2011 News

Fremont, California, December 28, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today announced a revision to its fiscal 2012 third quarter revenue and non-GAAP gross margin guidance. The Company currently expects revenue for the fiscal third quarter to be between $28 million and $30 million and non-GAAP gross margin to be between 48% and 50%. "The revenue outlook across all product lines has fallen bel...

1.8V to 6V Input Voltage Serves Low Voltage Core and RF Circuit Power Supplies Fremont, California, December 13, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAR) released today the XRP6272, a new low noise high performance LDO for up to 2 Amps point-of-loads. Supporting a single 1.8V to 6V wide input voltage rail, the XRP6272 provides a 2 Amps point-of-load with an adjustable output voltage. It is equally...

PowerXR (tm) Digital Programmable Power Controller, and Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) Selected for Prestigious Industry Recognition   Fremont, CA, December 7, 2011 – Exar’s Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) has recently won two 2011 EDN China Innovation awards. Continuing its market leadership position in interface solutions, Exar’s XR16M890 won “Best Product” in the anal...

Fremont, California, December 6, 2011– Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today announced that Louis DiNardo will join the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company on January 3, 2012. He will replace interim President and Chief Executive Officer Richard L. Leza. In addition, Mr. DiNardo will become a member of the Company’s Board of Directors on January 3, 2012.Mr. DiNardo bri...

Presentation and Whitepaper Highlight Server- and Workload- Optimization TechniquesFremont, California, November 29, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) technologist, John Fryar, will highlight server- and workload-optimization techniques in his presentation "PK Acceleration for Increased Server Performance" at the Server Design Summit in Santa Clara, California. Mr. Fryar's presentation is pa...

Fremont, California, November 7, 2011 - Exar Corporation (NasdaqGM: EXAR) today announced that Pete Rodriguez has resigned as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company and as a member of the Board of Directors."I am proud of the successes that have been achieved during my tenure as President and CEO but I have decided, for personal reasons, to resign," said Pete Rodriguez. "I believe t...

Internally Switched Cable Termination Enables RS-232 and RS-485/422 to Share Same Communication LinesFremont, California, November 7, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) added another versatile device to its single-chip RS-232/RS-485/RS-422 serial transceiver product family - the SP339. This device is Exar's first serial transceiver with internally switched cable termination for high speed RS-...

Industry's First Any Service, Any Port, Single-Chip Solution to Offer Latest OTN FeaturesFremont, California, November 3, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will demonstrate MXP2's any service, any port, single-chip OTN muxponder solution at the Ethernet Expo Americas Conference in New York City, booth #315. MXP2 provides a more efficient means of transporting a variety of traffic, including ...

Fremont, California, October 25, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR), today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 ending October 2, 2011.Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 were $36.1 million compared to net sales of $37.0 million for the prior quarter and $37.2 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2011.The GAAP gross margin for the second quarter of ...

Fremont, CA, October 17, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will hold its fiscal 2012 second quarter financial results conference call on October 25, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. PDT. Exar will release its fiscal 2012 second quarter financial results following market close on October 25, 2011. To access the conference call, please dial (800) 288-8961 after 1:20 p.m. PDT. In addition, a live webcast will...

Fremont, California, October 4, 2011 - Exar Corporation's (Nasdaq: EXAR) storage specialist, Gene Nagle, will co-present a SNIA tutorial on "Advanced Deduplication Concepts" at SNW Fall on Oct. 10, in Orlando, Florida. The tutorial will be an in-depth look at deduplication technology, which has now been around for a decade, and how the industry is expanding its use. Also covered in the tutorial w...

Demonstrates the Benefits of Hardware-Acceleration for Encryption, Authentication and Public Key Processing for OpenSSL at Interop, NY Fremont, California, October 3, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced today the addition of open source support for SSL and IPsec to their family of security processors and Express DX acceleration cards. This includes OpenSSL support for SSL and strong...

Feature-rich Devices Provide Increased Functionality and Flexibility for Existing or New DesignsFremont, California, September 27, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAR) unveiled today the XRA120x I²C/SMBus GPIO expander and XRA140x SPI GPIO expander product families - a total of 12 device offerings. Exar's GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) expander products enable straightforward serial ex...

Active Termination Provides Signal and Data Integrity during Data Access for DDR 1, 2 and 3 MemoriesFremont, California, September 26, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAR) unveiled today a SDRAM memory bus termination regulator supporting the latest DDR 3 SDRAM standard (SSTL-15).The XRP2997 provides a simple and economical solution for implementing an active bus termination in all equipment and...

Smart Talk™ Technology Minimizes Power Needed to Drive Multiple Strings of Multiple LEDs Fremont, California, September 26, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAR) unveiled today the XRP7618 an 8 channel constant current LED driver. Supporting up to 30V on its LED channel inputs, the XRP7618 is ideally suited to drive up to eight strings of multiple LEDs at currents up to 100mA. Several devices ca...

Fremont, California, September 12, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will announce several new power management and interface products at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Boston, MA to be held at the Hynes Convention Center, Monday, September 26, 2011 through Thursday, September 29, 2011. Exar will demonstrate the newly released products as well as showcase other products in booth #5...

Hosts "Test Drive your Power Design" Hands-on Training Session; Exar Executive to Present at Conference EventFremont, California, September 1, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will showcase its new digital power solutions - PowerXR -- at the Darnell Power Forum 2011 in San Jose, California at the DoubleTree Hotel. Exar marketing, engineering and sales staff will detail Exar's offerings for ...

Fremont, California, August 3, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR), today announced it has entered into a product license agreement with Zarlink Semiconductor (TSX: ZL). This agreement significantly expands the available market for both Companies by delivering dynamic power management and monitoring products to residential gateways. Exar's PowerXR technology will be used with Zarlink's low pow...

Exar Celebrates 40th Anniversary as Semiconductor Solution Provider and 25th Anniversary of Listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market Fremont, California, August 1, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAR) will mark its 40th anniversary as a semiconductor enterprise and 25th anniversary as a NASDAQ-listed company by conducting the market open ceremony at 6:30 a.m. PDT on August 4, 2011. Pete Rodriguez, Ex...

Non-GAAP Net Results Improve $5.3 million quarter on quarter Fremont, California, July 26, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR), today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 ending July 3, 2011. Net sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 were $37.0 million compared to net sales of $33.8 million for the prior quarter and $39.6 million for the first quarter of fisca...

MXP2 Delivers New G.709 OTN Features in a Low-Power, Single-Chip ASSP Fremont, California, July 19, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) began offering today the industry's first OTN muxponder solution that supports new G.709 features such as ODU0/ODUflex and GMP mapping. Exar's MXP2 ASSP is a low power, 8 Watts, 2 x 10G single chip solution that was specifically designed to help customers fut...

Exar expects to beat previous guidance Exar expects to achieve non-GAAP Operating Profitability Fremont, California, July 18, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today announced it expects net sales for its fiscal 2012 first quarter to be approximately $37 million as compared to the previous guidance of $34 million to $36 million. Exar also expects to achieve non-GAAP operating incom...

Fremont, CA, July 18, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will hold its fiscal 2012 first quarter financial results conference call on July 26, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. PDT. Exar will release its fiscal 2012 first quarter financial results following market close on July 26, 2011. To access the conference call, please dial (888) 428-4474 after 1:20 p.m. PDT. In addition, a live webcast will be availab...

Single and Dual-channel 1A Switches Provide USB 3.0 Performance and Highly Accurate (8%) Programmable Current Limit Protection for USB Hubs and Generic Power Distribution Ports Fremont, California, June 20, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAR) unveiled today the XRP252x series of two single and two dual-channel power distribution switches supporting the latest USB 3.0 and all earlier USB specif...

