Lesson plan
Luxtera
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.
Article summary
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.
Key claims
- date of foundation: 2001 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the date of foundation is "2001". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
Bibliography
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359721545
Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.