Aquantia Corporation

{{Advert|date=April 2019}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Aquantia Corporation

| logo = Aquantia Corporation.jpg

| type = Public

| fate = Acquired by Marvell Technology Group, brand was phased out

| traded_as = {{NYSE was|AQ}}
Russell 2000 Component

| industry = High-speed transceivers

| founded = {{Start date and age|2004}}

| founders = Ramin Farjadrad, Ramin Shirani, Phil Delansay, Bill Woodruff

| defunct = {{End date and age|2019|09|19}}

| owner = Marvell Technology, Inc.

| location = San Jose, California

| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20190901124939/https://www.aquantia.com/}}

}}

Aquantia Corporation was a manufacturer of high-speed transceivers. In 2004, Aquantia Corporation was founded and first made products for Data Center connectivity, and in 2013 announced the world's first integrated 10GBASE-T MAC/PHY for servers.{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2013-11-05 |title=Aquantia Solidifies Market Leadership With World's First 28nm 10GBASE-T PHY |publisher=design-reuse.com |url=https://www.design-reuse.com/news/33235/28nm-10gbase-t-phy.html}} 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.{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2014-10-28 |title=Industry Leaders Form NBASE-T Alliance to Promote Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Technology for Enterprise Wired and Wireless Access Networks |publisher=businesswire.com |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141028005281/en/Industry-Leaders-Form-NBASE-T-Alliance-to-Promote-Multi-Gigabit-Ethernet-Technology-for-Enterprise-Wired-and-Wireless-Access-Networks}}{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2014-10-06 |title=Aquantia Unveils Game-Changing Enterprise Technology to Break Mobile Infrastructure Bottleneck |publisher=design-reuse.com |url=https://www.design-reuse.com/news/35610/aquantia-aqrate-phy-28nm.html}} 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 Gb of data per second and Cat6 cables to carry 5 Gbps.{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2016-10-03 |title=NBASE-T Alliance Receives Boost with IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet |publisher=anandtech.com |url=https://www.anandtech.com/show/10720/nbaset-receives-boost-with-ieee-p8023bz-approval}} In 2016, Aquantia announced a technology, that made it possible to achieve up to 100Gbps over a copper cable.{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2016-10-25 |title=100G technology could revolutionise data centres |publisher=electronicspecifier.com |url=https://www.electronicspecifier.com/products/5g/100g-technology-could-revolutionise-data-centres}}

It won Company of the Year at the 2014 annual Creativity in Electronics awards,{{cite web | url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/aquantia-wins-company-of-the-year-ee-times-and-edn-2014-ace-award-2014-04-02 |title=Aquantia wins Company of the Year EETimes and EDN 2014 ACE award |date=2014-04-02}} and was ranked by Deloitte Fast 500 as the fastest-growing semiconductor company in North America in 2014,{{cite press release |url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141113006234/en/Aquantia-Ranks-Fastest-Growing-Semiconductor-Company-North |title=Aquantia Ranks as Fastest Growing Semiconductor Company in North America on Deloitte's 2014 Technology Fast 500|date=13 November 2014 }} 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".{{Cite web|url=http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1330812|title=2016 ACE Awards Finalists Announced |publisher= EE Times|access-date=2017-08-25}}

The company was acquired by Marvell Technology Group on September 19, 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.marvell.com/company/news/pressDetail.do?releaseID=11257|title=Marvell Completes Acquisition of Aquantia|access-date=2019-09-27}} 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

Aquantia acquired the 10GBASE-T assets of PLX Technology in September 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.aquantia.com/news-and-media/press-releases/detail/3556/aquantia-acquires-10gbase-t-assets-from-plx-technology |title=Aquantia acquires 10GBASE-T assets from PLX Technology |access-date=2015-05-28}} PLX had picked them up in September 2010 from Teranetics.{{cite web |url=http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1257444 |title=PLX acquires Teranetics in $36M deal |author=Rick Merrit |date=2010-09-24}}

References

{{Reflist}}