PMC-Sierra

PMC-Sierra(R), the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, offers its customers technical and sales support worldwide through a network of offices in North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. PMC-Sierra provides semiconductor solutions for Enterprise Storage, Wide Area Network Infrastructure, Fiber To The Home, and Laser Printer markets. The Company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the PMCS symbol. For more information, visit http://www.pmc-sierra.com.

see also:- PMC-Sierra - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

• editor's comments:- in May 2010 - PMC-Sierra entered the SSD market by announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Adaptec's channel storage business for approximately $34 million in cash. This deal includes Adaptec's RAID storage product line, its global VAR customer base, board logistics capabilities, and (most significantly) SSD cache performance solutions.
  
  In my storage market outlook 2010 to 2015 article - published last year - I explained why I thought that the enterprise RAID controller market couldn't stay as it was.
  
  These companies have to get into offering complete SSD solutions in the long term. In the short term PMC-Sierra may be able to do a better job aggregating a bigger percentage of whatever remains of the untied RAID controller business.
  
  I expect the RAID business (for hard disks) will eventually become a consumer / SMB market - while the enterprise storage array part of this market will morph through an SSD ASAP phase - while users struggle to redefine new storage architectures for the datacenter.