Stock Report: LSI Corp. (LSI) Report Updated: Nov 16, 2009  |  Print This Page

LSI Corporation engages in the design, development, and marketing of semiconductors and storage systems. Its Semiconductor segment offers integrated circuits for hard disk and tape drive solutions, including systems-on-a-chip, read channels, pre-amplifiers, serial physical interfaces, and hard disk controllers, as well as custom firmware; and magnetic and optical disk drives, and disk and tape-based storage systems. This segment’s hard disk and tape drive electronics are used to store and retrieve data in personal computers, corporate network servers, archive/back-up devices, and consumer electronics products, such as digital video recorders, game consoles, and digital media players. It also offers networking solutions that include chips, such as network processors, digital signal processors, content-inspection processors, traffic shaping devices, and physical layer devices, as well as software, evaluation systems, and reference designs to homes, businesses, and mobile users over Internet protocol networks. The Storage Systems segment provides a line of open, modular storage products that comprises complete systems and sub-assemblies, such as storage controller modules, disk drive enclosure modules, related management software, and data protection software for creating local and remote copies of critical data. Its products and solutions are used in various open operating systems, such as Windows, UNIX and UNIX variants, and Linux environments. This segment’s products serve Internet-based applications, such as online transaction processing and e-commerce, data warehousing, video editing and post-production, and computing. The company has operations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. LSI Corporation serves original equipment manufacturers through a network of direct sales and marketing, and field engineering offices. The company, formerly known as LSI Logic Corporation, was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.