Vitesse is a leader in the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of digital GaAs ICs. The Company's products incorporate its proprietary H-GaAs (high integration gallium arsenide) technology to produce high-performance ICs primarily for telecommunications, data communications and automated test equipment ("ATE") systems providers. The Company believes H-GaAs technology provides significant advantages over silicon-based IC technologies in addressing the combination of speed, power dissipation and complexity requirements of these high-performance systems providers. In fiscal 1996, sales of telecommunications, data communications and ATE products represented 52%, 8% and 24%, respectively, of the Company's total revenues. The Company's major customers include Lucent, Alcatel, Credence, Ericsson, Schlumberger, Seagate, Tellabs and Teradyne.
PMC-Sierra develops, markets and supports high-performance semiconductor system solutions for advanced communications markets. The Company's products are used in broadband communications infrastructures, high bandwidth networks and multimedia personal computers. The Company is a leading supplier of ATM and SONET/SDH integrated circuits in the communications infrastructure and networking markets, and also provides these markets with T1/E1 and DS3/E3 integrated circuits.
Two fine companies in their own right but neither do what BRCM does and with a combined market cap of $8.9B and still not get what their looking for?
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