Company:Luxtera
| File:Luxtera logo | |
| Type | Subsidiary of Cisco Systems |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Axel Scherer Michael Hochberg Tom Baehr-Jones Eli Yablonovitch |
| Headquarters | Carlsbad, California |
| Products | Blazar |
| Parent | Cisco Systems |
| Website | www |
Luxtera Inc., a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, is a semiconductor company that uses silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-optical systems in a production silicon CMOS process.[1]
The company uses fabless manufacturing; it uses semiconductor fabrication plants of Freescale Semiconductor.
The company received $130 million in funding and was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2019 for $660 million.[2]
History
The company was founded in 2001 by a group of professors and students at California Institute of Technology including Axel Scherer, Michael Hochberg, Tom Baehr-Jones, Eli Yablonovitch, Alex Dickinson and Lawrence C Gunn.[3]
In 2006, the company received a $5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.[4]
In August 2007, the company introduced Blazar, a 40GB optical active cable for interconnect within high performance computer clusters using single-mode optical fiber.[5]
In 2010, Luxtera was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's 50 Most Innovative Companies.[6]
In February 2019, Cisco Systems acquired the company.[7]
Products
Luxtera sold embedded optical transceiver that were aimed at use in data centers, within telecom networks or companies, with the last transceiver using the QSFP 100G PSM4 specification.[8][9] The company's cables used silicon photonics technology to send photonic data from their cables directly to semiconductors without first converting the data into electrical signals.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cooney, Michael (December 18, 2018). "Cisco bets $660M on silicon-photonics firm Luxtera". International Data Group. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3328785/cisco-bets-660m-on-silicon-photonics-firm-luxtera.html.
- ↑ Miller, Ron (December 18, 2018). "cisco-to-acquire-silicon-photonics-chip-maker-luxtera-for-660-million". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/18/cisco-to-acquire-silicon-photonics-chip-maker-luxtera-for-660-million/.
- ↑ Bigelow, Bruce V. (March 1, 2012). "With $21.7M in New Funding, Luxtera Signs Deal to Make Optical Chip". Xconomy. https://xconomy.com/san-diego/2012/03/01/with-21-7m-in-new-funding-luxtera-signs-deal-to-make-optical-chip/.
- ↑ "Darpa renews Luxtera's transceiver contract". EE Times. November 8, 2006. https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1164273.
- ↑ Scouras, Ismini (November 12, 2007). "Active cables extend reach 3X". EE Times. https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1271578.
- ↑ "MIT's Technology Review Unveils 2010 TR50 List of the World's Most Innovative Companies" (Press release). Business Wire. February 23, 2010.
- ↑ "Cisco Completes Acquisition of Luxtera" (Press release). Cisco Systems. February 7, 2019.
- ↑ "Luxtera ships 2x100-Gbps PSM4 silicon photonics embedded optical transceiver". lightwaveonline.com. 2017-03-23. https://www.lightwaveonline.com/optical-tech/transmission/article/16673302/luxtera-ships-2x100-gbps-psm4-silicon-photonics-embedded-optical-transceiver.
- ↑ "100G-PSM4 Product Family". luxtera.com. http://www.luxtera.com/100g-qsfp28-modules/.
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