Fremont, CA, May 17, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced today that Pete Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer, and Kevin Bauer, vice president and chief financial officer, will be presenting at the B. Riley & Company Investor Conference on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. (PDT) at the Lowes Santa Monica Beach hotel in Santa Monica, CA.About ExarExar Corporation deli...

New Express DX 1825 and DX 1835 Cards Are Ideal for Entry and Midrange Servers, GatewaysFremont, CA, May 10, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today expanded the Express DX 1800 family with the addition of the DX 1825 and DX 1835 data reduction and security cards. The new cards are ideal for entry and midrange servers where cost per performance is a delicate balance. The Express DX 1800 card...

Fremont, CA, May 9, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced today that Pete Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer, and Kevin Bauer, vice president and chief financial officer will be presenting at the Jefferies 2011 Global Technology, Internet, Media & Telecom Conference on Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. (EDT).About ExarExar Corporation delivers highly differentiated ...

Fremont, California, May 5, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today reported financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended March 27, 2011.Net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 were $33.8 million compared to net sales of $35.4 million for the prior quarter and $38.5 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010.The GAAP gross margin for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011...

Fremont, California, May 2, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will showcase new power management and interface products in booth #2338 at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Silicon Valley to be held at the McEnery Convention Center, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 through Thursday, May 5, 2011.Exar's booth will feature displays of the most recently announced analog power and PowerXR™ family...

Fremont, CA, April 25, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will hold its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter and yearend financial results conference call on May 5, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. PDT. Exar will release its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter and yearend financial results following market close on May 5, 2011. To access the conference call, please dial (800) 230-1085 after 1:20 p.m. PDT. In addition, a live ...

Eltech Added as New Representative in Dynamic Region Fremont, California, April 12, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced the addition of Eltech, a Russian-based semiconductor distributor and representative, to further extend its sales and distribution coverage in Russia. "Eltech is a well respected and established broad-line distributor in Russia, with developed customer engagements...

Company's Storage Specialist to Deliver Tutorial on "Dedupe's Role in Disaster Recovery" Fremont, California, April 5, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will demonstrate the recently announced BitWackr 2.2 deduplication solution during the Storage Networking World (SNW) spring event, April 4 - 7, 2011 in Santa Clara, California. The demonstration will show the ease of integrating and managi...

Fremont, CA, April 4, 2011 - Exar Corporation's (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced today that industry veteran Chris Dingley with 25 years of semiconductor sales management experience, has joined Exar's management team as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales reporting to Pete Rodriguez, President and CEO. Mr. Dingley replaces Bentley Long who was Vice President of Global Sales. Exar would like to th...

Bitwackr™ 2.2 Enables Deduplication, Compression, Encryption Across All Tiers of Storage Fremont, California, April 4, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today announced the next-generation of Exar's BitWackr solution for Windows and Linux, offering multiple volume support, a 50% increase in I/O performance for primary storage applications and integration with the RSA key manager enabling E...

SP337 is one of Top 25 Most Accessed New Devices on EDN China's Website Fremont, CA, March 30, 2011 - Exar Corporation's (Nasdaq: EXAR) recently announced SP337 serial transceiver was one of the Top 25 most accessed new products on the EDN China website -- http://article.ednchina.com/hot/articleh.aspx?id=88419 -- for the first quarter of 2011. "We are very encouraged by the interest shown for t...

Latest Four-Channel IC Offers Industry's Most Advanced Feature Set, Lowest Power Consumption, and Highest Flexibility For Any Programmable Power Controller Fort Worth, TX, Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC) - March 7, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) added a significant new controller to its PowerXR family of programmable power system ICs. The XRP7724 is a highly in...

Fremont, California - March 4, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced today it is changing its plans to participate in the data center virtualization market and will stop development of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Cards. Products affected with this announcement are the Exar X3100 and Xframe acquired from Neterion in March 2010. This move to reduce expenses associated with the ...

