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PMC-Sierra

PMC-Sierra was a global fabless semiconductor company with offices worldwide that developed and sold semiconductor devices into the storage, communications, optical networking, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces.

History
Sierra Semiconductor was founded in 1984 in San Jose, California by James Diller. and Microsemi were attempting to acquire PMC-Sierra. On November 24, 2015, Microsemi announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire PMC-Sierra. == Technology ==
Technology
PMC-Sierra provided broadband communications and storage semiconductors for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, enterprise and channel storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment. PMC had more than 250 different semiconductor devices and in August 2014 introduced the Flashtec line of non-volatile memory drives. Communications PMC-Sierra offered communication ICs for metro access, metro transport, FTTH/PON, Ethernet over SONET/SDH, Optical Transport Network (OTN) and wireless base transceiver stations (BTS). with the judges citing "...substantial new features, technologies, and capabilities included in the upgrade..." Printers PMC-Sierra has discrete and system-on-chip products for both laser and multi-function printers. == References ==
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