8x8

The company was founded in 1987 by Chi-Shin Wang and Y. W. Sing formerly of Weitek as Integrated Information Technology, Inc., or IIT. The name was changed in the mid-1990s. According to the company, IIT began as an integrated circuit designer. The company produced math coprocessors for x86 microprocessors, as well as Graphics accelerator cards for the personal computer market during the late 1980s. The company later changed its name to 8x8, and began producing products for the videoconferencing market.8x8 went public on the NASDAQ market in 1997. The company moved their trading to NYSE in 2017, under the ticker symbol EGHT. In 1999, 8x8 acquired two companies, Odisei and U|Force, to acquire network and server VoIP technologies.In March 2000, 8x8 relaunched itself as a VoIP service provider under the name Netergy Networks. The company changed its name back to 8x8 in July 2001. 8x8 began trading on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market on 26 July 2002. The company's stock was listed on the New York Stock Exchange for a time before switching back to Nasdaq in November 2022.In 2003, the company launched a videophone service. In July 2007, after startup SunRocket was liquidated, 8x8 entered an agreement to accept 200,000 of its customers.Gartner has listed 8x8 several times as a Leader for UCaaS within its Gartner Magic Quadrant, a series of technology market reports. 8x8 has been awarded 128 patents related to semiconductors, computer architecture, video processing algorithms, videophones and communications technologies and security.In 2018, the company acquired Jitsi and Jitsi Meet.