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Metalink Ltd.

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Metalink Ltd.
Company typePublic
IndustryTelecommunication
WLAN
Semiconductors
Founded1992; 32 years ago (1992)
FounderTzvika Shukhman
Headquarters Yakum, Israel
Key people
Tzvika Shukhman (CEO)
ProductsWLAN IEEE 802.11n chipsets, DSL chipsets
Number of employees
160 (2007)

Metalink Ltd. was an Israeli-based hi-tech company specializing in silicon solutions for wireless and wireline broadband communications. Metalink offered integrated circuits and board level solutions targeting residential gateways, access points, routers, PC cards, set-top boxes (STB), digital media adapters (DMA) and wireless HDTVs. The products complied with IEEE 802.11n standard defining WLAN using Multiple-input multiple-output communications (MIMO). Other product lines included SDSL and VDSL products for triple-play services.

The company was headquartered in Yakum, Israel, with design centers in the US, Ukraine, and Taiwan.