Linear, Programmable Power ICs Demonstrated; Exar Executives Lead Conference Sessions Fremont, California -- February 28, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will demonstrate its latest linear and programmable power solutions at the 2011 APEC , March 6-10, 2011 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, booth # 637. Exar's booth will feature demonstrations of the PowerXR famil...

Fremont, California, February 23, 2011 - Exar Corporation's (Nasdaq: EXAR) I/O Virtualization Expert Leonid Grossman will present "10-Gigabit Ethernet I/O Virtualization - Managing SLAs for I/O Intensive Workloads in Virtualized Environments" at the Ethernet Technology Summit this week. Mr. Grossman's presentation, held during Tutorial 2TB: Ethernet and Virtualization, will review the strain virt...

Fremont, California, February 22, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will be showcasing its Power Management and Interface products at Embedded World 2011 in Nuremberg, Germany. Exar products can be seen March 1-3, 2011 in Hall 9, Stand 330. These products and the demonstrations highlight Exar's continuing focus on delivering high value differentiated silicon and software solutions.Power Mana...

Power Management, and Interface Products Showcased at Leading Industry Event Fremont, California, February 21, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will be showcasing its newest power management, and interface solutions at the China IIC show in Shenzhen, China from February 24-26, 2011 in booth #2G 10. Known for its continuing focus on product innovation, senior level Exar engineering and mar...

Selected for "Most Promising New Technology of the Year" Category Fremont, CA, February 21, 2011 - Exar's industry acclaimed family of programmable power solutions (PowerXR) is a finalist in the 2011 China Ace awards in the "Most Promising New Technology of the Year" category. "We're honored that PowerXR was recognized by the 2011 China ACE awards and has received such strong support from the C...

Device is Pin and Function Compatible to Industry's Most Popular 3 Amp Step-down Converters Fremont, California, February 15, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAR) unveiled today the XRP7665, a new synchronous Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) step-down converter with a maximum load current of 3 Amps and operating input voltage of up to 18V. This device is the latest addition to Exar's industry accla...

Fremont, California, February 14, 2011 – Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced today that Kevin Bauer, vice president and chief financial officer, will be attending the Deutsche Bank 2011 Small and Mid Cap Technology Conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Naples, Florida. Mr. Bauer will be presenting on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 9:20 a.m. (EST). A copy of the presentation will be avail...

Evaluation Boards, Software Drivers, Schematics, and On-line Configuration Tool Enable System Architects to Rapidly Complete their Designs   Fremont, California, February 14, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR), announced the availability of advanced development tools supporting the industry's fastest USB 2.0 compliant UART series. "Created with system architects in mind, and building o...

Exar's Proprietary Constant On-Time Architecture Reduces Solution Cost and Improves Line Regulation Fremont, California, February 7, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAR) unveiled today the XRP6124, a non-synchronous constant on-time step-down controller for up to 5 Amps point-of-loads. This device is the latest addition to Exar's family of step-down controllers and is offered in two versions: 1...

Fremont, California, February 1, 2011 – Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) announced today that Pete Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer, and Kevin Bauer, vice president and chief financial officer, will be attending the Stifel Nicolaus Technology, Communications & Internet Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California. Mr. Rodriguez and Mr. Bauer will be presenting ...

Fremont, California, January 25, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today reported financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter ended December 26, 2010.Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 were $ 35.4 million compared to net sales of $37.2 million for the prior quarter and $33.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2010. The GAAP gross margin for the third quarter of fisca...

Fremont, CA, January 17, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) will hold its fiscal 2011 third quarter financial results conference call on January 25 at 1:30 p.m. PDT. Exar will release its fiscal 2011 third quarter financial results following market close on January 25, 2011. To access the conference call, please dial (800) 230-1074 after 1:20 p.m. PDT. In addition, a live webcast will be avai...

Fremont, CA, January 3, 2011 - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR), today announced that its BitWackr for SAN reference platform has achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that the BitWackr for SAN reference platform has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List.Passing the extensive VMware-s...