EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. was a publicly traded

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, headquartered in Yokneam,

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, that developed and marketed

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. It was acquired by

Mellanox Technologies Mellanox Technologies Ltd. () was an Israeli-American multinational supplier of computer networking products based on InfiniBand and Ethernet technology. Mellanox offered adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon for markets including high ...

in 2016.

History

EZchip was co-founded in 1999 by Eli Fruchter, a Technion graduate in the field of

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and veteran of the Israel Defense Forces' 8200 intelligence unit, and Alex Tal who served as Ezchip's first CTO and V.P R&D. Until 2008, EZchip operated as a subsidiary of LANOptics, then a developer of

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ing chips and security software. After LANOptics completed its full acquisition of EZchip in January 2008, it changed its name to EZchip and its ticker symbol from LNOP to EZCH. Over the twelve-month period leading up to February 2012, shares of EZchip rose 40% on the Nasdaq index as demand for its processors grew and speculation increased that the company would get bought out. In July 2014, EZchip acquired

Tilera Tilera Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company focusing on manycore embedded processor design. The company shipped multiple processors in the TILE64, TILE''Pro''64, and TILE-Gx lines. After a series of company acquisitions, Tilera's in ...

, a company that develops high-performance multi-core processors, intelligent network interface cards and white-box appliances for data-center networking equipment, $130 million in cash.EZchip to Buy Tilera
/ref> In January 2016, a shareholder vote passed that approved the merger of

and EZchip. The acquisition was completed on 23 February 2016.

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