Silicon Labs
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- Founded
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas
- Type
- Fabless semiconductor company
- Website
- silabs.com
The Austin company that gathered the smart home's radio protocols — Zigbee, Thread, Bluetooth and Matter — onto a single chip.
Silicon Laboratories was founded in 1996 in Austin, Texas. Its EFR32 "Wireless Gecko" family runs several IoT protocols on one chip: Zigbee, Thread, Bluetooth LE, Z-Wave and Matter. The company bought the Z-Wave business from Sigma Designs in 2018, becoming one of the few to cover almost every smart-home standard at once.
In 2021 Silicon Labs sold its infrastructure and automotive unit to Skyworks for $2.75 billion and refocused on IoT. Alongside the radios it also makes clock and timing chips.