Xilinx, Inc. · San Jose, CA United States ·(NASDAQ (GS): XLNX)

Xilinx is programmed to give you the gate. The company is a top supplier of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs). Customers can program these integrated circuits to perform specific functions, thereby achieving greater design flexibility while cutting time to market. Xilinx also offers a broad range of design software and intellectual property used to customize its chips. The company sells to manufacturers -- including Agilent, Cisco Systems, IBM, and Sony -- in the aerospace, automotive, computer, consumer electronics, industrial control, networking, and telecommunications markets. Customers outside the US account for about two-thirds of the company's sales. To read the full description, subscribe now.