2000 headquarters san jose california usa key people jack harding founder and ceo ; warren ligan cfo ; robert cadman vp global sales ; ajay lalwani vp asic product line ; patrick soheili vp and gm ip solutions ; linda rogers vp human resources products asics number of employees 450 2012 website www.esilicon.com esilicon is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 in san jose california . esilicon designs and manufactures digital cmos asics . in addition esilicon designs customizable memory ip and provides multi project wafer services . esilicon is considered a pioneer of the fabless asic model and is the world s largest independent semiconductor design and manufacturing services provider . their strength is in developing and delivering complex chips with an average of about 20 chips per year . the company has more than 275 completed designs . dubious discuss 1 contents 1 locations 2 history 3 products 4 manufacturing 5 milestones 6 references 7 external links locations edit esilicon s headquarters is in san jose california . esilicon has offices in allentown pa ; new providence nj ; shanghai china ; seoul korea ; bucharest romania ; singapore ; and vietnam one design center in ho chi minh city and another in da nang . history edit since its founding in 2000 esilicon has received a total of 86m in venture capital . 2 in 2002 esilicon became widely known as the supplier of a key apple inc. ipod asic through portalplayer . 3 2004 revenues reached 91m largely driven by asics for the ipod . in 2006 apple announced that they were changing their ipod asic strategy and esilicon no longer supplies asics for the ipod . 4 following the loss of the ipod business esilicon diversified its customer base and announced in may 2008 that they were profitable and shipping asics to over 50 customers . 5 in january 2008 esilicon acquired the assets of swedish based ethernet networking switch supplier switchcore ab and announced that they would seek further acquisitions . 6 rumors of esilicon preparing to file for an ipo have circulated on and off since 2003 . 7 8 9 products edit esilicon provides physical design design for test insertion package design product qualification ip licensing and manufacturing services for digital cmos asics . esilicon has announced products in .25 um .18 um .13 um 90 nm 65 nm and 40 nm process technologies . customer asics have been announced in a wide range of applications including digital cameras portable multimedia players inkjet printers networking and high performance computing . in february 2008 it was announced that esilicon had licensed avago technologies high performance 90 nm and 65 nm serdes technology for use in esilicon s customer s designs . 10 manufacturing edit as a fabless company esilicon outsources all semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries . since esilicon s founding it has had a relationship with tsmc as its primary foundry partner . 11 esilicon also outsources all package assembly and test . milestones edit 2000 2003 pioneers the value chain producer vcp model based on industry megatrends adds design teams coming primarily from bell labs murray hill new jersey and allentown pennsylvania adds netlist engagement model focuses on north american customers builds infrastructure to run and manage business patents esilicon access 24x7 production management tool creates globaldesign private cloud based hosted design environment 2004 2007 to date record revenue driven primarily by inclusion of customer s chip in apple ipod diversifies to reduce concentration in consumer segment adds gdsii engagement model to expand sam served available market establishes engineering center in romania through acquisition of sycon design begins engagement with emea customers 2008 current establishes manufacturing operations center in shanghai china gsa global semiconductor alliance announces vcp as an official market segment creates a board seat acquires silicon design solutions sds with two engineering centers in vietnam 170 full time employees for its custom ip business adds semiconductor manufacturing services sms engagement model organizes into three business units asic ip and sms for business focus and growth references edit asic specialist esilicon expands strategy seeks acquisitions . 2008 05 06 . esilicon corporation secures 15 million in funding . business wire . 2005 02 14 . morrison gale 2002 01 21 . esilicon outsource and thrive design strategies . electronic news . portalplayer dealt setback at apple . 2006 04 19 . esilicon achieves significant milestone by booking production orders from more than fifty customers . 2008 05 22 . esilicon esilicon acquires switchcore s product lines . reuters . 2008 01 14 . mullins robert 2003 09 12 . latest vc funding has esilicon thinking ipo . ipo on the cards for esilicon next year . 2006 10 24 . esilicon unveils hardcore macrocell program . 2007 06 18 . esilicon licenses avago technologies high performance embedded serdes cores . reuters . 2008 02 27 . esilicon joins tsmc design center alliance ; custom chip provider further streamlines silicon delivery process . business wire . 2004 03 08 . external links edit esilicon homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title esilicon & oldid 682846741 categories companies established in 2000fabless semiconductor companiescompanies based in san jose californiahidden categories all accuracy disputesarticles with disputed statements from january 2009 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 26 september 2015 at 13 31 . 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