Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc.

Xilinx headquarters in the United States
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: XLNX NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Integrated Circuits
Founded	1984; 33 years ago (1984)
Founder	Jim Barnett Ross Freeman Bernie Vonderschmitt
Headquarters	San Jose, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Dennis Segers Chairman of the Board Moshe N. Gavrielov President CEO Director
Products	FPGAs, CPLDs
Revenue	US$ 2.382 billion (2014) US$ 2.168 billion (2013)
Operating income	US$ 748.927 million (2014) US$ 580.732 million (2013)
Net income	US$ 630.388 million (2014) US$ 487.536 million (2013)
Total assets	US$ 5.037 billion (2014) US$ 4.729 billion (2013)
Total equity	US$ 2.752 billion (2014) US$ 2.963 billion (2013)
Number of employees	3,500 - 2016
Website	xilinx.com

Xilinx, Inc. (/ˈzaɪlɪŋks/ ZY-lingks) is an American technology company, primarily a supplier of programmable logic devices. It is known for inventing the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and as the first semiconductor company with a fabless manufacturing model.

Founded in Silicon Valley in 1984, the company is headquartered in San Jose, USA, with additional offices in Longmont, USA; Dublin, Ireland; Singapore; Hyderabad, India; Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; Brisbane, Australia and Tokyo, Japan.

Major FPGA product families include Virtex (high-performance), Kintex (mid-range) and Artix (low-cost), and the retired Spartan (low-cost) series. Major computer software includes Xilinx ISE and Vivado Design Suite.