On 8/21/2014 9:50 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-08-22, Valeri Galtsev<galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >> > >> >3ware was independent company till it was first bought by AMCC, then LSI >> >bought them from AMCC. I didn't know LSI sold them to someone else, > Sorry, I was not clear: LSI was bought, not just 3ware. If you look at > LSI's home page, it says "An Avago Technologies Company". there's been a whole lot of merging and splitting. Avago used to be HP's semiconductor business, was spun off in the great split/merger with Compaq as part of Aglient, then in 2005 kicked to the curb as an independent. They are big on analog, mixed signal, and microwave semiconductors. LSI had acquired 3Ware, ONStor, a bunch more, and merged them into Engenio, which was their NAS/SAN division, making OEM storage arrays sold by IBM, HP, Dell and others. Engenio has been sold to Network Appliance, the original NAS company. LSI acquired the Sandforce SSD chip business. Avago acquired and merged with LSI. Avago unbundled Sandforce and sold it to Seagate. Avago sold LSI's networking stuff to Intel just last week. AFAIK, Avago still sells the LSI sas chips and both megaraid and 3ware raid controllers. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast