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MOSAID: Trade, Technology, Companies & Products
MOSAID is a semiconductor technology company incorporated in Ottawa, Canada. It was founded in 1975 as a DRAM design company, and later branched out into other areas including EDA software, semiconductor reverse engineering, test equipment manufacturing and intellectual property licensing. MOSAID went public in 1994 with a listing on the Toronto Stock…
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MOSAID topic overview
The analysis highlights Trade, Technology, Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around MOSAID.
Related topics
43
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
47
Extracted relationships
82
Concept neighborhoods
11
Bridge connections
47
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Years as a Publicly Traded Company (1994-2011) · 22 topics
Early Years before IPO (1975-1994) · 12 topics
Overview · 6 topics
A Privately Held Company Once Again (2011-present) · 3 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Founded
1975
Industry
Semiconductor
Headquarters
Ottawa, Canada
Fate
Taken private by Sterling Partners in 2011, renamed Conversant Intellectual Property Management in 2013, changed its name back to MOSAID in 2021
Founder
Dick Foss, Bob Harland
Key people
Boris Teksler, President & CEO Jamie McDole, General Counsel Pam Yeh, Chief Financial Officer
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How MOSAID connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around MOSAID shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, MOSAID → Accelerix, Although SLDRAM, As, ASIC, ATM, CAM, Chrysalis-ITS, Consortium, DDR, Direct RAMBUS DRAM, Double Date Rate, DRAM, DRAM-based, DRAM-logic, DRDRAM, Following, Gbit Ethernet, HDRAM, IPO, JEDEC Another extracted example is MOSAID → Conversant Intellectual Property Management, Core Wireless, Dublin, Elpida, HLNAND, In, IPValue, Ireland, Japanese DRAM, Korean SSD, Longitude Licensing, Novachips, One, RPX, Sterling Partners, The, Vector Capital. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
MOSAID
Top relations
related to Years as a Publicly Traded Company (1994-2011)· 34
MOSAID → Accelerix, Although SLDRAM, As, ASIC, ATM, CAM, Chrysalis-ITS, Consortium, DDR, Direct RAMBUS DRAM, Double Date Rate, DRAM, DRAM-based, DRAM-logic, DRDRAM, Following, Gbit Ethernet, HDRAM, IPO, JEDEC
related to A Privately Held Company Once Again (2011-present)· 17
MOSAID → Conversant Intellectual Property Management, Core Wireless, Dublin, Elpida, HLNAND, In, IPValue, Ireland, Japanese DRAM, Korean SSD, Longitude Licensing, Novachips, One, RPX, Sterling Partners, The, Vector Capital
related to Early Years before IPO (1975-1994)· 14
MOSAID → DRAM, ISSCC, Microsystems International, MIL's, MOSAID's, On, Paul Richman, RCA, Richard Foss, Robert Harland, Soon, Standard Microsystems, The, Their
Fate· 1
MOSAID → Taken private by Sterling Partners in 2011, renamed Conversant Intellectual Property Management in 2013, changed its name back to MOSAID in 2021
Founded· 1
MOSAID → 1975
Founder· 1
MOSAID → Dick Foss, Bob Harland
Headquarters· 1
MOSAID → Ottawa, Canada
Industry· 1
MOSAID → Semiconductor
Key people· 1
MOSAID → Boris Teksler, President & CEO Jamie McDole, General Counsel Pam Yeh, Chief Financial Officer
Net income· 1
MOSAID → CA$7,002,000 (2001)
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 82 structured relationships around MOSAID. Examples in this analysis include MOSAID → Fate → Taken private by Sterling Partners in 2011, renamed Conversant Intellectual Property Management in 2013, changed its name back to MOSAID in 2021 and MOSAID → Founded → 1975. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
MOSAID
Fate
Taken private by Sterling Partners in 2011, renamed Conversant Intellectual Property Management in 2013, changed its name back to MOSAID in 2021
1.00
infobox
MOSAID
Founded
1975
1.00
infobox
MOSAID
Founder
Dick Foss, Bob Harland
1.00
infobox
MOSAID
Headquarters
Ottawa, Canada
1.00
infobox
MOSAID
Industry
Semiconductor
1.00
infobox
MOSAID
Key people
Boris Teksler, President & CEO Jamie McDole, General Counsel Pam Yeh, Chief Financial Officer
semiconductor technology company incorporated in Ottawa
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text
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around MOSAID bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Dram, Semiconductor and Management. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
MOSAID
Dram
Semiconductor
Management
Intellectual
Property
Company
Back
Conversant
Name
Renamed
Years
Industry
mosaid
Dram
Semiconductor
Management
Intellectual
Property
Company
Back
Conversant
Name
Renamed
Years
Industry
patent licensing
Patent
Mosaid's
Partners
Sterling
Acquired
Private
Industry
Property
Reverse
Test
Business
Semiconductor
early years before ipo (1975-1994)
Engineering
Reverse
Semiconductor
Back
Conversant
Incorporated
Name
Private
Renamed
Design
Launched
Management
years as a publicly traded company (1994-2011)
Engineering
Reverse
Back
Name
Intellectual
Property
Test
Licensing
Semiconductor
Mosaid
Conversant
Incorporated
a privately held company once again (2011-present)
Back
Name
Intellectual
Property
Test
Licensing
Mosaid
Semiconductor
Incorporated
Private
Technology
Design
intellectual property
Property
Management
Conversant
Renamed
Back
Name
Reverse
Test
Mosaid
Semiconductor
Private
Licensing
dram
Mosaid
Industry
Years
Developed
Portfolio
Memory
Semiconductor
Technology
Launched
Sdram
Employed
Engineering
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For MOSAID, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects MOSAID with Years as a Publicly Traded Company (1994-2011). Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Min side: 3
MOSAID — Years as a Publicly Traded Company (1994-2011)· splits 25 ⟂ 23MOSAID — Early Years before IPO (1975-1994)· splits 35 ⟂ 13MOSAID — Overview· splits 41 ⟂ 7MOSAID — A Privately Held Company Once Again (2011-present)· splits 44 ⟂ 4
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
MOSAID
Nodes48
Edges47
Triples82
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.041667
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around MOSAID to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Trade, Technology, Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
