Raza Microelectronics Inc

RMI Corporation

Logo with original name
Fate	Merged into NetLogic Microsystems, then Broadcom
Founded	2002
Founder	S. Atiq Raza
Products	Network processors
Website	www.rmicorp.com

RMI Corporation, formerly Raza Microelectronics, Inc., was a privately held fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Cupertino, California, which specialized in designing system-on-a-chip processors for computer networking (known as network processors) and consumer media applications.

Saiyed Atiq Raza had founded NexGen, which was acquired by AMD in 1996. Raza was AMD's President and Chief Operating Officer in the late 1990s after the NexGen acquisition. He left AMD in 1999 and founded Raza Microelectronics, Inc. in 2002. In 2003, SandCraft Inc folded, and Raza acquired the rights to its intellectual property. Behrooz Abdi became president and CEO in November 2007, and Raza Microelectronics changed its name to RMI Corporation in December 2007. In January 2008 Raza settled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over an allegation of insider trading during 2006. RMI was not affiliated with Foundries Holdings, LLC, formerly known as Raza Foundries, Inc. In 2008, RMI merged with NetLogic Microsystems, which was acquired by Broadcom in 2012.

RMI had four product lines: three developed internally and one acquired.

The XLR (introduced circa 2005) was a multicore, multithreaded CPU used for network processing. XLR integrated circuits had 2 to 8 MIPS architecture CPU cores, each extended to support 4 hardware threads. XLR processors included HyperTransport, PCI-X, Gigabit Ethernet, and IEEE floating point unit per core and optionally 10 Gigabit Ethernet interconnects. A 2.0 GHz clock rate for the XLP was announced in May 2009.