Lara Networks

aid: lara-networks
name: Lara Networks
description: 'Lara Networks, Inc. (founded as Lara Technology) was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered at 110 Nortech
  Parkway, San Jose, California, that architected, designed, and marketed silicon-based packet-processing solutions for high-speed
  Internet and networking infrastructure. Its products were built on a patent-pending Associative Processing Technology (APT)
  and manufactured on 0.18-micron process technology: Network Database Search Engine (NDSE) devices, network coprocessors,
  and NDSE subsystems, with Content-Aware Switching (CAS) solutions in development. The devices were content-addressable memory
  search engines that offloaded ultra-large table lookups from network processors — holding tables of more than three million
  addresses and sustaining over 100 million lookups per second so switches and routers could process packets from Layer 2
  to Layer 7 at full line rate at OC-48 (2.5Gbps) and above. The company raised a $40 million second round in October 2000
  led by Raza Ventures with Battery Ventures, InveStar Capital, and TeleSoft Venture Partners, alongside a long-term co-development
  agreement and minority equity investment from STMicroelectronics. Lara Networks no longer operates independently: by January
  2003 its laranetworks.com domain served Cypress Semiconductor Corporation content, and today every path on the domain 301-redirects
  to Infineon Technologies, which acquired Cypress in April 2020. As a fabless chip company selling silicon to network equipment
  manufacturers, Lara Networks never operated a web or developer API program, and no public API surface exists to enrich.
  This profile is retained as an acquired-company lead.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lara-networks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - url: https://www.laranetworks.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://www.infineon.com/about/company?site=www.laranetworks.com — a different registrable
      domain (laranetworks.com -> infineon.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lara-networks.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-investors:
- Raza Ventures
- Battery Ventures
- InveStar Capital
- TeleSoft Venture Partners
- STMicroelectronics
x-former-name: Lara Technology, Incorporated
x-headquarters: San Jose, California, United States
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-status-detail: Acquired into Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; the laranetworks.com domain served Cypress content by January
  2003 and now redirects to Infineon Technologies, which acquired Cypress in April 2020.
x-acquired-by: cypress-semiconductor
x-successor: Infineon Technologies
x-no-api-surface: true
x-evidence:
- probe: https://www.laranetworks.com/
  result: 301 -> https://www.infineon.com/about/company?site=www.laranetworks.com
  note: every path, including /.well-known/security.txt, /.well-known/api-catalog and /llms.txt, 301-redirects to the same
    Infineon corporate page; the site= query parameter echoes the requested laranetworks.com hostname, Infineon's standard
    handling for domains it holds from acquired entities
- probe: whois laranetworks.com
  result: created 2000-01-22, registrar CSC Corporate Domains, name servers pdns1/pdns2.cscdns.net — an enterprise corporate
    registrar, not an expired or parked domain
- probe: apex laranetworks.com over HTTPS
  result: no response (connection failure); only the www host answers, and only to redirect
- probe: web.archive.org snapshot 2001-05-15 of www.laranetworks.com
  result: live Lara Networks site describing APT, NDSE devices, network coprocessors and the LNI7000 family; the investors
    page lists Battery Ventures, InveStar Capital, Raza Ventures, TeleSoft Venture Partners and STMicroelectronics
- probe: web.archive.org snapshot 2002 of www.laranetworks.com/aboutus/profile.cfm
  result: serves "Cypress - About Us" dated Jan. 16, 2003, copyright Cypress Semiconductor Corporation — the domain had been
    folded into Cypress's site by then
- probe: developer/API surface search across the live domain and the archived site
  result: none — no developer portal, documentation, API reference, SDKs, or machine-readable specification has ever existed
    for this company
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- Networking
- Packet Processing
- Content Addressable Memory
- Network Search Engine
- Internet Infrastructure
- Fabless
- Hardtech
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Semiconductor
- Networking
- Packet Processing
- Content Addressable Memory
- Network Search Engine
- Internet Infrastructure
- Fabless
- Hardtech
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lara-networks-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.laranetworks.com
- type: Successor
  name: Infineon Technologies
  url: https://www.infineon.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence