Ten years of mixed-signal innovation

Silicon Laboratories has achieved multiple industry firsts in the communications, wireless, networking, power and microcontroller markets.

Silicon Laboratories is celebrating ten years of mixed-signal innovation.

By fundamentally changing semiconductor architectures, Silicon Laboratories has achieved multiple industry firsts in the communications, wireless, networking, power and microcontroller markets.

Silicon Laboratories has built a portfolio of market leading products leveraging mixed-signal trade secrets, a world-class engineering team and more than 700 issued or patent pending innovations.

Silicon Laboratories was founded by Nav Sooch, Dave Welland and Jeff Scott in 1996 in Austin, Texas to develop world-class mixed-signal ICs.

The company's initial product was an analogue modem for personal computers (PCs).

Ten years later, the company is now a global enterprise with operations, sales and design activities worldwide.

The company became profitable just two years after its inception and completed a successful initial public offering (IPO) in 2000.

Today, Silicon Laboratories is a publicly traded, approximately $500 million company, leading mixed-signal innovation across a broad set of products.

"Few companies have grown as consistently and profitably as Silicon Labs".

"By striving for excellence in all that we do, we've been able to create a company with not only strong products and financial performance, but a sustainable values-oriented culture and a history of giving back to our community", said Nav Sooch, Silicon Laboratories' cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

"We are very proud of what the team has accomplished over the last decade, and we're enthusiastic about the future potential of the business".

"Over the next ten years, we'll be leveraging expanded resources, the best team of mixed-signal engineers in the world and our cycles of learning to bring our technology leadership to brand new markets".

Acknowledged by leading trade publications, Silicon Laboratories' products have received more than 20 design awards.

The company has rapidly established a leadership position in many major semiconductor markets and has shipped close to 2 billion CMOS-based mixed-signal ICs including: one billion analogue modems designed into over 50% of PCs and satellite set-top boxes worldwide; 600 million Aero GSM/GPRS transceivers in hundreds of different cellular handsets; 80 million VoIP ICs shipping into products across the majority of VoIP deployments; and nearly 40 million MCUs and over 50,000 MCU development kits.

"Mixed-signal is at the forefront of the next generation of innovation as the analogue world we live in and the digital world of computing continue to intersect".

"Over the next ten years, we'll see power consumption and battery life improve in portable devices, dramatically increasing the convergence of functionality in these products".

"Broadcast technology will become highly portable; power supplies, wireless networks, and remote monitoring will become commonplace, and bandwidth requirements will continue to increase", said Necip Sayiner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Laboratories.

"The end result is a marketplace ripe for innovation that makes technology less expensive, less power hungry and easier to use".

"We excel in this environment and look forward to the next ten years of developing product innovations in the areas where we compete".

Consistently recognised as one of Texas's fastest growing companies, Silicon Laboratories has a financial framework built on best practices that has resulted in a strong balance sheet with excellent cash growth, a cash balance of over $400 million and no debt.

This prudent financial management has enabled continued investment in research and development to further build the company's arsenal of patented, mixed-signal innovations.

Voted by employees as one of the best places to work in Central Texas, Silicon Laboratories has a winning culture that has allowed the company to maintain its focus as it has grown.

Silicon Laboratories' employees pride themselves on their commitment to core values that include open, transparent communication, continuous innovation, refusal to compromise on the quality of talent, a collaborative work environment, a desire to win and a dedication to commercial success.

Silicon Laboratories is also committed to sharing its financial success with the community and has donated funds and volunteer support to 40 local organisations that make a measurable difference in improving the quality of life in Austin.

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