Acquisitions
Throughout the years, AppliedMicro has acquired smaller companies to enter new markets.
| Date | Acquired Company | Expertise | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 1998 | Ten Mountain Design | transceiver design | |
| March 1999 | Cimaron Communications | SONET chips | $115M in stock |
| April 2000 | Yuni Networks | teribit switch fabrics | $241M in stock |
| April 2000 | Chameleon Technologies | fibre channel and SONET products | |
| April 2000 | PBaud Logic Inc. | SONET and forward-error-correction | |
| September 2000 | Silutia | CMOS mixed-signal design | 566,000 shares of stock |
| October 2000 | MMC Networks | network processors | $4500M in stock |
| March 2001 | Raleigh Technology Corporation (RTC) | Ethernet QoS ASICs | |
| September 2003 | PowerPRS product line from IBM | switch fabrics | $47M |
| December 2003 | JNI | fibre channel products | $196M in cash |
| April 2004 | PowerPC 400 series product line from IBM | embedded microprocessors | $227M in cash |
| April 2004 | 3ware | RAID controllers | $150M in cash |
| August 2006 | Quake Technologies | 10Gb Ethernet transceivers | $69M in cash |
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