SIPEX SEMICONDUCTORS - ACTIVE COMPONENTS

Sipex designs, manufactures and markets high performance, high value-added analog ICs. The products are produced for three fast-growing markets: data communications and communications, battery/portable products, industrial controls/instruments. The company's main product lines include: interface circuits, low-power special application analog ICs and data conversion products. Based on these three products, Sipex's unique positioning is to provide complete analog device solutions to thousands of customers around the world who manufacture wired and wireless data communication hardware, networking and telecommunications equipment, and portable devices. Since 1992, Sipex has released more than 100 varieties of high performance analog ICs. The company is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, with manufacturing locations and product design centers in California and Massachusetts. Sipex Corporation designs, manufactures and markets pproximately 1,000 ICs that grouped into three product families: power management, serial interface, and optical storage.

Power management ICs group includes Low Drop Out linear regulators, DC to DC switching regulators, PWM controllers, charge pumps, and microprocessor supervisors.

Sipex is a semiconductor company that designs, builds and markets high performance, high value-added analog integrated circuits. Its products are widely used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) engaged in high-growth markets such as the Internet, computers, communications and optical storage. Power management ICs group includes Low Drop Out linear regulators, DC to DC switching regulators, PWM controllers, charge pumps, and microprocessor supervisors. The serial interface product group contains RS-232, RS-485, high speed, differential transceivers, and dual and multi-protocol transceivers. The serial interface product group contains RS-232, RS-485, high speed, differential transceivers, and dual and multi-protocol transceivers.

The optical storage product family offers complete electronic solutions that enable faster read speeds and smaller footprints in the pick up heads of DVD-R/W, DVD-RAM, and CDRW systems. This family includes photo-detector ICs, laser diode drivers, and advanced power control ICs.

An analog semiconductor company that specializes in standard linear and application specific products, Sipex Corporation announced a merger with Exar Corporation in 2007. Sipex offers the widest selection of serial transceivers. It includes single-protocol integrated circuits supporting RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485, as well as dual-protocol integrated circuits and multi-protocol integrated circuits supporting 2-8 of the most commonly used interface standards. Semiconductor lines provided by Sipex fall into three specific application lines; optical storage, interface and power management. Headquartered in Milpitas, CA before the merge, Sipex also contained operations within Asia and Europe.

Sipex Corporation Semiconductor Components:
Photo-Detector ICs
Laser Diode Drivers
Power Control ICs
High-Speed Transceivers
Differential Transceivers
Multi-Protocol Transceivers
Linear Regulators
DC to DC Switching Regulators
Microprocessors

Exar Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAR) announced that it has closed the previously announced merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of Exar with Sipex Corporation, effective August 25, 2007.

Sipex designs, manufactures and markets high performance, high value-added analog ICs. The products are produced for a fast-growing market: data communications and communications, battery/portable products, industrial controls/instruments. The company's main product lines include: interface circuits, low power special application analog ICs and data conversion products. Since 1992, Sipex has released more than 100 varieties of high performance analog ICs. The company is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, and has manufacturing locations and product design centers in California and Massachusetts.