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PMC-Sierra, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and supports semiconductor solutions for communications network infrastructure equipment worldwide. Its semiconductor devices enable networking equipment primarily in three markets, including storage, optical, and mobile networks. The company’s storage products comprise RAID-on-chip, protocol controllers, flash controllers, host bus adapter and serial attached small computer system interface expanders, and MIPs processors that enable high-speed communication servers, switches, and storage devices to store, manage, and move large quantities of data securely. Its optical products include wide area network communication products focusing on metro and access networks, including optical transport network, synchronous optical networks, asynchronous transfer mode, and fiber to the home; and ethernet framers, mappers, MAC, synchronous digital hierarchy framers, cross connects, and T1/E1 mappers/framers, as well as EPON/GPON ONU and OLT processors. The company’s optical products are used in optical transport platforms, multi-services provisioning platforms, and edge routers where they gather, process, and transmit disparate traffic to their next destination in the network. Its mobile products consist of WinPath network processors, T1/E1framers and mappers, and radio frequency integrated circuit devices that are used in 2G, 3G, and 4G wireless base stations and mobile backhaul equipment; and TEMUX and UFE framer products, combiner/serializers, radio RF devices, transceivers/framers, and clocking devices. The company sells its products directly, as well as through distributors and independent manufacturers’ representatives to equipment and design manufacturers. PMC-Sierra, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.