Aquantia Corporation
Aquantia Corporation is a manufacturer of high-speed transceivers; in mid-2014 it held 70% of the market for transceivers for 10-gigabit ethernet over copper wire.[1] It is also involved in the NBASE-T effort to produce intermediate-speed (2.5Gbit/s and 5Gbit/s) ethernet-over-Cat5e solutions, targeting the remote radio head [2] and wifi [3] markets.
Initially their speciality was in using an elaborate analogue front-end to allow the digitisation stage to be done with a lower specification ADC,[4] allowing lower power consumption in a given process - their 90 nm ICs were competitive with 65 nm chips from other manufacturers.
It is a privately held company which had raised $178.9 million over eight rounds of funding as of mid-2015;[5] it won Company of the Year at the 2014 Annual Creativity in Electronics awards,[6] and was ranked by Deloitte Technology as the fastest-growing semiconductor company in North America in 2014 [7]
Acquisitions
Aquantia acquired the 10GBASE-T assets of PLX Technology in September 2012;[8] PLX had picked them up in September 2010 from Teranetics.[9]
References
- ↑ "Semiconductor company Aquantia raises $16 million, says it's preparing for IPO". Retrieved 2015-05-28.
- ↑ "Aquantia unveils AQcell technology, boosts small cell infrastructure with multi-Gigabit rates over copper cabling". Retrieved 2015-05-28.
- ↑ "Xilinx and Aquantia Extend Capabilities of Existing Copper Cabling Infrastructure for Data Center Mobile Enterprise and Video Applications". Retrieved 2015-05-28.
- ↑ "Aquantia - aiming to lead the market in 10GBASE-T silicon". 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
- ↑ "Aquantia". Retrieved 2015-05-28.
- ↑ "Aquantia wins Company of the Year EETimes and EDN 2014 ACE award". 2014-04-02.
- ↑ "Aquantia Ranks as Fastest Growing Semiconductor Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500".
- ↑ "Aquantia acquires 10GBASE-T assets from PLX Technology". Retrieved 2015-05-28.
- ↑ Rick Merrit (2010-09-24). "PLX acquires Teranetics in $36M deal".