Positioning itself around industry needs: ASIC vendor LSI

Over the last decade it has been going through a fundamental change, moving away from being a pure play ASIC company but using its skills in digital signal processing to become an ASSP provider in the storage and networking market.

On the way it has acquired companies big and small: from Agere Systems to storage specialist Symbios and this January, solid state disk controller Sandforce. But this had left the strategy a little broad, and over the last year it has returned to its roots as a pure play semiconductor vendor, selling off the systems business it acquired with Symbios to NetApp in March last year.

Read the full article on page 10 of our October digital edition.