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News Release from: Pericom Semiconductor Corp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 August 2007
Semiconductor subsidiaries merge
SaRonix-eCera will provide frequency control product solutions for customers in networking, storage, wireless, computing and consumer applications.
SaRonix and eCera, formerly two separate Pericom entities, have now become one wholly-owned subsidiary of Pericom Semiconductor Corporation The new entity will operate as a business unit within Pericom, closely aligned with the other Pericom product groups SaRonix-eCera will provide frequency control product solutions for customers in networking, storage, wireless, computing and consumer applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"SaRonix-eCera's vertical integration will result in cost-effective, high-performance solutions and streamlined product development and manufacturing cycles for our customers", said Alex Hui, Chairman, President and CEO of Pericom Semiconductor.
"The synergy provides customers with the industry's most timing solutions that can be based on quartz, silicon, or a combination of both".
"And they have the additional benefit of obtaining their complete timing solutions from one source".
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"SaRonix-eCera offers high volume, very small surface mount frequency control products, world-class manufacturing capability ensuring quality products and is complemented by IC and crystal design teams in US, China and Taiwan", said Lou Chang, President of the SaRonix-eCera subsidiary.
"By combining the two entities, we now have the benefit of vertical integration and shared resources".
"We believe this action will not only help us achieve our previously-stated growth targets, but also position us for continued long-term growth".
Markets addressed by SaRonix-eCera are large and growing.
The GSM mobile phone market is estimated to be close to 1 billion units a year in 2009 according to Strategy Analytics.
iSuppli estimates 900 million units of Bluetooth products will be shipped in 2007.
The WLAN market for 802.11n standard is estimated to be over 100 million units of ports by 2010 according to iSuppli (June 2007).
Hard disk drive shipments employing serial connectivity are estimated at more than 60 million according to IDC (Octover 2006).
Market research firm Dell'Oro estimates more than 320 million units of Ethernet ports are expected to be shipped in 2010, with the majority in Gigabit Ethernet.
According to PMC-Sierra, more than four million ethernet passive optical networks (EPON) have been deployed using their fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) solutions.
Pericom acquired SaRonix in 2003.
Taiwan-based eCERA Corporation, an SMD quartz-crystal-and-oscillator-component supplier was acquired by Pericom in 2005.
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