TacticScaleWhat Silicon Laboratories Does & How It Makes Money (SLAB)
Updated October 2026 · reflects Silicon Laboratories's latest reported financials
Fabless chipmaker of wireless chips for connected Internet of Things devices. It sells mixed-signal and wireless microcontroller chips to electronics makers through its direct sales force, independent sales representatives and distributors.
How Silicon Laboratories makes money
It sells mixed-signal and wireless microcontroller chips to electronics makers through its direct sales force, independent sales representatives and distributors. Because it is fabless, it outsources chip manufacturing.
What Silicon Laboratories does
Silicon Laboratories (Silicon Labs) is a fabless semiconductor company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 1996. It designs mixed-signal, analog-intensive chips and wireless microcontrollers that connect devices across the Internet of Things, and sells in the United States, China, Taiwan and other markets. Its chips go into industrial IoT uses such as factory automation, smart metering, street lighting, renewable energy and EV charging equipment. They are also used in commercial IoT products like building automation, access control, electronic shelf labels and power tools. In smart homes, they power cameras, locks, lighting, thermostats and security panels, and in connected health they are used for diabetes management, fitness tracking and patient monitoring. The company sells directly and through sales representatives and distributors.
Products & services
- Wireless microcontrollers (wireless SoCs)
- Mixed-signal analog-intensive chips
- Chips for smart home devices
- Chips for connected health devices
- Chips for industrial and commercial IoT
What is Silicon Laboratories worth?
On an owner-earnings DCF, Silicon Laboratories's most-likely value is about $102 versus a recent price near $222 (54% above fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$34) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Fairly priced — no edge.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.
Price sits in the normal range — fair value isn't actionable here; it earns its keep only when price drops below the no-growth floor, or runs to roughly double the optimistic case.
Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →
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