Adaptec
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- Company.name
- Adaptec, Inc.
- Company.logo
- Adaptec Logo 2.svg
- Company.image
- Adaptec hq.JPG
- Company.image_caption
- Adaptec HQ
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.founder
- Larry Boucher
- Company.fate
- Acquired by PMC-Sierra
- Company.hq_location_city
- Milpitas, California
- Company.hq_location_country
- United States
- Company.industry
- Computer storage
- Company.products
- RAID, host adapter
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Adaptec, Inc., was a computer storage company and remains a brand for computer storage products. The company was an independent firm from 1981 to 2010, at which point it was acquired by PMC-Sierra, which itself was later acquired by Microsemi, which itself was later acquired by Microchip Technology.
==History== thumb|Adaptec ACB-4000A Shugart Associates System Interface|SASI card from 1985. Larry Boucher, Wayne Higashi, and Bernard Nieman founded Adaptec in 1981. At first, Adaptec focused on devices with Parallel SCSI interfaces. Popular host bus adapters included the 154x/15xx ISA family, the 2940 PCI family, and the 29160/-320 family. Their cross-platform ASPI was an early API for accessing and integrating non-disk devices like tape drives, scanners and optical disks. With advancements in technology, RAID functions were added while interfaces evolved to PCIe and SAS.