Lattice Semiconductor Corp

XMUN:LTT

Business Description

Sector

Information Technology

Industry

Semiconductors

Headquarters

United States of America US

Employees

1 174

IPO date

Nov 9, 1989

Lattice Semiconductor makes programmable chips called FPGAs, along with the software tools that let engineers design them into products. These chips are not fixed-purpose processors; customers can reconfigure them to handle specific tasks such as control logic, interface bridging, and image or sensor processing. The company sells mainly to electronics makers that need flexible chips with low power use and a small physical footprint.

Its main customers are industrial, communications, automotive, and consumer-device companies, plus original equipment manufacturers and design teams that build embedded systems. Lattice makes money by selling its chips, related software, and support to customers that need a reliable component supplier over the life of a product. In many cases, its chips are designed into a device early and then stay there for years, which makes the relationship important and sticky.

What makes Lattice different is its focus on smaller, lower-power programmable logic rather than the larger, more power-hungry FPGAs used in high-end computing. That puts it in a niche where flexibility matters, but so do battery life, heat, and board space. In plain terms, Lattice helps other companies add custom digital functions to their products without designing a new chip from scratch.