MoSys, Inc.

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MoSys, Inc.
Type Public (NASDAQ: MOSY)
Founded USA (September, 1991)
Headquarters Sunnyvale, California
Flag of the United States United States
Key people Len Perham - President, Chief Executive Officer; Dhaval Ajmera - Vice President of Strategic Accounts; Hem Hingarh - Vice President of Engineering; Michael Maia - Vice President of Marketing
Industry semiconductor intellectual property (IP)
Products 1T-SRAM, 1T-FLASH, mixed-signal IP
Revenue $14.9 million USD (2006)
Employees >200
Website www.mosys.com
Not to be confused with MOSIS.

MoSys, Inc. (formerly Monolithic System Technology, Inc.) NASDAQ: MOSY is a USA company based in California, that develops, licenses and markets advanced memory and mixed-signal semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for use on systems-on-chips (SoCs) and other integrated circuits (ICs). The company's memory solutions include its patented 1T-SRAM and 1T-FLASH technologies, high-density alternatives to traditional volatile and non-volatile embedded memory. MoSys mixed-signal products include DVD front end IP that supports both Blu-ray (BD) and HD DVD formats; serial ATA (SATA) IP for high-speed storage interfaces; and gigabit Ethernet (GbE) IP for high-speed network equipment.

To date, MoSys technology has been shipped in over 135 million devices, including home entertainment and graphics applications, mobile consumer devices, and networking and storage equipment. For example, the Nintendo Wii game console uses MoSys 1T-SRAM memory IP. The company has more than 97 U.S. and 72 foreign patents and patents pending.

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  • 1T-SRAM: high-density alternative to embedded SRAM.
  • 1T-FLASH: high-density NOR flash memory alternative manufactured in a baseline CMOS logic process
  • BD/HD DVD IP: DVD front-end IP supporting wide range of formats, including Blu-ray (BD) and HD DVD
  • Serial ATA (SATA) IP: selected SATA functions available as IP
  • Gigabit Ethernet PHY IP: Physical layer transceiver for gigabit Ethernet

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MoSys Investor Information [1]