Rochester Electronics, LLC — commonly "Rochester Electronics" or "Rochester" — is a privately held American semiconductor company headquartered at 16 Malcolm Hoyt Drive, Newburyport, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1981 by Curt Gerrish (originally in Rochester, New Hampshire) and remains family-led, with sons Chris and Paul Gerrish as co-presidents. It is not publicly traded. Wikipedia and company materials cite 700+ employees; specific revenue figures are not publicly verified (a Dun & Bradstreet listing shows a much smaller figure that conflicts with other sources and should not be relied on).
Operations. Rochester is not a conventional chipmaker. It describes itself as the "Semiconductor Lifecycle Solution®," combining (1) authorized stocking distribution of end-of-life, obsolete, and active semiconductors — over 15 billion devices across 200,000+ part numbers — and (2) licensed semiconductor manufacturing under agreements with more than 70 original component manufacturers. It holds over 12 billion die in its die bank and offers design, wafer processing, assembly, test, reliability, and IP archiving services, plus "aftermarket" reproduction of discontinued parts and a newer program, Through Life Support 360™ (TLS360), covering legacy families from TI, Analog Devices, NXP, and Infineon. Its core customers are long-lifecycle markets: aerospace and defense, industrial, medical, automotive, and avionics.
Litigation posture. Rochester is an operating company defending, not asserting. Across the tracked data it appears as defendant once and as plaintiff zero times. It is named alongside distributors (Arrow, Avnet, Digi-Key, Mouser, Future, Newark), a chip supplier (NXP), automakers (Mazda, Mercedes-Benz), and Visteon — a typical NPE supplier-and-customer dragnet rather than a competitor dispute.
Notable case. The single tracked matter is Daedalus Prime LLC v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. et al., No. 1:22-cv-01107-RGA (D. Del., filed Aug. 23, 2022, Judge Richard G. Andrews). Daedalus Prime — classified by Unified Patents as an NPE/PAE and reportedly tied to monetization veteran Ed Gomez — asserted former Intel patents (U.S. 8,775,833; 8,898,494; 9,575,895; 10,049,080; 10,394,300; 10,705,588) relating to processor power management and cache/core architecture. Parallel Daedalus actions and an ITC complaint targeted MediaTek, Qualcomm, NXP, and automakers; the Delaware case has since been closed. Rochester's inclusion reflects its role as a component supplier to the accused supply chain.