Gennum Corporation

Type	Public TSX: GND
Founded	1973
Headquarters	Burlington, Ontario
Key people	H. Patrick Thode (Chairman), Donald P. Woodley (Former Interim President and CEO)Franz Fink (President and CEO)
Industry	Semiconductors
Products	semiconductors and semiconductor-based products
Revenue	$142 million CAD (2005)[1]
Net income	$20.3 million CAD (2005)[1]
Employees	614 (2005)[1]
Subsidiaries	Gennum Japan Kabushiki Kaisha Gennum U.K. Limited
Website	www.gennum.com

Gennum (TSX: GND) is a Canadian manufacturer of semiconductors and semiconductor-based products. Founded in 1973 as Linear Technology Inc. by co-founders Douglas Barber and Wally Pieczonka, the company acquired the assets of Westinghouse Canada's Solid States Devices division.^[2] A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by a relatively few individuals. ... TSX logo The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is Canadas largest stock exchange, North Americas third largest stock exchange, and the sixth largest in the world. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Burlington (2001 population 150,836)[1] is a city located in the Golden Horseshoe, across Lake Ontario and Burlington Bay harbour from Hamilton, in Halton Region, Ontario, Canada. ... A semiconductor is a material that is an insulator at very low temperature, but which has a sizable electrical conductivity at room temperature. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... ISO 4217 Code CAD User(s) Canada Inflation rate 2. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In business, a subsidiary is a company controlled by another company or corporation. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... TSX logo The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is Canadas largest stock exchange, North Americas third largest stock exchange, and the sixth largest in the world. ... A semiconductor is a material that is an insulator at very low temperature, but which has a sizable electrical conductivity at room temperature. ... In electronics, solid state circuits are those that do not contain vacuum tubes. ...

Originally focused on serving the hearing instrument industry, Gennum now develops and markets products in three segments:

• Video timing, transport/transmission, and image processing products for the video broadcast industry (e.g., HDTV).
• Prosumer wireless headsets, and hearing instruments for the hearing impaired.
• Optical transceiver ICs and serial backplane interconnect ICs for data communications.

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External links

• Gennum
• Innovation in Canada: Burlington's Gennum Corporation is hearing innovation...

References

1. ^ ^a b c Gennum: 2005 Annual Report. Retrieved on 2006-07-13.
2. ^ Gennum Corporate History. Retrieved on 2006-07-13.