DSL chip news
Lantiq: Wireless HD TV WorksChristian Wolff promises "flawless and unobstructed HD-Video streaming over Wireless-LAN without making any compromise to Quality-of-Service," after taking over the Metalink 802.11n MIMO. Wireless HDTV has been promised so many times, by Metalink and many others, that no one believes it's finally working. Wolff is confident the new 65 nanometer Metalink chips will convince people. His investors are putting up $17M to buy key assets after Metalink itself ran out of funds. Metalink was a remarkable outfit whose VDSL chips were close in performance but half the price of the competing DMT designs that eventually won out. Send me some thoughts and company history for my next ... Wednesday, 6 January 2010 Read more |
Ikanos,Lantiq: Our chips are best Mike Gulett of Ikanos told me they make the best DSL chips when I visited. A few hours later, Imran Hajimusa of Lantiq (formerly part of Infineon) said something very similar. I'm sure I would have heard the same if I had stopped by Broadcom as well. Not being an engineer with a test lab, I'm not qualified to judge. Any chipmaker who's survived the tough DSL market obviously has an outstanding product as far as I'm concerned. Both had some impressive features to demonstrate. Ikanos showed me how their rate-adjustment on the fly minimizes the dropouts and retrains that are the bane of IPTV carriers. Tom, Gavin, and the rest did a remarkable job back around 1993 defining the DSL standards and it's amazing how little problem we have with interference. Back in 2000, some competent engineers believed DSL wo... Wednesday, 3 March 2010 Read more |
China Telecom: 802.11n for standard home gateways “11n is cheaper than 11g but can run three times as fast,” claims Bomin Wang, President of TrendChip, which has just launched an ADSL gateway design with 11n. "In a competitive market where the three-network convergence policy has been put in place, China's telecom operators are considering 11n as an essential specification in their new tenders to allow users to enjoy the convenience of high bandwidth and IPTV anywhere, anytime.” 11n chipmaker Quantenna has just received another $15M from Swisscom and VCs to develop their 4x4 MIMO chip. The prototypes are delivering 100 megabits over 100 feet in their testing, enough for wireless HD TV connections. Netgear has announced a product based on the chip. DSL folks know Quantenna's founder, Behrooz Rezvani, who previously was at Ikanos. The Lantiq-Metalink 11n chips have a nice demo of 4 HD signals ... Thursday, 11 March 2010 Read more |
TrendChip now dangerous enough to get sued Although TrendChip is near the top in volume of DSL chips shipped, until last week the attitude of the other three DSL chipmakers was “ignore them. They only are at the low end.” As Jonathan Schwartz just blogged “suing a competitor typically makes them more relevant, not less.” At Sun, Schwartz stared down both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they threatened patent suits. But Sun lost one to Kodak in a trial in Kodak's home town of Rochester. Lantiq apparently now considers TrendChip a threat, especially if Trendchip goes ahead with their merger with 802.11n chipmaker Ralink. Lantiq is asking a German court to stop Billion Electric from selling modems with TrendChip inside in Germany. I wouldn't want to be defending a Chinese company facing a German chipmaker in a German court. Lantiq while part of Infineon ... Thursday, 11 March 2010 Read more |
Chip capacity tight; No DSL shortages "Right now our capacity is all taken up, and we don't have enough," Jiang Shangzhou of SMIC tells Reuters. Ulrich Schumacher at Grace Semi has been operating at 100 percent capacity since September. Mark Lapedus in EE Times writes "Not long ago, chip makers could not buy an order amid the terrible downturn. Now, amid the upturn, there are widespread reports of component shortages in the supply chain." Memory chip prices are actually going up, with Samsung doing particularly well. My checks across the industry suggest things are not nearly that intense. Don't panic. Everyone has to carefully plan, but it's rare that an order that ordinarily would be filled in 30 days is delayed. Demand for DSL chips is good but not enough to seriously strain supply. Chip demand is ultimately driven ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010 Read more |
AVM Selects Ikanos Communications’ Processors for Next-Generation MultFrom Ikanos: Ikanos’ Processors Enable Advanced Wireless Telephony, File Sharing and Multi-Channel HD IPTV Services Throughout Europe FREMONT, Calif., March 1, 2010 — Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN), a leading provider of advanced broadband semiconductor and software products for the digital home, today announced that that AVM, Germany’s leading manufacturer of broadband network equipment, has selected Ikanos’ Fusiv® Vx180 communications processor for integration into its most advanced family of multimedia home gateways. The Ikanos-based FRITZ!Box family of home gateways will be deployed in Germany and throughout Europe in IP-enabled multi-service A/VDSL access networks, enabling advanced services such as digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT), dual-band concurrent 802.11n wireless LAN communications, network storage and multi-channel high-definition IPTV.Ikanos’ Fusiv Vx180 is a low-power, single-chip communications processor that incorporates a MIPS-based™ CPU core capable of 500 MHz processing speeds, digital signal processor (DSP)-based ... Tuesday, 6 April 2010 Read more |
