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Xperi

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Type
  
Public

Website
  
www.xperi.com

Revenue
  
273.3 million USD (2015)

Net income
  
117 million USD

Area served
  
Worldwide

Founded
  
1990

Number of employees
  
264 (December 31, 2015)

Operating income
  
162.2 million USD (2015)

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Traded as
  
NASDAQ: TSRA S&P 600 Component NASDAQ: XPER

Industry
  
Semiconductor packaging

Key people
  
Richard Hill (Chairman) Tom Lacey (CEO)

Headquarters
  
San Jose, California, United States

Subsidiaries
  
DTS, DigitalOptics Corporation

Profiles

Xperi Corporation (formerly Tessera Holding Corporation) is a San Jose, California-based technology that innovates and licenses technology and intellectual property to customers and others who implement it for use in areas such as mobile computing and communications, memory and data storage, and 3-D Integrated Circuit (“3DIC”) technologies, among others. Technologies include semiconductor packaging and interconnect solutions, and products and solutions for mobile and computational imaging. Tessera has licensed its chip packaging technology to numerous semiconductor manufacturers, including Intel and Samsung Electronics.

As the company has grown and evolved, it expanded business through the acquisition of FotoNation, which specializes in image and video enhancement and analysis; and the formation of Invensas, an innovator in next-generation semiconductor and packaging technologies.

History

Tessera was founded in 1990.

Some company milestones are listed below:

  • 1990: company founded by former IBM research scientists
  • 1994: Hitachi and Shinko Electric Industries Ltd. license Tessera technologies
  • 2005: Acquired assets of Shellcase MVP
  • 2006: Acquired DigitalOptics Corporation
  • 2008: Acquired FotoNation
  • 2009: Won International Trade Commission ruling against Motorola, Qualcomm, Freescale Semiconductor and Spansion in May,
  • 2009: Samsung licenses Tessera technologies
  • 2011: Founded Invensas Corporation
  • 2013: Sold Micro-Optics business
  • 2013: Closed leased manufacturing facility in Zhuhai, China, and consolidated manufacturing capabilities in Taiwan.
  • 2014: Announced cessation of mems|cam manufacturing operations
  • 2016: Acquired DTS Inc.
  • February 2017: Changed name from Tessera Holding Corporation to Xperi Corporation
  • References

    Xperi Wikipedia