Actel Corporation · Mountain View, CA United States ·(NASDAQ (GM): ACTL)

Actel acts to design and sell programmable chips. The company makes field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), a type of integrated circuit that can be programmed by users for specific functions. Actel sells FPGAs to a broad range of manufacturers in the telecommunications, military, industrial equipment, computer, consumer electronics, and automotive industries. Actel makes high-speed, anti-fuse FPGAs, as well as flash-based FPGAs; it also offers design software and programming hardware used to configure and test its chips. The fabless semiconductor company's customers include Boeing, Cisco Systems, Magna Electronics, Nortel Networks, and Siemens. The US represents about half of sales. To read the full description, subscribe now.