LEGERITY VOIP SEMICONDUCTOR PROFILE
Legerity’s history in the VoIP market extends as far back
as 2001. In the second quarter of 2001, Legerity reported that it had won over 30 new voice over broadband design wins in
its first quarter. Customers for its VoB chipsets at that time included Cisco, Copper Mountain, D-Link, Telco Systems and
Wave7 Optics. In 2001, Legerity reported that of the 100 plus design wins it obtained in 2001 over two-thirds of them were
for VoB applications. The company estimated that its market share in the VoB market for the year 2000 was 40 percent.
Legerity’s
VoIP products were selected by Amrivox Ltd. (Sept. 2005) for use in its Unified Telephone Adapters (UTAs). The UTAs are targeted
at the consumer market through the retail channel.
Today, Legerity, with over 14 million port shipments to the VoIP
market, ranks among the leaders in the VoIP semiconductor market. The company continues to supply its chips to major VoIP
companies. One of its major accounts has been ARRIS. In 2005, it reported that it had shipped over one million lines of VoIP
to ARRIS, which uses Legerity's Le792221 and Le79R241 chips.
Legerity, which was spun out from Advanced Micro Devices(NYSE:AMD),
still may have ties with the company. In September 2005, Advanced Micro Devices, as part of its Sailfish platform for the
development of triple-play settop boxes, reported that Legerity’s SLIC and AC-97 interface chip had been included in
the platform. Pixelworks Inc. (NASDAQ:PXLW) contributed its PWBSP-16 Broadband Signal Processor IC to the design. The Sailfish
II also includes AMD’s Alchemy Au1550 processor.
Legerity introduced its VE950 family of VoIP devices at the Spring
VON 2005 conference. The product family, which includes the Le9500A, Le9500b and Le9500C chips are Subscriber Line Interface
Circuits (SLIC) and are specifically designed to work with Broadcom’s family of VoIP chips, which include the BCM3341,
BCM3351, BCM3352 and BCM1101. Legerity’s SLIC’s have operating voltages of 75, 85 and 95 volts. Legerity’s
SLIC chips were originally priced at $1.95 in large volumes when they were announced.
In January 2005, VOCAL Technologies selected Legerity’s Le88111
VoicePort chip for the design of an analog terminal adapter. Victor Demjanenko, chief technology officer for VOCAL, at the
time, noted the cost-benefits of the chip, "As the leading supplier of voice IC technology for voice enabled modems, Legerity's
highly integrated Le88111 VoicePort provided the optimal solution for our ATA, allowing us to achieve our price target of
less than $10 per unit."
