exercised the total offering brought in $ 153 million. Stock symbol: LLSI. In April 1984, LSI Logic formed a Japanese affiliate, Nihon LSI Logic Corporation, and raised $ 20M in a private offering. In June 1984, LSI Logic formed a British subsidiary, LSI Logic Ltd, and raised $ 20M in through
210-506: A private placement. In February 1985, LSI Logic formed a Canadian subsidiary, LSI Logic Corporation of Canada, Inc. In 1985, the firm entered into a joint venture called Nihon Semiconductor, Inc. together with Kawasaki Steel —Japan's third largest steel manufacturer—to build a $ 100 million wafer fabrication plant in Tsukuba , Japan . In 1987, LSI Logic was among the 14 founding members of SEMATECH , but later withdrew from
245-511: A provider of semiconductor solutions for enterprise storage networks, for approximately $ 55 million in cash. April 2007, LSI Logic completed its merger with Agere Systems Inc., who previously owned LSI's Mobility Products Group, and rebranded the firm LSI Corporation. July 2007, Magnum Semiconductor Inc. a spin-off of Cirrus Logic Inc. , acquired LSI Corporation's consumer products business and 13 percent of LSI's workforce. These lines included architectures named DoMiNo and Zevio, evolutions of
280-497: A set of chips that translate an HDTV signal into a television image. In July 1992, LSI Logic announced CoreWare subsystems as part of its ASIC design flow . In 1993, Sony Computer Entertainment chose LSI Logic as their ASIC partner, charged with fitting the PlayStation CPU on a single chip. LSI's CoreWare could do it, while other offers made to Sony needed two chips. Sony also worked with LSI's engineers develop
315-448: A specific application by the deposition of unique metal interconnections. The intention was to have the masterslices manufactured by external semiconductor companies and then do the metallization themselves. In order to jump start the business, they licensed an existing CMOS gate array design from California Devices Inc. (CDI) and reverse engineered and improved on an ECL gate array design from Motorola . The first interactive CAD system
350-504: A video compression semiconductor company, for $ 878 million in stock. In September 2001 LSI Logic acquired the RAID adapter division from American Megatrends in a $ 221 million cash transaction. Included in this deal, LSI received AMI's MegaRAID software intellectual property, host bus adapter products and 200 RAID employees. In January 2002 LSI Logic and Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek) entered an alliance making StorageTek
385-789: Is an American stock exchange based in New York City . It is the most active stock trading venue in the U.S. by volume, and ranked second on the list of stock exchanges by market capitalization of shares traded, behind the New York Stock Exchange . The exchange platform is owned by Nasdaq, Inc. , which also owns the Nasdaq Nordic stock market network and several U.S.-based stock and options exchanges . Although it trades stock of healthcare, financial, media, entertainment, retail, hospitality, and food businesses, it focuses more on technology stocks . The exchange
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#1732802013133420-821: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Seeq Technology In April 2007, LSI Logic merged with Agere Systems and rebranded the firm as LSI Corporation . On May 6, 2014, LSI Corporation was acquired by Avago Technologies (now known as Broadcom Inc. ) for $ 6.6 billion. LSI Logic Corporation was incorporated in November 1980 by Wilfred J. Corrigan and began operating in early 1981 using leased facilities in Santa Clara, California. Corrigan recruited co-founders Bill O'Meara (VP Marketing and Sales), Rob Walker (VP Engineering) and Mitchell "Mick" Bohn (CFO) as co-founders. Initial funding of $ 6 million came from
455-649: Is made up of both American and foreign firms, with China and Israel being the largest foreign sources. "Nasdaq" was initially an acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority . On February 8, 1971, the Nasdaq stock market began operations as
490-591: The C-Cube Microsystems technology. August 2007, LSI Corporation signed an agreement with STATS ChipPAC Ltd to sell its Pathumthani, Thailand semiconductor assembly and test operations for $ 100 million. In October 2007, LSI Corporation acquired Tarari , a maker of silicon and software, for $ 85 million in cash. October 2007 LSI Corporation completed its sale of its Mobility Division to Infineon Technologies AG (Munich) for €330 million in cash. Approximately 700 LSI employees transferred to Infineon in
525-543: The London Stock Exchange to form the first intercontinental linkage of capital markets . In 1996, the SEC issued a report alleging that Nasdaq market makers fixed prices by avoiding "odd-eighths" quotes (at the time, stock prices were quoted in increments of an eighth of a dollar) to artificially widen spreads. The report was followed by a new set of rules for how Nasdaq handled orders. In 1998, it became
