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.
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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
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