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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| NYSE: AQ Russell 2000 Component | |
| Industry | High-speed transceivers |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founders | Ramin Farjadrad, Ramin Shirani, Phil Delansay, Bill Woodruff |
| Defunct | September 19, 2019 |
| Fate | Acquired by Marvell Technology Group, brand was phased out |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California |
| Owner | Marvell Technology, Inc. |
| Website | web |
Aquantia Corporation was a manufacturer of high-speed transceivers. In 2004, Aquantia Corporation was founded and first made products for Data Center connectivity. In 2008, it shipped the first monolithic 10GBASE-T PHY silicon at 5W — under half the power of incumbent solutions — winning the socket in Cisco's first 10GBASE-T product. In 2013 announced the world's first integrated 10GBASE-T MAC/PHY for servers.[1] In 2014, Aquantia founded the NBASE-T Alliance together with Cisco, Xilinx and Freescale. In the same year they introduced a technology that delivered a boost to Ethernet throughput and was aimed to help with an expected increase in mobile broadband traffic.[2][3] The NBASE-T Alliance promoted the 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T standard, which was ratified as the 802.3bz standard by the IEEE in 2016. The standard enabled Cat5e cables to carry 2.5 and 5 Gb of data per second and Cat6 cables to carry 5 Gbps.[4] In 2016, Aquantia announced a Simultaneous Bi-Directional (SBD) PAM4 transceiver technology that made it possible to achieve up to 100Gbps over a copper cable[5]. In 2018, Aquantia brought its SBD PAM4 technology to the IEEE standards body as a way to deliver multi-Gig Ethernet for self-driving vehicle networks while halving the number of cables required in the car. In 2020, the IEEE ratified the 802.3ch standard — defining 2.5GBASE-T1, 5GBASE-T1, and 10GBASE-T1 — based on the SBD PAM4 technology. That same year, the IEEE began extending the same technology to data rates of 25–100 Gbps as 25GBASE-T1 and 100GBASE-T1.
It won Company of the Year at the 2014 annual Creativity in Electronics awards,[6] and was ranked by Deloitte Fast 500 as the fastest-growing semiconductor company in North America in 2014,[7] 2015 and 2016. In 2016, Aquantia was named a finalist in UBM Tech’s EE Times and EDN Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards for “Company of the Year".[8]
The company was acquired by Marvell Technology Group on September 19, 2019.[9] The Aquantia brand was since phased out and replaced with Marvell brand. Aquantia's website was, for short time, redirecting to Marvell's website, but then it was shut down completely.
Acquisitions
[edit]Aquantia acquired the 10GBASE-T assets of PLX Technology in September 2012.[10] PLX had picked them up in September 2010 from Teranetics.[11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Aquantia Solidifies Market Leadership With World's First 28nm 10GBASE-T PHY". design-reuse.com. 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
- ↑ "Industry Leaders Form NBASE-T Alliance to Promote Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Technology for Enterprise Wired and Wireless Access Networks". businesswire.com. 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
- ↑ "Aquantia Unveils Game-Changing Enterprise Technology to Break Mobile Infrastructure Bottleneck". design-reuse.com. 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
- ↑ "NBASE-T Alliance Receives Boost with IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet". anandtech.com. 2016-10-03. Archived from the original on October 4, 2016. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
- ↑ "100G technology could revolutionise data centres". electronicspecifier.com. 2016-10-25. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
- ↑ "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" (Press release). 13 November 2014.
- ↑ "2016 ACE Awards Finalists Announced". EE Times. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
- ↑ "Marvell Completes Acquisition of Aquantia". Retrieved 2019-09-27.
- ↑ "Aquantia acquires 10GBASE-T assets from PLX Technology". Retrieved 2015-05-28.
- ↑ Rick Merrit (2010-09-24). "PLX acquires Teranetics in $36M deal".
External links
[edit]- Official website (archived)
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