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IDT was founded in 1980 as a semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 vendor. Employing approximately 2500 people worldwide, headquartered in San Jose, California
San Jose, California

San Jose or San Jos? is the List of cities in California city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States....
, and operating a fab in Hillsboro, Oregon
Hillsboro, Oregon

Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County, Oregon. Lying in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city is home to many hi tech companies such as Intel that comprise what has become known as the Silicon Forest....
, the company both designs and fabricates semiconductor components. IDT operates in two business segments: Communications and High-Performance Logic and Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs). The Communications and High-Performance Logic segment includes FIFO
FIFO

FIFO is an acronym for First In, First Out, an abstraction in ways of organizing and manipulation of data relative to time and prioritization....
s and multi-ports.






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IDT was founded in 1980 as a semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 vendor. Employing approximately 2500 people worldwide, headquartered in San Jose, California
San Jose, California

San Jose or San Jos? is the List of cities in California city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States....
, and operating a fab in Hillsboro, Oregon
Hillsboro, Oregon

Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County, Oregon. Lying in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city is home to many hi tech companies such as Intel that comprise what has become known as the Silicon Forest....
, the company both designs and fabricates semiconductor components. IDT operates in two business segments: Communications and High-Performance Logic and Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs). The Communications and High-Performance Logic segment includes FIFO
FIFO

FIFO is an acronym for First In, First Out, an abstraction in ways of organizing and manipulation of data relative to time and prioritization....
s and multi-ports. The SRAMs segment consists of high-speed SRAM
Static random access memory

Static random access memory is a type of semiconductor memory where the word static indicates that, unlike dynamic random access memory, it does not need to be periodically memory refresh, as SRAM uses bistable latch to store each bit....
s.

Historically IDT manufactured MIPS
MIPS architecture

MIPS is a RISC instruction set architecture developed by MIPS Technologies . In the mid to late 1990s, it was estimated that one in three RISC microprocessors produced were MIPS implementations....
 processor
Central processing unit

A central processing unit is an electronic circuit that can execute computer programs. This broad definition can easily be applied to many early computers that existed long before the term "CPU" ever came into widespread usage....
s developed by QED
Quantum Effect Devices

Quantum Effect Devices was a company originally named Quantum Effect Design, incorporated in 1991. The three founders, Tom Riordan, Earl Killian and Ray Kunita, were senior managers at MIPS Computer Systems Inc.....
 and also for a while its own x86 processor designed by its Centaur Technology
Centaur Technology

Centaur Technology is an X86 architecture CPU design company, now a wholly owned subsidiary of VIA Technologies, a member of the Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's largest industrial conglomerate....
 subsidiary called the IDT WinChip
WinChip

The WinChip series was a CPU electrical consumption Socket 7-based x86 central processing unit designed by Centaur Technology and marketed by its parent company Integrated Device Technology....
. On September, 1999 IDT sold Centaur Technology x86 microprocessor design subsidiary to VIA Technologies
VIA Technologies

VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, Central processing unit, and computer memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group....
.

On April, 1999 IDT acquired Quality Semiconductor (QSI) a supplier of clock management and bus switch logic.

On May, 2004, IDT acquired ZettaCom, Inc.

On Jun, 2005 IDT acquired Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) for about $1.5 billion in cash and stock.

On October, 2005 IDT acquired Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004....
's timing solutions business for $35 million.

In July, 2006 IDT acquired the PC Audio division of Austin-based company SigmaTel
SigmaTel

SigmaTel is an electronics company located in Austin, TX, which designs mixed Audio signal processing, and microcontroller for multifunction peripherals....
 for $80 million.

One current speciality of the company are devices for network processing, in particular packet inspection products for firewalls
Firewall (networking)

A firewall is an integrated collection of security measures designed to prevent unauthorized electronic access to a networked computer system....
. In October 2002 IDT acquired Solidum Systems
Solidum Systems

Solidum Systems was a fabless semiconductor company founded by Feliks Welfeld and Misha Nossik in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1997. It developed a series of rule-based network classification semiconductor devices....
, a maker of network search element devices.

Another high-profile product is IDT's implementation of the Advanced Memory Buffer (AMB), an integral part of the Fully Buffered DIMM
Fully Buffered DIMM

Fully Buffered DIMM is a memory technology which can be used to increase reliability, speed and density of memory systems. Conventionally, data lines from the memory controller have to be connected to data lines in every Dynamic random access memory module....
 memory architecture.

Company shares are publicly traded under the Nasdaq
NASDAQ

The NASDAQ is an United States stock exchange. It is the largest Electronic trading screen-based Stock trading market in the United States....
 symbol IDTI and value the company at approximately 1 billion dollars .

According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Integrated Device Technology threatened the State of California that the company would move out-of-state if a ballot was passed on a measure called "Proposition 211" which was designed to introduce extra corporate oversight prior to the scandals of the late 1990s and early 21st century1. The proposition was subsequently defeated by 25.6% to 74.4%2.

External links

  • Pictures of IDT microprocessors