Exar Corporation

Fremont, CA United States

  (NASDAQ: EXAR)

Company Description

Exar seeks excellence in the exacting world of integrated circuits. The fabless semiconductor company's digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) are used in networking equipment -- especially telecom infrastructure gear -- as well as in video and imaging devices, such as handheld electronics, set-top boxes, and DVRs. It also makes ICs and subsystems for the power management and datacom and storage markets, including storage optimization and network security processors. Exar's customers include Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, LG Electronics, NEC, Panasonic, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Samsung Electronics. The company gets more than three-quarters of its sales outside the US.