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Aquantia Corporation
Company typePublic
NYSE: AQ
Russell 2000 Component
IndustryHigh-speed transceivers
Founded2004; 20 years ago (2004)
FoundersRamin Farjadrad, Ramin Shirani, Phil Delansay, Bill Woodruff
DefunctSeptember 19, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-09-19)
FateAcquired by Marvell Technology Group, brand was phased out
HeadquartersSan Jose, California
OwnerMarvell Technology, Inc.
Websiteweb.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.[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 Gb of data per second and Cat6 cables to carry 5 Gbps.[4] In 2016, Aquantia announced a technology, that made it possible to achieve up to 100Gbps over a copper cable.[5]

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

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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

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  1. ^ "Aquantia Solidifies Market Leadership With World's First 28nm 10GBASE-T PHY". design-reuse.com. 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Aquantia Unveils Game-Changing Enterprise Technology to Break Mobile Infrastructure Bottleneck". design-reuse.com. 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  4. ^ "NBASE-T Alliance Receives Boost with IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet". anandtech.com. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  5. ^ "100G technology could revolutionise data centres". electronicspecifier.com. 2016-10-25. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  6. ^ "Aquantia wins Company of the Year EETimes and EDN 2014 ACE award". 2014-04-02.
  7. ^ "Aquantia Ranks as Fastest Growing Semiconductor Company in North America on Deloitte's 2014 Technology Fast 500" (Press release). 13 November 2014.
  8. ^ "2016 ACE Awards Finalists Announced". EE Times. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  9. ^ "Marvell Completes Acquisition of Aquantia". Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  10. ^ "Aquantia acquires 10GBASE-T assets from PLX Technology". Retrieved 2015-05-28.
  11. ^ Rick Merrit (2010-09-24). "PLX acquires Teranetics in $36M deal".
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