Lantiq hires Michael Thompsonpr From Lantiq: Industry Veteran Michael Thompson Appointed as Lantiq Senior Vice President and Head of the Worldwide Sales Organization Munich/Neubiberg, Germany – March 11, 2010 – Lantiq, a leading company in next-generation access and home networking technologies, today announced that industry veteran Michael Thompson has joined the company as Senior Vice President and head of the worldwide sales organization at Lantiq. He brings more than 20 years of technical sales experience and is well versed in the international business ... Tuesday, 6 April 2010 Read more |
Lantiq sues Billion Electric for using Trendchip DSLLantiq Sues Network Equipment Manufacturer Billion Electric Trendchip IC in the company’s modem infringes upon Lantiq patentsNeubiberg/Munich, Germany, 08 March, 2010 – Lantiq Deutschland GmbH has filed suit in the German District Court of Düsseldorf against Billion Electric Co. Ltd., Taiwan, for patent infringement. Lantiq asserts that some of Billion’s ADSL2/ADSL2+ modem products infringe upon Lantiq’s intellectual property, where these products contain a communications semiconductor from Taiwanese chipset supplier Trendchip. Lantiq requests that Billion Electric disclose past and current revenue from product sales in order to determine compensation for damages that Lantiq suffered due to the patent infringement. Furthermore, Lantiq requests that the sale and distribution of Billion’s modem products infringing upon Lantiq’s patents should be enjoined in ... Tuesday, 6 April 2010 Read more |
Deutsche Telekom invests in LantiqFrom Lantiq: T-Venture Makes Strategic Investment in LantiqT-Venture investment strengthens the company’s broadband communications market position and gives a competitive edge for future developmentsMunich/Neubiberg and Bonn, Germany – March 01, 2010 – Lantiq, a leading company in next-generation access and home networking technologies, and T-Venture today announced the closing of a strategic investment. T-Venture, the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom, is supporting Lantiq with a capital investment and will provide future strategic advice to the company. By agreement, the terms of the deal remain undisclosed. “We are pleased to announce that we have taken our relationship with Deutsche Telekom Group to the next level with this investment, and our partnership will help drive our products and technology roadmap for the benefit of our customers and the industry,” stated Christian Wolff, CEO of Lantiq. “Deutsche Telekom is one of the ... Tuesday, 6 April 2010 Read more |
Broadcom BCM96519 8 pair bonded chipsprBroadcom's New Multi-Line DSL Terminal Solution Increases Throughput of Carrier Transport Networks Integrated Multi-Line Design Provides Carriers and Service Providers with the Most Economical Solution for Backhauling and Higher Bandwidth Business ApplicationsIRVINE, Calif., Feb 16, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced a new chipset, production-ready reference design platform and associated firmware that is targeted for Ethernet-based wireless and wired backhauling applications, as well as Ethernet-based business applications that require higher bandwidth. The new Broadcom® BCM96519, the industry's first and most compact multi-line digital subscriber line (DSL) terminal solution, leverages Broadcom's high performance multi-mode ADSL2+/VDSL2, vectoring and channel bonding technologies. Compared to existing copper-based transport and backhaul systems in the market today, the BCM96519 significantly increases the capacity of Ethernet connectivity over copper, almost 10-fold, ... Tuesday, 6 April 2010 Read more |
Ikanos Velocity chips award from Internet Telephonypr Ikanos Velocity™ Broadband Chipset Receives Product of the Year AwardINTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine Recognizes Product for Advanced Features for IPTV and Lowest Power DesignFREMONT, Calif., February 22, 2010 — Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN), a leading provider of advanced broadband semiconductor and software products for the digital home, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has named the Ikanos Velocity™ broadband DSL chipset as a recipient of its 2009 Product of the Year Award. The Ikanos Velocity chipset is the industry’s lowest power product, providing superior performance with more than 30 percent power savings over competing offerings. In addition, Ikanos Velocity includes Ikanos Quality Video (iQV™) technology, which provides exceptional delivery of data-intensive triple play ... Tuesday, 6 April 2010 Read more |
Ikanos chips for 100 megabitspr Broadband in America: Achieving 100 Mbps to 100 Million and BeyondDownload New White Paper Outlining Approach to Rapid, Cost-Effective Next-Generation Broadband Deployments FREMONT, Calif., February 22, 2010 — As the Federal Communications Commission readies its National Broadband Plan to go before Congress mid-March, many approaches to delivering next-generation broadband services are being discussed. One of the most effective and rapidly deployable approaches continues to be the fiber-to-the-node architecture that employs traditional copper telephone lines – combined with advanced broadband DSL technology – as the last mile connection for consumers.These next-generation Broadband 2.0 hybrid networks are capable of delivering 100 megabit per second (Mbps) performance, equal to or even greater than alternative approaches. Additionally, these networks can provide this performance at a fraction of the cost of a fiber-to-the-home implementation, and can be deployed more quickly since they capitalize on ... Tuesday, 6 April 2010 Read more |
