Profile: MEL'ANIKS TEHNOLOGIYOT, BE`AM (MLNX.O)

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., incorporated in March 1999, is a supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance interconnect products that facilitate data transmission between servers, communications infrastructure equipment and storage systems. The Company's products are part of a solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems. The Company provides solutions, which are based on and meet the specifications of the InfiniBand standard in addition to products that also support the Ethernet standard. The Company's InfiniBand products include adapter integrated circuits (ICs) and cards (InfiniHost product family) and switch ICs (InfiniScale product family). Its adapter and cards (ConnectX product family) also support the Ethernet interconnect standard in addition to InfiniBand. During the year ended December 31, 2008, sales to Hewlett-Packard accounted for 19% of the Company's total revenues, sales to Sun accounted for 17% of its total revenues, sales to QLogic Corporation accounted for 11% of its total revenues.

The Company provides adapters to server, storage, communications infrastructure and embedded systems original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as ICs or standard card form factors with PCI-X or PCI Express interfaces. Adapter ICs or cards are incorporated into OEM server and storage systems to provide InfiniBand and/or Ethernet connectivity. All of the Company's adapter products interoperate with standard programming interfaces and are compatible with previous generations. It also supports server operating systems including Linux, Windows, AIX, HPUX, OSX, Solaris and VxWorks.

The Company provides its InfiniBand switch ICs to server, storage, communications infrastructure and embedded systems OEMs to create switching equipment that is at the core of InfiniBand fabrics. To deploy an InfiniBand fabric, any number of server or storage systems that contain an HCA can be connected to an InfiniBand-based communications infrastructure system, such as an InfiniBand switch. The Comapny has introduced its switch IC (InfiniScale IV).

The Company also offers custom products that incorporate its ICs to select server and storage OEMs that meet their special system requirements. Through these custom product engagements the Company gains insight into the OEMs’ technologies and product strategies. The Company also provides its OEM customers software and tools that facilitate the use and management of its products. Developed in conjunction with the OFA, its Linux- and Windows-based software enables applications to utilize the features of the interconnect. The Company has expertise in optimizing the performance of software that spans the range of upper layer protocols down through the lower level drivers that interface to its products. The Company also provides basic software tools for managing, testing and verifying the operation of InfiniBand fabrics.

The Company competes with QLogic Corporation, Marvell Technology Group, Broadcom Corporation, Intel, Emulex Corporation and Myricom.