8x8 Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) was originally founded in 1987 as a vendor of semiconductor products for the videoconferencing market. The company was originally named Integrated Information Technology Corporation, better known as IIT. NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A semiconductor is a solid whose electrical conductivity can be controlled over a wide range, either permanently or dynamically. ... A videoconference (also known as a videoteleconference) is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. ...

The company also produced floating point coprocessor and graphics accelerator chips for the mass-market personal computer market during the early 1990s. The floating coprocessors were produced for the 286, 386 and 486 generations of microprocessors. The company also started a 486 compatible microprocessor chip project, but this project never completed. A floating-point number is a digital representation for a number in a certain subset of the rational numbers, and is often used to approximate an arbitrary real number on a computer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A GeForce 4 4200-based graphics card A graphics card or video card is a component of a computer which is designed to convert a logical representation of an image stored in memory to a signal that can be used as input for a display medium, most often a monitor... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... This article is about the year 286. ... Theodosius I concludes peace with Persia, dividing Armenia between them. ... For the processor, see Intel 80486. ... Microprocessors, including an Intel 80486DX2 and an Intel 80386 A microprocessor (abbreviated as µP or uP) is an electronic computer central processing unit (CPU) made from miniaturized transistors and other circuit elements on a single semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) (aka microchip or just chip). ... For the processor, see Intel 80486. ...

In 1997, the company stopped these other product lines to return to its roots in videoconferencing chips and changed its name to 8x8. The company had an initial public offering in the same year. In 2003, the company stopped all semiconductor products to transition to a VOIP service provider under the Packet8 name. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a corporations common shares to public investors. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... IP Telephony, also called Internet telephony, is the technology that makes it possible to have a telephone conversation over the Internet or a dedicated Internet Protocol (IP) network instead of dedicated voice transmission lines. ...

The company shares are traded on Nasdaq using the symbol EGHT. NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ...