nasdaq tsra industry semiconductor packaging founded 1990 1990 headquarters san jose california united states of america area served worldwide revenue us 273.3 million fy 2015 operating income us 162.2 million fy 2015 net income us 117 million number of employees 264 december 31 2015 website www.tessera.com founded in 1990 tessera technologies inc. is a san jose california based technology that innovates and licenses technology and intellectual property to customers and others who implement it for use in areas such as mobile computing and communications memory and data storage and 3 d integrated circuit 3dic technologies among others . technologies include semiconductor packaging and interconnect solutions and products and solutions for mobile and computational imaging . tessera has licensed its chip packaging technology to numerous semiconductor manufacturers including intel and samsung electronics . 2 as the company has grown and evolved it expanded business through the acquisition of fotonation which specializes in image and video enhancement and analysis ; and the formation of invensas an innovator in next generation semiconductor and packaging technologies . history edit tessera was founded in 1990 . some company milestones are listed below 1990 company founded by former ibm research scientists 1994 hitachi and shinko electric industries ltd. license tessera technologies 2005 acquired assets of shellcase mvp 3 2006 acquired digitaloptics corporation 2008 acquired fotonation 4 2009 won international trade commission ruling against motorola qualcomm freescale semiconductor and spansion in may 5 2009 samsung licenses tessera technologies 2011 founded invensas corporation 2013 sold micro optics business 2013 closed leased manufacturing facility in zhuhai china and consolidated manufacturing capabilities in taiwan . 6 2014 announced cessation of mems cam manufacturing operations references edit tessera technologies inc. google finance . retrieved august 15 2016 . vance ashlee august 16 2009 . a determined outpost of tiny technology . the new york times . retrieved august 17 2009 . tessera completes acquisition of shellcase assets . ee times . retrieved 28 december 2005 . tessera completes acquisition of fotonation . bloomburg . retrieved 12 february 2008 . tessera shares climb on patent ruling . wirelessweek . associated press . may 22 2009 . retrieved august 17 2009 . tessera technologies announces strong second quarter 2014 results . bezinga . businesswire . retrieved 4 august 2014 . external links edit tessera technologies companies grouped at opencorporates this united states corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tessera technologies & oldid 734663752 categories united states company stubstechnology companies established in 1990fabless semiconductor companiescompanies listed on nasdaqhidden categories opencorporates groupingsall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 august 2016 at 21 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view