About MACOM Technology
MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductors for data center, telecommunications, and industrial and defense uses. Its range covers high-speed optical, RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, including components for optical links in data centers and amplifiers for radar and satellite systems. The business traces its roots to Microwave Associates, founded in 1950. The current company was incorporated in Delaware in 2009, completed its IPO in 2012, is headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, and trades on Nasdaq under MTSI.
MACOM Technology was founded in 1950 and is based in Lowell, MA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, Analog Computing, Interconnect & Networking. Its shares trade as MTSI on NASDAQ.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
- Analog Computing
What MACOM Technology works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
Analog Computing
Analog computing represents numbers as continuous physical quantities, such as voltage or current, rather than as strings of 0s and 1s. The physics of the circuit does the calculation. For example, Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law let a grid of resistors multiply and add numbers at once.
Interconnect & Networking
Interconnect is the set of links that move data between chips, between boards and between racks. It includes wires on a package, cables inside a server, and the network switches and optical fibre across a data center. A processor is only as useful as the speed at which it can get data in and out.
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