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Description: The QLogic Corporation was spun off from mother company, Emulex. Its offices are in California. It employs more than 900 people. The company is run by a board of directors headed by the chairman H.K. Desai. The lead director of the board is George Wells. Other members of the board are Jim Fiebiger, Kathryn Braun and Balakrishnan Iyer.

It started in 1994 and was immediately traded in the stock market. Its stocks use the symbol QLGC. The corporation also acquired a number of companies: Ancor, Little Mountain Group, PathScale and SilverStorm. The original product made by the company was disk controllers. This asset of the business was sold to Maxwell in 2005.

QLogic pioneered a number of technological firsts. In 1996, it launched the earliest embedded transceiver for use with the Fibre Channel (FC). The earliest hard disk controller with an embedded transceiver was released in 1997. The company bought the company Silicon Design Resources, Inc.

In 2000, QLogic bought the Ancor Communications Company and the switch product catalogue from SANbox. In 2003, it launched the first FC blade server switches and HBAs. More firsts were developed and released in 2004. These are the 10Gb FC technology and stackable FC switch.

Troika Networks was acquired in 2005. In 2006, it purchased PathScale, Inc., the InfiniBand adapter and switch products line and SilverStorm Technologies. At the end of the 2008 fiscal year, the company reported 597.9 million US dollars in revenue.

It manufactures a number of products. These include host bus adapters, host channel adapters, storage routers and SAN storage switches. Aside from devices, the company also offers a number of software. This includes the InfiniPath MPI and the PathScale Compiler Suite. The latter can be used to develop programs written in the programming languages Fortran95, C and C++.

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