Luxtera
{{Infobox company
| name = Luxtera Inc.
| logo = Luxtera logo
| type = Subsidiary of Cisco Systems
| founded = {{start date and age|2001}}
| founder = Axel Scherer
Michael Hochberg
Tom Baehr-Jones
Eli Yablonovitch
| location = Carlsbad, California
| industry = Semiconductors
| products = Blazar
| parent = Cisco Systems
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.luxtera.com/}}
}}
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.{{cite news | url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/3328785/cisco-bets-660m-on-silicon-photonics-firm-luxtera.html | title=Cisco bets $660M on silicon-photonics firm Luxtera | first=Michael | last=Cooney | work=International Data Group | date=December 18, 2018}}
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.{{cite news | url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/18/cisco-to-acquire-silicon-photonics-chip-maker-luxtera-for-660-million/ | title=cisco-to-acquire-silicon-photonics-chip-maker-luxtera-for-660-million | first=Ron | last=Miller | work=TechCrunch | date=December 18, 2018}}
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.{{cite news | url=https://xconomy.com/san-diego/2012/03/01/with-21-7m-in-new-funding-luxtera-signs-deal-to-make-optical-chip/ | title=With $21.7M in New Funding, Luxtera Signs Deal to Make Optical Chip | first=Bruce V. | last=Bigelow | work=Xconomy | date=March 1, 2012}}
In 2006, the company received a $5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.{{cite news | url=https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1164273 | title=Darpa renews Luxtera's transceiver contract | work=EE Times | date=November 8, 2006}}
In August 2007, the company introduced Blazar, a 40GB optical active cable for interconnect within high performance computer clusters using single-mode optical fiber.{{cite news | url=https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1271578 | title=Active cables extend reach 3X | first=Ismini | last=Scouras | work=EE Times | date=November 12, 2007}}
In 2010, Luxtera was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's 50 Most Innovative Companies.{{cite press release | url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100223006649/en/MITs-Technology-Review-Unveils-2010-TR50-List | title=MIT's Technology Review Unveils 2010 TR50 List of the World's Most Innovative Companies | publisher=Business Wire | date=February 23, 2010}}
In February 2019, Cisco Systems acquired the company.{{cite press release | url=https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1965550 | title=Cisco Completes Acquisition of Luxtera | publisher=Cisco Systems | date=February 7, 2019}}
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.{{cite web|access-date=2024-06-12 |date=2017-03-23 |title=Luxtera ships 2x100-Gbps PSM4 silicon photonics embedded optical transceiver |publisher=lightwaveonline.com |url=https://www.lightwaveonline.com/optical-tech/transmission/article/16673302/luxtera-ships-2x100-gbps-psm4-silicon-photonics-embedded-optical-transceiver}}{{cite web|access-date=2024-06-12 |date= |title=100G-PSM4 Product Family |publisher=luxtera.com |url=http://www.luxtera.com/100g-qsfp28-modules/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905222028/http://www.luxtera.com/100g-qsfp28-modules/ |archive-date=2019-09-05 |url-status=dead}} 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.
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.luxtera.com/}}
Category:2001 establishments in California
Category:2019 mergers and acquisitions
Category:Companies based in Carlsbad, California
Category:Fabless semiconductor companies
Category:Semiconductor companies of the United States
Category:Technology companies established in 2001