560-603: The NASDAQ Financial-100 Index, which tracks the largest 100 companies in terms of market capitalization . On March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaked at 5,132.52, but fell to 3,227 by April 17, and, in the following 30 months, fell 78% from its peak. In a series of sales in 2000 and 2001, FINRA sold its stake in the Nasdaq. On July 2, 2002, Nasdaq Inc. became a public company via an initial public offering . In 2006,
595-761: The dot-com bubble . In May 2005, Abhi Talwalkar joined LSI Logic as president and CEO, and was also appointed to the board of directors. Talwalkar was an executive at Intel Corporation before joining LSI. Wilfred Corrigan served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board from 1981 to June 2005 and Chairman from June 2005 until May 2006. In April 2006, LSI Logic sold the Gresham, Oregon design and manufacturing facility to ON Semiconductor for $ 105 million in cash In October 2006, LSI Logic agreed to an all-stock merger with Agere Systems worth about $ 4 billion. March 2007, LSI Logic acquired SiliconStor Inc.,
630-609: The graphics engine , DMA controller, I/O and bus controllers. In 1995, LSI Logic acquired all the remaining shares (45%) of its Canadian subsidiary LSI Logic Corporation of Canada, Inc., which it did not already own. In 1997, LSI Logic acquired Mint Technology, an engineering services company. In August 1998, LSI Logic acquired Symbios Logic from Hyundai Electronic for $ 760 million cash. In February 1999, LSI Logic acquired Seeq Technology for $ 106 million in stock, adding physical-layer based Ethernet technology to LSI's product line. In January 2000, LSI Logic established
665-505: The EDA industry had developed enough that customers wanted to be able to use 3rd party tools. Sales grew rapidly and they were able to launch a successful initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange on May, 13 1983. The offering was underwritten by Morgan Stanley & Co and Hambrecht & Quist . 7 million shares of common stock were issued at a price of $ 21 per share. The stock hit
700-666: The EMiniCME. Below are the contract specifications for the Nasdaq 100 and derivatives. Nasdaq quotes are available at three levels: The Nasdaq Stock Market sessions, with times in the Eastern Time Zone are: 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.: extended-hours trading session (premarket) 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.: normal trading session 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.: extended-hours trading session (postmarket) The Nasdaq Stock Market averages about 253 trading days per year. The Nasdaq Stock Market has three different market tiers: After
735-1110: The acquisition of SandForce , which produced flash memory controllers (for $ 370 million reported in October 2011). LSI started producing its own PCIe cards for data center servers, using SandForce's flash controller chips, under their new Nytro product line that April. This included three different products: LSI Nytro WarpDrive Application Acceleration Cards, LSI Nytro XD Application Acceleration Storage Solution, and LSI Nytro MegaRAID Application Acceleration Cards. December 2012, LSI Corporation transferred its stock listing from NYSE: LSI to NASDAQ (Global Select Market): LSI. On December 16, 2013, Avago Technologies (which later acquired Broadcom Corporation , then renamed itself as Broadcom Ltd., then in 2018 changed its name to Broadcom Inc. ) announced it would be acquiring LSI Corporation for $ 6.6 billion in cash. The transaction closed on May 6, 2014. Nasdaq The Nasdaq Stock Market ( / ˈ n æ z d æ k / ; National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations)
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#1732802013133770-646: The continued price increases when selling market data . In December 2020, NASDAQ announced that it would strip its indexes of four Chinese companies in response to Executive Order 13959 . In September 2024, the European Commission said it had carried out an unannounced inspection at the offices of Nasdaq over potential anti-competitive practices. Nasdaq 100 futures are traded on the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) while its derivatives, E-Mini Nasdaq 100 and Micro E-Mini Nasdaq 100 futures are traded on
805-591: The deal. April 2009, LSI Corporation bought the 3ware RAID adapter business of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation . July 2009, LSI Corporation acquires NAS vendor ONStor, Inc. for $ 25 million. March 2011, LSI Corporation announced its sale of its Engenio external storage systems business to NetApp for $ 480 million in cash. The sale of the Engenio division, which generated revenues of $ 705 million in 2010, completed in May. January 2012, LSI Corporation completed
