PRESS RELEASE
Inphi
Corporation Demonstrates First-Ever Commercial 50G Product
Capabilities for Optical Communications
New
optical components company to develop and sell high-speed indium
phosphide chipsets at 40 Gbps, 50 Gbps and beyond
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., October 8, 2001 -
Inphi Corporation, an emerging optical components company, today
announced it has successfully developed and tested the world’s
first commercial indium phosphide (InP) integrated circuits capable
of network performance levels higher than 50 Gbps.
This product will position Inphi to deliver the industry’s
highest bandwidth, lowest power OC-768 solutions and ultimately
enable network service providers to offer customers the fastest
fiber optic network transmission speeds available to date.
These high-speed integrated circuits based on InP demonstrate
significantly superior performance at OC-768 levels and reinforce
the value of InP as the leading technology for use in high-speed
applications. Unlike more traditional materials such as silicon
germanium (SiGe) and gallium arsenide (GaAs), which are used in many
10 Gbps designs, InP today is able to meet higher throughput demands
of 40, 43, and 50 Gbps.
"In a very short period since the availability of our GCS
InP HBT technology, Inphi has been able to achieve first pass
success. Inphi’s modeling and design methodology yields circuits
that maximize the performance of the GCS carbon-doped indium
phosphide process technology," explained Chanh Nguyen, CTO of
Global Communication Semiconductors. "The Inphi circuits are
the most complex we have seen to date."
These circuits are Inphi’s first 4:1 multiplexer and 1:4
demultiplexer prototypes and operate at a data rate greater than 50
Gbps with a power consumption of less than 900
milliwatts. This breakthrough development will enable OC-768
chipsets to run at 40, 43, and 50 Gbps while operating at power
levels comparable to those of today’s OC-192 chipsets.
"With their revolutionary indium phosphide design
technology, Inphi is poised to lead the emerging OC-768 optical
communications component industry," stated Dado Banatao,
managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital and Chairman of the
Board at Inphi. "Inphi delivers the industry’s highest
bandwidth components for multiple market segments. Network service
providers have been clamoring for this level of performance for some
time, and now we can give it to them."
"The optical communications industry has long suffered from
a dearth of components from fiber to framers," said Allan
Armstrong, Director of Optical Transport Semiconductors at RHK.
"Inphi’s new indium phosphide circuits will pace the adoption
of 40 Gbps technology and represent a significant accomplishment in
indium phosphide."
About Inphi
Based in Westlake Village, California, Inphi Corporation was
formed in November 2000 and is an emerging, privately held,
venture-funded company in the optical communications industry. Inphi
delivers the highest bandwidth, lowest power indium phosphide
integrated circuits to optical communications suppliers who need
breakthrough solutions at 40G, 50G, and beyond. Additional
information about the company can be found at www.inphi-corp.com.
Global
Communication Semiconductors Inc., based in Torrance, California, an
ISO 9002 certified company, provides compound semiconductor foundry
services to the wireless telecommunication and high-speed networking
industries. GCS currently offers foundry service for both InGaP and
InP HBT processes and provides optoelectronic foundry services for
PIN diodes used in the fiber optic communication market.
For
more information on GCS contact:
Bill
Vitez
Director
of Marketing and Sales
Global
Communication Semiconductors, Inc.
23600
Telo Avenue, Suite 118
Torrance,
CA 90505
Tel:
310-530-7274 x 714
Fax:
310-517-8201
Email:
bvitez@gcsincorp.com
Web
site: http://www.gcsincorp.com
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