[2] Headquartered in the Silicon Forest area of Hillsboro, Oregon,[3] the company also has operations in San Jose, Calif.,[4] Shanghai,[5] Manila,[6] Penang,[4] and Singapore.

[9] The company emerged from bankruptcy after 62 days and moved from its headquarters in an unincorporated area near Beaverton to a smaller building in Hillsboro, Oregon.

[18] In 2004, the company settled charges with the United States government that it had illegally exported certain technologies to China, paying a fine of $560,000.

[20] In June 2008, Bruno Guilmart was named as chief executive officer of the company, replacing Steve Skaggs.

[28] In 2011, the company was ranked third among the world's makers of field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices[29] and second for CPLDs & SPLDs.

[37] In April 2016, Tsinghua Holdings said in a U.S. filing that it accumulated a roughly 6 percent stake in Lattice Semiconductor through share purchased on the open market.

[38] In November, 2016, Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, a private equity firm backed by China Reform Holdings Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire all of Lattice's shares.

[39] The purchase of Lattice by Canyon Bridge was in September 2017 blocked by US President Donald Trump based on the recommendation of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States on national security grounds under the Exon–Florio Amendment.

[44] Activist investor Lion Point Capital purchased a six percent stake in Lattice in February 2018.

[46] That same year, Lattice replaced several members of its leadership team, including bringing in a new president and CEO, Jim Anderson, who previously worked at Advanced Micro Devices.

[56] Lattice products are used in a variety of end uses across the communication, computing (client and datacenter), industrial, automotive, and consumer electronics markets.

[65] After AMD completed the acquisition of Xilinx in February 2022, Lattice Semiconductor became the last fully independent major manufacturer of FPGAs.