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QLogic Corporation was an American manufacturer of networking server and storage networking connectivity and application acceleration products, based in

Aliso Viejo, California Aliso Viejo (Spanish for "Old Sycamore") is a city in the San Joaquin Hills of southern Orange County, California. It had a population of 52,176 as of the 2020 census, up from 47,823 as of the 2010 census. It became Orange County's 34th city ...

through 2016. QLogic's products include

Fibre Channel Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to Server (computing), servers in storage area networks (SAN) in ...

adapters, converged network adapters for

Fibre Channel over Ethernet Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a computer network technology that encapsulates Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet networks. This allows Fibre Channel to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks (or higher speeds) while preserving the Fibre Channel ...

(FCoE),

Ethernet Ethernet ( ) is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 198 ...

network interface controller A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network. Early network interface ...

iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface or iSCSI ( ) is an Internet Protocol-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. iSCSI provides block-level access to storage devices by carrying SCSI commands over a TCP/IP ...

adapters, and

application-specific integrated circuit An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC ) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use, such as a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficienc ...

s (ASICs). It was a public company from 1992 to 2016.

History

QLogic was created in 1992 after being spun off by

Emulex Emulex Corporation was an American computer hardware company active from 1978 to 2015. The company was a provider of computer network connectivity, monitoring and management hardware and software. The company's I/O connectivity offerings, inclu ...

. QLogic's original business was disk controllers. QLogic had its

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investm ...

in 1994 and was traded on

NASDAQ The Nasdaq Stock Market (; National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the U.S. by volume, and ranked second on the list ...

under the symbol QLGC. Originally located in a

Costa Mesa, California Costa Mesa (; Spanish language, Spanish for "coastal tableland") is a city in Orange County, California, United States. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to an urban area including ...

building adjacent to Emulex, it competed against its parent company in the market for

controllers for

storage area network A storage area network (SAN) or storage network is a computer network which provides access to consolidated, block device, block-level data storage. SANs are primarily used to access Computer data storage, data storage devices, such as disk ...

s. QLogic acquired companies including NetXen.

Integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

designer Silicon Design Resources Inc. based in

Austin, Texas Austin ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and W ...

, was acquired for about $2 million in 1998. In May 2000, QLogic acquired Fibre Channel switch maker Ancor Communications for about $1.7 billion in stock. Little Mountain Group, founded in 1999 and developer of

technology, was acquired in January 2001 for about $30 million. The compiler company

PathScale PathScale Inc. was a company that developed a highly optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compiler suite for the x86-64 microprocessor architectures. It derives from the SGI compilers for the MIPS architecture R10000 processor, called MIPSPro. His ...

was acquired for about $109 million in February 2006. Silverstorm Technologies, which designed

InfiniBand InfiniBand (IB) is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computers. InfiniBand is also used ...

products, was acquired in October 2006 for about $60 million. After attempting to use PathScale for

cluster computing A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system. Unlike Grid computing, grid computers, computer clusters have each Node (networking), node set to perform the same task, controlled an ...

over InfiniBand, the compiler business was sold to SiCortex in August 2006. QLogic was led by chairman H.K. Desai from 1996, who became executive chairman in 2010 until his death in June 2014. In 2012, the InfiniBand products were sold to

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

for $125 million. Simon Biddiscombe became chief executive in November 2010, until resigning in May 2013 after two years of falling revenue. Prasad Rampalli became chief executive a few months later, until August 2015. Jean Hu became acting CEO again at that time. QLogic announced it was being acquired by

Cavium Cavium, Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company based in San Jose, California, specializing in ARM-based and MIPS-based network, video and security processors and SoCs. The company was co-founded in 2000 by Syed B. Ali and M. Raghib Hussain, ...

in June 2016, for about $1 billion over its balance sheet cash. After the deal closed in August 2016, job cuts were announced. It announced it would move to

Irvine, California Irvine () is a Planned community, planned city in central Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It was named in 1888 for the landowner James Irvine. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the ...

in 2017. Cavium was acquired by

Marvell Technology Group Marvell Technology, Inc. is an American company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, which develops and produces semiconductors and related technology. Founded in 1995, the company had more than 6,500 employees as of 2024, with over 10,000 ...

in 2018.

Products

The company makes a range of networking products for storage and converged networks. Storage networking products include

caching adapters, Fibre Channel adapters,

adapters and

Fibre Channel switch In the computer storage field, a Fibre Channel switch is a network switch compatible with the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. It allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric, that is the core component of a storage area network (SAN). The fabri ...

es. Converged network products include Converged Network Adapters and Intelligent Ethernet Adapters.

Acquisitions

In 2005, QLogic acquired Troika Networks and storage virtualization products. Later in 2009, it acquired NetXen and Intelligent Ethernet Adapter products. In 2014, QLogic signed a broad technology alliance agreement with Brocade Communications Systems and acquired its fibre channel and converged network adapter business.

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