Adaptec
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| Type | Public shell company: |
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| Industry | Computers |
| Fate | Sold all of its remaining business operations to PMC-Sierra in 2010 |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Headquarters | Milpitas, California, USA |
| Key people | S. "Sundi" Sundaresh, former CEO |
| Products | None. Formerly data equipment, most notably SCSI host adapters |
| Revenue |  US$ 167.40 Million (2008)[1] |
| Operating income |  US$ -40.48 Million (2008)[1] |
| Net income | US$ -9.62 Million (2008)[1] |
| Total assets | US$ 700.09 Million (2008)[1] |
| Total equity | US$ 424.10 Million (2008)[1] |
| Employees | 391 (December 2008)[1] |
| Website | http://www.adaptec.com/ www.adaptec.com |
Adaptec is a computer hardware brand owned by PMC-Sierra that is used on some of its host adapters for connecting storage devices to computers. The production line of Adaptec is in Indonesia. Products are made to interface with SCSI, Serial ATA, and Serial attached SCSI. Some of its host adapters are used to perform SSD caching of hard drives. Adaptec is also used to brand battery modules to support its host bus adapters and storage interface cables.
Adaptec, Inc. was the name of a company based in Milpitas, California that produced these products until it sold substantially all of its business operations to PMC-Sierra on June 18, 2010, and is now a shell corporation known as ADPT Corporation. Historically, this company used to produce interface products involving USB, IEEE 1394, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and video. Adaptec once produced CD and DVD burning software under the brand names of Easy CD Creator and Toast, and network-attached storage devices like the Snap Server product line.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f "ADPT - Adaptec, Inc. - Google Finance". http://www.google.com/finance?q=adpt. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- The New York Times: November 2, 1999 - Adaptec Looks To Strengthen Data-Storage Line
- The New York Times: November 7, 2002 - News Watch: Digital Recorders; An Afterlife on Disc For That Fading Video "Adaptec is one of several companies selling kits for converting analog tapes to digital video at affordable prices."
- PMC Sierra: June 18, 2010 - press release about the acquisition
