Editing PMC-Sierra (section)

== Technology ==
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PMC-Sierra provided broadband communications and storage [[semiconductors]] for metro, access, fiber to the home, wireless infrastructure, enterprise and channel storage, laser printers and customer premises equipment. PMC had more than 250 different semiconductor devices<ref name="directory"/> that were sold to equipment manufacturers, who in turn supplied their equipment to communications network service providers and enterprises. As a [[fabless]] semiconductor company, PMC-Sierra designed and tested products, with wafer fabrication and assembly outsourced functions to third party suppliers.

PMC-Sierra's customers included [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]], [[EMC Corporation]], [[Huawei]], [[Cisco]], [[Alcatel-Lucent]], [[Fujitsu]], [[Hitachi]], [[Mitsubishi]], [[ZTE]] and [[Juniper Networks|Juniper]].

===Storage===
PMC-Sierra offered products for storage networks and systems.<ref name="storage"/> The company provided an interconnect and controller product family for SAS and SATA storage systems and [[server computer]] RAID controllers. PMC-Sierra provided [[Fibre Channel]] controller and system interconnect products. PMC-Sierra acquired the channel storage business from [[Adaptec]]. This business was named "Adaptec by PMC" and made SAS/SATA RAID Adapters. In July 2013 PMC completed the acquisition of IDT's Flash controller business<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investor.pmcs.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74533&p=irol-newsArticle_Print&ID=1837550|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108043627/http://investor.pmcs.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74533&p=irol-newsArticle_Print&ID=1837550|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 January 2016|title=PMC Completes Acquisition of IDT's Enterprise Flash Controller Business|date=July 15, 2013|publisher=PMC|access-date=18 November 2015}}</ref> and in August 2014 introduced the Flashtec line of non-volatile memory drives.

===Communications===
PMC-Sierra offered communication ICs for metro access, metro transport, FTTH/PON, Ethernet over SONET/SDH, Optical Transport Network (OTN) and wireless base transceiver stations (BTS).<ref name="ethernet"/> PMC-Sierra sold products for what is known as [[Ethernet in the first mile]], which generally uses a [[passive optical network]] to residential areas.{{citation needed|date=January 2011}} PMC-Sierra semiconductor devices allowed wireless service providers to deploy wireless [[mobile phone]] network equipment.<ref name="wireless"/> This included [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]]-based network processors for wireless back haul and [[radio frequency]] integrated circuits for wideband radio modules. The company's UniTRX chipsets were highly integrated, low-power RFICs for wideband radio modules that operated in the 400&nbsp;MHz to 4&nbsp;GHz frequency range. These solutions addressed the performance requirements of 3GPP and 3GPP2 macro base station radio transceivers with support of multiple standards such as MC-GSM, cdma2000®, WCDMA, and LTE.

The company's DIGI-G4 chipset was PMC's latest OTN processor, and it enabled the transition to 400G line cards in OTN switched metro networks. It is the industry's densest single-chip 4x100G OTN processor with 50 percent less power per port. In March 2015 the PMC DIGI-G4 OTN processor was awarded a Lightwave Innovation Award <ref name="lightwaveonline.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/innovation-awards/pmc-digi-g4-otn-processor.html|title=PMC DIGI-G4 OTN Processor|author=Lightwave Staff|access-date=18 November 2015|archive-date=19 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119082628/http://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/innovation-awards/pmc-digi-g4-otn-processor.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with the judges citing "...substantial new features, technologies, and capabilities included in the upgrade..."<ref name="lightwaveonline.com"/>

===Printers===
PMC-Sierra has discrete and system-on-chip products for both laser and multi-function printers.