SIPEX

Sipex Corporation is a semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets a broad portfolio of high performance, value-added, analog integrated circuits (ICs) for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) doing business in the high growth markets of networking, computing, communications, and optical storage.
With close to four decades of history, Sipex Corporation has been a publicly held company since 1996. Its common stock trades on NASDAQ under the symbol ¡°SIPX¡±

Sipex's approximately 1,000 Integrated Circuits (ICs) are grouped into three product families. With these three product families, Sipex is uniquely positioned to provide complete analog solutions to thousands of customers worldwide who manufacture wired and wireless data communications hardware, networking and telecommunications equipment, and portable consumer devices.

Providing better power efficiency, lower quiescent current, and longer battery life in a small package, this product group includes low drop out linear regulators, DC to DC switching regulators, PWM controllers, charge pumps, and microprocessor supervisors.

Sipex offers one of the broadest selections of serial protocol transceivers. These include single protocol ICs that support RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485 as well as dual and multiprotocol ICs that support from 2 to 8 of the most popular interface standards with a single IC.

The optical storage product family enables faster read speeds and offers smaller footprints in the pick up heads of DVD-R/W, DVD-RAM, and CDRW systems. This family includes photo-detector ICs, and advanced power control ICs.