The transition process of putting together Microsemi and Actel since the takeover has been completed, according to Russ Garcia, head of the SOC products group at Microsemi which now incorporates the Actel product line.
"The transition has been done," said Garcia, "we will do more integration on the sales standpoint, but the size of the company is now done – the people part has been done. If there had been a lot of product overlap we would have taken longer, but there’s zero product overlap – it fits in so well."
Although there’s no product overlap, there’s an 80% customer overlap in the military, aerospace and industrial markets, and Microsemi’s strategy with the Actel product line is to use it to push its own offerings to existing customers further up the integration and value chain.
Microsemi will not invest in further development of the antifuse product line, but is looking for further technology migration of the flash-based line which, only recently, announced 65nm product.
Asked if the next migration currently being planned would be to go to 45nm or direct to 32nm, Garcia declined to comment.
Asked if customers would be found to subsidise the migration, Garcia also declined to comment. This has, however, been Microsemi’s practice in the past.
As for the consumer product lines, Garcia said: "We are not focussed on consumer markets but we will supply to the consumer market on an opportunistic basis. There are high value consumer sockets and there are low value consumer sockets. We will supply high value sockets."
"This is a very differentiated, unique product," added Garcia, "which needs to go into sockets that value differentiation."