Mindspeed

O wonder! How fast are Mindspeed Technologies' chips? Faster than human synapses! Mindspeed designs a line of semiconductors, including network processors, DSL transceivers, and fiber-optic components. Its chips are used in wireline and wireless network equipment, such as optical switches, high-speed routers, and multiplexers. Mindspeed sells to kingpin OEMs of networking and telecommunications gear such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Huawei, and Nokia Siemens Networks. Some 80% of sales are made outside of the Americas. The company originated as the Internet infrastructure subsidiary of Conexant Systems; Mindspeed was spun off in 2003.