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North American Company Profiles 8X8 North American Company Profiles 8x8 8X8 8x8, Inc. 2445 Mission College Boulevard Santa Clara, California 95054 Telephone: (408) 727-1885 Fax: (408) 980-0432 Web Site: www.8x8.com Fabless IC Supplier Regional Headquarters/Representative Locations Europe: 8x8, Inc. • Bucks, England Telephone: (44) (1628) 890984 • Fax: (44) (1628) 890938 Financial History ($M), Fiscal Year Ends March 31 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Sales 36 31 34 20 29 Net Income 5 (1) (0.3) (6) (3) R&D Expenditures 77788 Employees 114 100 105 110 81 Company Overview and Strategy 8x8, Inc. was founded originally as Integrated Information Technology, Inc. (IIT) in 1987 to supply math coprocessors for 286 and later 386 microprocessor chips. Since June 1995, the company has been discontinuing all efforts unrelated to video conferencing, including dropping product lines and development efforts in math coprocessors, x86-compatible microprocessors, graphics ICs, and MPEG decoders. Along with the new business strategy came the new name, 8x8 Inc., in early 1996. The 8x8 name reflects the company’s focus on programmable integrated circuits for video conferencing applications in a wide range of consumer and PC multimedia products. An 8x8 block of picture elements (pixels) is the basis of many video compression algorithms. 8x8 continues to place greater emphasis on its video compression semiconductors, which for fiscal year 1996 represented 63 percent of total sales, compared to only 12 percent in 1994. The company is planning reliance on a new line of cost effective VideoCommunicators for the consumer video conferencing market. The company launched its initial public offering in November of 1996. Export sales accounted for almost half of 8x8’s revenue in fiscal 1996. INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ENGINEERING CORPORATION 1-1 8x8 North American Company Profiles Management Joseph L. Parkinson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Y. W. Sing Vice Chairman Keith Barraclough President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Voois Executive Vice President Sandra Abbott Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer David Harper Vice President, European Operations Bryan Martin Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technical Officer Chris McNiffe Vice President, Sales and Marketing Michael Noonen Vice President, Business Development Samuel Wang Vice President, Process Technology Doug Bailey Director, Worldwide Sales Kevin Deierling Director, Marketing Products and Processes 8x8 Inc. develops highly integrated programmable single-chip compression and decompression ICs and related software for video phone and video conferencing equipment. The company’s family of processors include the following: • Video Communications Processor (VCP) is a single-chip programmable video subsystem and multimedia communications processor for conferencing over ISDN telephone lines. In early 1997, the company introduced a simple and inexpensive video phone, dubbed ViaTV Phone, that contains the VCP device. • Low-bit-rate Videophone Processor (LVP) is a single-chip programmable video-phone processor for conferencing over ordinary telephone lines. • Multimedia Encode Processor (MEP) for powering a PCI video capture and compression board using Intel’s wavelet-based Indeo interactive video compression technology. The company’s video compression semiconductors are based on its proprietary architecture, which combines a RISC microprocessor, an advanced DSP core, specialized video processing circuitry, and SRAM technology. 1-2 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ENGINEERING CORPORATION North American Company Profiles ACC Micro ACC MICRO ACC Microelectronics Corporation 2500 Augustine Drive Santa Clara, California 95054 Telephone: (408) 980-0622 Fax: (408) 980-0626 Fabless IC Supplier Company Overview and Strategy ACC Microelectronics Corporation (ACC Micro™) was established in 1987 to design, develop, and market a variety of VLSI circuit devices for computer system control, computer system board integration, and communication applications. The company's flagship products are a line of single-chip solutions targeted at the desktop, notebook, and subnotebook computer industries. Management Wei-Tau Chiang, Ph.D. President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Shieu Vice President, Engineering Products and Processes ACC Micro supplies chipsets and controller chips for 386/486-based and Pentium-based computers. Other products include buffer chips, power management chips, and single-device floppy-disk controllers. Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities ACC Micro has second-source licensing agreements with Motorola to support delivery schedules. INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ENGINEERING CORPORATION 1-3 Actel North American Company Profiles ACTEL Actel Corporation 955 East Arques Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94086-4533 Telephone: (408) 739-1010 Fax: (408) 739-1540 Web Site: www.actel.com Fabless IC Supplier Regional Headquarters/Representative Locations Europe: Actel Europe Ltd. • Basingstoke, Hampshire, England Telephone: (44) (1256) 29209 Financial History ($M), Fiscal Year Ends December 31 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Sales 41 56 76 109 149 Net Income (0.3) 5 8 (1) 15 R&D Expenditures 9 11 14 21 24 Foundry Fab Investment — — 4 3 4 Employees 168 211 245 320 356 Company Overview and Strategy Founded in 1985, Actel Corporation designs, develops, and markets field programmable gate arrays (FGPAs) and associated software development systems and programming hardware. Its products are used by designers of computer and computer peripheral, telecommunications, military, aerospace, industrial control, and other electronic systems. Military/Aerospace ROW 11% 5% Japan 10% Computers/ Peripherals Communications/ Europe 21% Networking 18% 46% United States Industrial Control 67% 22% 1996 Sales by End-Use Market 1996 Sales by Geographic Region 1-4 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ENGINEERING CORPORATION North American Company Profiles Actel Actel is a leader in the development of antifuse-based FPGAs and believes it was the first company to achieve volume production of such devices. The company's objective is to become the leading supplier of FPGAs by fully exploiting the capabilities of its proprietary antifuse and circuit architectures. In April 1995, Actel completed the acquisition of the antifuse FPGA business of Texas Instruments, which was the only second-source supplier of Actel’s products. Development Systems 3% FPGAs 97% 1996 Sales by Product Type Management John C. East President and Chief Executive Officer Esmat Z. Hamdy Senior Vice President, Technology and Operations Jeffrey M. Schlageter Senior Vice President, Engineering David M. Sugishita Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration, and Chief Financial Officer Michelle A. Begun Vice President, Human Resources Douglas D. Goodyear Vice President, Worldwide Sales Dennis F. Nye Vice President, Marketing Robert Smith, Ph.D. Vice President, Software David L. Van De Hey Vice President and General Counsel Warren Miller Director, Silicon Planning and Strategic Applications Robert Nalesnik Director, Product Marketing David Stieg Director, North American Distribution Sales Products and Processes Value Series • The ACT1 family consists of two devices, a 1,200-gate part and a 2,000-gate (6,000 PLD equivalent gates) part, and offers system performance of up to 25MHz. This family of circuits utilizes 1.0µm or 0.9µm CMOS technology. • The ACT2 family consists of three devices ranging from 2,500 to 8,000 gates (20,000 PLD equivalent gates) and offers system performance of up to 50MHz. This family of circuits utilizes 1.0µm CMOS technology. INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ENGINEERING CORPORATION 1-5 Actel North American Company Profiles Accelerator Series • The ACT3 family consists of devices ranging from 1,500 to 10,000 gates (25,000 PLD equivalent gates) and on-chip performance of up to 250MHz (system performance up to 75MHz). This family of circuits is based on 0.8µm double-level-metal CMOS technology. • The ACT3 PCI family consists of fully PCI-compliant devices with 4,000 to 10,000 usable gates and on-chip performance of up to 250MHz. This family of circuits is based on 0.6µm double-level-metal CMOS technology. Integrator Series • The 1200XL family features parts ranging from 2,500 to 8,000 gates and offers system performance of up to 60MHz. This family of circuits is based on 0.65µm CMOS technology. • The 3200DX family is Actel’s newest series of FPGAs with capacities ranging from 6,500 gates to 40,000 gates and offering system performance of up to 100MHz. These high-performance FPGAs offer fast dual-port SRAM, fast decode, and data path circuitry based on 0.65µm double-level-metal CMOS technology. Reprogrammable SPGAs • Actel’s ES family of system programmable gate arrays (SPGAs) are non-antifuse PLDs designed to address the system-on-a-chip market. The fine-grained array of logic module blocks enables gate counts from 50,000 gates up to 400,000 gates. The SRAM-based SPGAs permit the integration of complex intellectual property (IP) cores and support in-system programmability (ISP). Actel jointly developed the SPGA technology with the Silicon Architects Group of Synopsys. Radiation-Hardened FPGAs • Actel’s RadHard family of FPGAs currently consists of radiation-hardened versions of its 2,000-gate ACT1 device and its 8,000-gate ACT2 device. These devices were first shipped in 1996 and ramped more quickly than any other product in the company’s history. The RadHard family is based on 0.8µm double-level-metal epitaxial bulk CMOS technology jointly developed with Lockheed-Martin Federal Systems. Mask Programmed Gate Arrays (MPGAs) • Offered as an alternative
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