About Silicon Labs
Silicon Labs is a fabless company that designs microcontrollers, wireless system-on-chips and modules, and sensors for Internet of Things devices. Its parts support wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Wi-Fi and Matter, and it also supplies software tools such as the Simplicity Studio development platform. The company is focused on low-power connected devices rather than data center compute. It was founded in 1996 by Nav Sooch, Dave Welland and Jeff Scott and is based in Austin, Texas. Texas Instruments announced in February 2026 that it intends to buy the company for $7.5 billion.
Silicon Labs was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States. It is listed under Custom Silicon, Edge Computing. Its shares trade as SLAB on NASDAQ.
Compute Technologies
- Wireless MCUs
- IoT Connectivity
What Silicon Labs works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
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