Introduction: SMSC was founded in 1971 and is a supplier of metal oxide semiconductors (MOS)/very large scale integrated circuits (MOS/VLSI). The company is headquartered in New York, USA and has engineering design centers in California, Texas, Massachusetts, and New York. We have sales bases in Asia, Europe, and the United States. At present, there are about 400 personnel. SMSC has achieved multiple industrial firsts, such as UART, single-chip LAN with digital data separator, CRT controller, floppy disk controller solution, etc. The company's main products include PC system logic PCI/O、 Local network, USB connection, and embedded control system, among which it leads the world in PCI/OIC. The company's main business includes providing mixed signal controllers, non PCI Ethernet, ARCNET (Additional Resource Computer Network), and MOST to the fields of consumer electronics, automotive information and entertainment, personal computers, and industrial applications ® Specialized solutions such as high-speed USB. As early as the 1970s, SMSC developed a proprietary semiconductor technology COPLAMOS, which served as the foundation for the development of MOSIC. Over the years of company development, SMSC has continuously made many new technological advancements, which have been integrated into its own products or authorized to other semiconductor manufacturers. Its customers are also some well-known PC and PC motherboard manufacturers. Today, SMSC I/O chips can be found on PC motherboards produced by many large companies such as Compaq, Dell, IBM, and Intel. SMSC was acquired and merged by MICROCHIP in 2012.
