LSI Corporation designs, develops, and markets storage and networking semiconductors worldwide. Its storage product portfolio includes hard disk, solid state, and tape drive solutions, which enable the reading and writing of digital data to and from the storage media, including the hard disk drive or the flash memory cell in a solid state drive; server and storage connectivity solutions, which facilitate secured data transfers between host systems comprising servers and storage devices; and custom storage solutions that enable high speed storage data communication between servers and external storage systems over a switched storage network, such as a fiber channel storage area network. The company also designs and sells enterprise networking devices for applications, such as Ethernet switches and routers; and other networking solutions for multi-service wired and wireless access systems found in carrier networks, as well as solutions typically used in small office, home office, and small-to-medium business applications. Its networking solutions include communication processors, network processors, media processors, content-inspection processors, and physical layer devices, as well as software tools and segment specific applications, evaluation systems, and reference designs. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers in the server, storage, and networking industries, as well as through a network of resellers and distributors. LSI Corporation was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. LSI Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc.