Milestones

2006

• LSI announces ZEVIO™ processor architecture for consumer market. ZEVIO speeds time-to-market and enables low-cost, low-power 3D graphics and sound features for consumer electronics products.
• LSI and YesVideo introduce integrated DVD recorder software for indexing video content.
• LSI will focus on business growth opportunities in information storage and consumer markets.
• LSI first to demo Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) switch.

2005

• United States Patent and Trademark Office awards LSI its 3,000th patent.
• LSI announces new leadership team; will focus on primary markets (custom integrated circuits, consumer products, and storage platforms and products); Abhi Talwalkar named LSI president and CEO.

2004

• LSI introduces industry’s first single-chip 3 Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controller IC.
• Seagate Technology demonstrates the LSI RapidChip Platform ASIC technology in its Savvio (Savvy I/O) family of 2.5-inch enterprise-class disc drives.

2003

• LSI introduces industry’s first single-chip hard disk drive (HDD) and DVD recorder processor, the DoMiNo® 8650, for use in dual-drive digital recorders.
• LSI achieves 80 percent market penetration with its Ultra320 SCSI server controller, garnering key design wins with major OEMs.
• LSI partners with Beijing E-world to develop technologies for new high-definition format in China called EVD (enhanced versatile disc).

2002

• LSI introduces the G90™ 90-nanometer ASIC process technology, built upon a process platform jointly defined by LSI and TSMC.
• LSI becomes the first company to make a full line of Ultra320 SCSI host bus adapters (HBAs) available commercially.
• LSI introduces innovative semiconductor platform, RapidChip®.

2001

• LSI acquires consumer market leader C-Cube Microsystems Inc. in an accretive stock-for-stock transaction valued at $851 million.

2000

• LSI introduces industry’s first dual-channel PCI to Fibre Channel integrated controller featuring 2 Giga Baud data rates per channel.
• LSI announces Gflx™ 0.13-micron ASIC process technology, which offers 78 million usable logic gates.

1999

• Sony Computer Entertainment selects LSI to supply key I/O processor for its next generation PlayStation video game system, featuring 100 percent backward compatibility to the first PlayStation.

1998

• LSI introduces its G12™ ASIC 0.18-micron process technology, offering up to 26 million usable logic gates on a single chip.

1997

• LSI unveils G11™ 0.25-micron ASIC process technology, offering more than 8 million usable gates.
• The BBC selects LSI to develop a single-chip digital terrestrial television solution.
• LSI wins an Emmy Award for developing a real-time estimation encoder for General Instruments Corporation (now Next Level Systems).

1996

• LSI announces industry’s first Fibre Channel core, with automated control functions for disk drives, RAID arrays, Internet servers, video-on-demand, imaging and transaction processing.
• LSI announces industry’s first 1.25-billion bit-per-second CMOS serial transceiver, the GigaBlaze™ G10 SeriaLink® Core.

1995

• LSI introduces a new generation of ASIC process technology, the G10™ series, offering up to 5 million usable gates.

1994

• Sony Computer Entertainment introduces the PlayStation® video game system, featuring the LSI system-on-a-chip capability and using the company’s CoreWare design program.

1993

• LSI introduces 0.5-micron ASIC technology, capable of integrating up to nine million transistors on a single chip.
• CoreWare methodology is utilized to develop the LSI ATMizer™, the industry’s first single-chip reprogrammable solution for asynchronous transfer mode networking.

1992

• LSI introduces CoreWare® design program, a new approach to developing systems and building complete electronic systems on a single chip.
• LSI delivers the industry’s first RISC microcontroller with floating-point capability on-chip; target is cost-sensitive embedded applications where power and space are critical.

1991

• LSI develops JPEG (still picture), MPEG (full-motion video), and video-teleconferencing products for digital video markets.
• LSI participates in two HDTV (high definition television) projects in Japan. (Only U.S. company selected.)
• LSI introduces the industry’s first single-chip embedded graphics controller, targeting high-performance graphics applications.

1989

• LSI listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LSI.
• World’s first all-ASIC workstation is produced based on LSI technology.

1988

• LSI becomes the only semiconductor company to offer 32-bit RISC microprocessors for both MIPS and SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture).
• LSI LCB007 becomes the industry’s first cell-based custom ASIC capable of integrating 200,000 gates on a single chip.

1986

• LCB15 Series cell-based ASIC family offers high density and performance and rivals full custom design methodologies. Based on 1.5-micron HCMOS process technology.
• LSI introduces its first standard product line, including 32-bit and 16-bit multipliers, 16-bit multiplier accumulators and 32-bit floating-point processors.

1985

• LSI announces LCA10000 Compacted Array Family, with 50,000 available gates.

1984

• LL8000 Series 2-micron gate array product family introduced.

1983

• LSI becomes public company with initial offering of $152 million; common stock is traded on NASDAQ as LLSI.
• LSI introduces concept of regional ASIC engineering design centers, bringing service closer to customers

1982

• LL3000 Series CMOS Gate Array (3.5 micron, 2,500 gates) announced.
• LL5000 Series (3-micron, 2-layer metal) introduced.

1981

• LSI Logic Corporation founded; designs semiconductors customized to the specific application requirements of customers. ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) market emerges.
• LC3100 Series of CMOS arrays (1,782 gates) announced.

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