840-405: The distributor of their co-branded storage products. In August 2002 LSI Logic acquired Mylex from IBM , to expand its storage technologies. In November 2003, LSI Logic sold its Tsukuba, Japan wafer fabrication facility to ROHM Company, Ltd . for $ 23.5 million. The Engenio division of LSI Logic filed for its own IPO in 2004, but withdrew citing adverse market conditions after the burst of
875-543: The eve of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). In November 2016, chief operating officer Adena Friedman was promoted to chief executive officer , becoming the first woman to run a major exchange in the U.S. In 2016, Nasdaq earned $ 272 million in listings-related revenues. In October 2018, the SEC ruled that the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq did not justify
910-468: The first stock market in the United States to trade online, using the slogan "the stock market for the next hundred years". The Nasdaq Stock Market attracted many companies during the dot-com bubble . Its main index is the NASDAQ Composite , which has been published since its inception. The QQQ exchange-traded fund tracks the large-cap NASDAQ-100 index, which was introduced in 1985 alongside
945-470: The monthly Stock Guides (stock guides and procedures) issued by Standard & Poor's Corporation. Over the years, it became more of a stock market by adding trade and volume reporting and automated trading systems. In 1981, Nasdaq traded 37% of the U.S. securities markets' total of 21 billion shares. By 1991, Nasdaq's share had grown to 46%. In 1992, the Nasdaq Stock Market joined with
980-722: The organization in January 1992. In December 1987, MIPS Computer Systems brought on LSI Logic as a licensee to ability to fabricate the R2000 and R3000 chipsets and provided a license for LSI Logic to implement the MIPS I instruction set architecture (ISA) in ASIC form. In March 1988, LSI Logic agrees to manufacture and sell the SPARC RISC microprocessor under license from SUN Microsystems . In October 1988, LSI Logic acquired
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1050-834: The status of the Nasdaq Stock Market was changed from a stock market to a licensed national securities exchange. In 2007, it merged with OMX, a leading exchange operator in the Nordic countries, expanded its global footprint, and changed its name to the NASDAQ OMX Group. To qualify for listing on the exchange, a company must be registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), must have at least three market makers (financial firms that act as brokers or dealers for specific securities) and must meet minimum requirements for assets, capital, public shares, and shareholders. In February 2011, in
1085-485: The wake of an announced merger of NYSE Euronext with Deutsche Börse , speculation developed that NASDAQ OMX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) could mount a counter-bid of their own for NYSE. NASDAQ OMX could be looking to acquire the American exchange's cash equities business, ICE the derivatives business. At the time, "NYSE Euronext's market value was $ 9.75 billion. Nasdaq was valued at $ 5.78 billion, while ICE
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1120-460: The world's first electronic stock market. At first, it was merely a "quotation system" and did not provide a way to perform electronic trades. The NASDAQ Stock Market eventually assumed the majority of major trades that had been executed by the over-the-counter (OTC) system of trading, but there are still many securities traded in this fashion. As late as 1987, the Nasdaq exchange was still commonly referred to as "OTC" in media reports and also in
1155-491: Was called LSI Design System (LDS). The initial EDA flow was based on simulation from TEGAS and place and route from Silvar-Lisco, integrated on Megatek hardware. What made them unique from other ASIC vendors at the time was that they willing to ship the software to their customers rather than keeping it in-house, which was the strategy used by market leaders at the time. In 1982 they started development of their own in-house CAD tools and moved to Silicon Graphics hardware. By 1988,
1190-555: Was founded as a European equivalent to the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was purchased by NASDAQ in 2001 and became NASDAQ Europe. In 2003, operations were shut down as a result of the burst of the dot-com bubble . In 2007, NASDAQ Europe was revived first as Equiduct and was acquired by Börse Berlin later that year. On June 18, 2012, Nasdaq OMX became a founding member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative on
1225-662: Was valued at $ 9.45 billion." Late in the month, Nasdaq was reported to be considering asking either ICE or the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to join in what would probably have to be, if it proceeded, an $ 11–12 billion counterbid. In December 2005, NASDAQ acquired Instinet for $ 1.9 billion, retaining the Inet ECN and subsequently selling the agency brokerage business to Silver Lake Partners and Instinet management. The European Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (EASDAQ)
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