As of December 18, 2013, Mindspeed Technologies Inc. was acquired by MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, and sells semiconductor solutions for communications applications in fixed and mobile broadband access, enterprise, metropolitan, and wide-area networks (WAN). The company offers communications convergence processing products that include ultra-low-power, multi-core digital signal processor system-on-chip products for the fixed and mobile carrier infrastructure, and residential and enterprise platforms. It also provides high-performance analog products comprising high-density crosspoint switches, optical drivers, and equalization and signal-conditioning solutions for switching, timing, and synchronization requirements in next-generation optical networking, enterprise storage, and broadcast video transmission applications. In addition, the company offers WAN communications products, which include transmission solutions and high-performance asynchronous transfer mode/multi-protocol label switching network processors that facilitate the aggregation, processing, and transport of voice and data traffic over copper wire or fiber optic cable to access metropolitan and long-haul networks. The company sells its semiconductor networking solutions directly to network infrastructure original equipment manufacturers; and indirectly through electronic component distributors and third-party electronic manufacturing service providers in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.