Acquisitions
ZyDAS Technology - a USB Wireless LAN company headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, acquired in 2006.
Attansic Technology - a Fast and Gigabit Ethernet chip maker headquartered in Taiwan, acquired in early 2007.
u-Nav Microelectronics - a GPS chipmaker headquartered in Irvine, CA, acquired in 2007.
Intellon Corporation - a public company with powerline communication (PLC) solutions for home networking, networked entertainment, broadband-over-powerline (BPL) access, Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC), and smart grid management applications. They were acquired in late 2009.
Opulan Technology Corp - EPON broadband access technology developer in Shanghai, China, acquired in August 2010.
Bigfoot Networks - an Austin, Texas based company known for their networking products targeted toward gaming markets, acquired in September 2011.
Ubicom - a company known for their processor and software designed to optimize network data, acquired in February 2012.
DesignArt - small cell chip compay that combined several radio technologies on a single chip, used to provide wireless backhaul to smaller base stations. Acquired in August 2012.
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