Lattice Semiconductor,即莱迪思半导体,NASDAQ: LSCC,是全球智能互连解决方案市场的领导者,生产高性能可编程逻辑器件(FPGAs,CPLDs和SPLDs),提供市场领先的IP和低功耗、小尺寸的器件,帮助超过8000家遍及全球的客户快速实现创新、满足各种不同成本需求、开发节能高效的产品。公司的终端市场涵盖消费电子产品、工业设备、通信基础设施和专利授权。Lattice公司在全球有700多雇员,年收入约为3亿美元,FPGA的市场份额全球第三,CPLD市场份额全球第二。

莱迪思创建于1983年,总部位于美国俄勒冈州波特兰市(Portland, Oregon)。莱迪思于2015年3月收购矽映电子(Silicon Image),这家公司非常成功地引领并推动了HDMI®、DVI、MHL®和WirelessHD®等行业标准的制定。

公司地址(上海莱迪思半导体有限公司)- 上海研发中心:

  • 上海市闵行区田林路1036号
  • 科技绿洲三期四6号楼整幢
  • Tel: +86 21 61265126
  • Fax: +86 21 52989890

主要产品线

软件工具

  • FPGA设计软件:Lattice Diamond
  • ICE40超低密度器件的设计软件:iCEcube2
  • 针对Lattice PLD和成熟产品的设计环境:ispLEVER Classic
  • 支持SERDES调试、适用于ECP3器件的基于PC的图像化设计界面:ORCAstra
  • 为采用Power Manager和Platform Manager器件的设计开发量身定制的软件:PAC-Designer
  • 对Lattice的所有器件下载编程:Programmer

历史

Lattice was founded on April 3, 1983, by C. Norman Winningstad, Rahul Sud and Ray Capece. Winningstad, Harry Merlo, Tom Moyer, and John Piacentini were the early investors in the company. Co-founder Sud left as president in December 1986, and Winningstad left in 1991 as chairman of the board. Lattice was incorporated in Oregon in 1983 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1985. Early struggles led to chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in July 1987. The company emerged from bankruptcy after 62 days and moved into a smaller headquarters in Hillsboro, Oregon, from what was then an unincorporated area near Beaverton.

The next year the company posted then record revenues while shrinking from 140 employees to 75 employees after the bankruptcy. Cyrus Tsui became the company's chief executive officer in 1988. On November 9, 1989, Lattice became a publicly traded company when its shares were listed on the NASDAQ after in initial public offering. The initial share price was $6, and raised almost $14 million in capital for the company. In July 1990, Lattice raised an additional $22.6 million from a second stock offering, selling nearly 1.5 million new shares at $16.25 per share.

In 1995, the company attempted to assert trademark rights in the term Silicon Forest beyond the use of its trademark for the use in semiconductor devices. They had registered the mark in 1985, but later conceded they could not prevent the usage of the term as a noun. Forbes ranked the company as their 162nd best small company in the United States in 1996.

In 1996, Lattice began expansions at its Hillsboro, Oregon, headquarters to double the size of the facility. The company grew to annual revenues of more than $560 million and profits in excess of $160 million in 2000. Its stock price reached an all-time high that year of $41.34 per share, as adjusted for stock splits. Lattice purchased Agere Corporation's FPGA division in 2002. Steve Skaggs was hired as CEO in 2005, replacing Cyrus Tsui. That year, Lattice had layoffs for the first time in company history. For fiscal year 2006, Lattice posted a profit of $3.1 million on revenues of $245.5 million, this was the first annual profit for the company since 2000.

In 2004, the company settled charges with the United States government that it had illegally exported certain technologies to China, paying a fine of $560,000. In June 2008, Bruno Guilmart was named as chief executive officer of the company, replacing Steve Skaggs. For fiscal year 2008, Lattice had a loss of $32 million on annual revenues of $222.3 million. In 2009, the company began moving all of its warehouse operations for parts from Oregon to Singapore. Through July 2009, the company had lost money for ten straight quarters, and had its first profitable quarter in three years during the fourth quarter of 2009. Bruno Guilmart left the company in August 2010, and Darin Billerbeck who just sold Zilog in last year, was named the new CEO in October of that year, starting in November. The company reported 2011 revenue of $318 million. For the first quarter of 2012 Lattice reported revenue of $71.7 million. Lattice reported revenue of $70.8 million for the second quarter of 2012. Lattice started a stock buy-back program in 2010 that continued into 2012 that would total about $35 million if fully implemented.

On December 9, 2011, Lattice announced it was acquiring SiliconBlue for $63.2 million in cash. Lattice announced in July 2012 a foundry agreement with United Microelectronics Corporation. In October 2012, the company announced third quarter revenue of $70.9 million and restructuring that included job lay-offs. Lattice returned to profitability in 2013 with a profit of $22.3 million on $332.5 million in revenues. The company acquired Silicon Image Inc. for $606 million in March 2015 and moved company headquarters to Downtown Portland.

In April 2016, Tsinghua Holdings said in a U.S. filing that it accumulated a roughly 6 percent stake in Lattice Semiconductor through share purchased on the open market.

经营状况

In addition to CPLDs & SPLDs, Lattice also manufactures field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable mixed-signal and interconnect products, related software and intellectual property (IP). Lattice's main products are the ECP and XP series of FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), the Mach series of CPLDs (complex programmable logic devices), the ispPAC POWR series of programmable power management products (programmable mixed signal FPAA) and Lattice Diamond design software. At the 90 nm node, Lattice offers a variety of FPGA devices. Products are used in a variety of end uses, such as flat-panel televisions and laptops.

The company is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, in the high-tech area known as the Silicon Forest. The company employs 700 people worldwide, with approximately 250 of those at company headquarters. Darin Billerbeck is Lattice's chief executive officer and president. Its chief competitors are Xilinx, Altera and Microsemi (previously Actel.)