Luxtera
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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. 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.
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. 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.
History
The company was founded in 20011 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. In 2006, the company received a $5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In August 2007, the company introduced Blazar, a 40GB optical active cable for interconnect within high performance computer clusters using single-mode optical fiber. In 2010, Luxtera was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's 50 Most Innovative Companies. In February 2019, Cisco Systems acquired the company.
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