Exar Corporation (EXAR)

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Exar Corporation (Exar) is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, sub-contracts manufacturing and sells highly differentiated silicon, software and subsystem solutions for industrial, telecom, networking and storage applications. The Company’s product portfolio includes power management and interface components, communications products, storage optimization solutions and network security solutions. Applying both analog and digital technologies, its products are deployed in a wide array of applications, such as portable electronic devices, set top boxes, digital video recorders, telecommunication systems, servers, enterprise storage systems and industrial automation equipment. Exar provides customers with a breadth of component products and subsystem solutions based on advanced silicon integration. On March 16, 2010, Exar completed the acquisition of Neterion Inc.