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NeoPhotonics, Inphi complete 400ZR interop demo over 120km

By Peter Dykes

Inphi and NeoPhotonics have jointly completed the industry’s first interoperability demonstration of OIF 400ZR Implementation Agreement compliant coherent transceivers, operating successfully across the C-Band over 120km of optical fibre. Transceiver pairs consisting of Inphi’s COLORZ® II QSFP-DD with its Canopus™ 7nm Coherent DSP and NeoPhotonics 400ZR ClearLightTM OSFP were successfully linked. Both 400ZR coherent optics […]

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Inphi boosts PAM4 portfolio, intros new 800G DSP and Gen3 Porrima platform

By John Williamson

High speed data movement interconnect specialist Inphi Corp has announced it is sampling its new Spica™ 800G 7 nm PAM4 DSP, along with its new Porrima™ Gen3 Single-Lambda PAM4 platform. The new DSP product is billed as the world’s first 800 Gbps or 8 x 100 Gbps PAM4 DSP to enable 800G optical transceiver modules […]

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PacketFabric increases metro interconnectivity with Inphi

By Antony Savvas

PacketFabric has selected Inphi’s COLORZ 100GbE QSFP28 DWDM optics to increase network capacity between its metro data centre locations. PacketFabric is a leading supplier in the network-as-a-service (NaaS) market and competes against the likes of Megaport and Equinix. With up to 4Tbps of bandwidth over a single fibre, COLORZ enables PacketFabric to “dramatically scale” its […]

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Inphi introduces high performance SerDes IP technology

By Peter Dykes

Inphi Corporation has announced the availability of Capella™, its second-generation, high performance 112Gbps SerDes IP solution in 7nm. Inphi says this announcement builds on Inphi’s track record of having shipped over a million 56Gbps and 112Gbps ports to date and establishing itself as one of the most experienced SerDes IP vendors in the world. Available […]

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Inphi Completes Acquisition of eSilicon

By Peter Dykes

Inphi says it has completed the acquisition of eSilicon, as announced on November 11, 2019, in a transaction valued at approximately US$216 million in both cash and the assumption of debt. Inphi says the deal further solidifies Inphi’s market leadership and scale in high-performance electro-optics. “We are pleased to complete the acquisition of eSilicon,” said […]

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Inphi samples industry’s first coherent DSP enabling 400G pluggables

By Peter Dykes

Data interconnect vendor Inphi Corporation has announced it is sampling its new Canopus™ coherent Digital Signal Processor (DSP), which it claims is the industry’s first merchant 7nm coherent DSP. Canopus provides low power and high density QSFP-DD, OSFP and CFP2-DCO coherent pluggable modules for cloud and telecom customers. Inphi says Canopus makes high density IP […]

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Inphi to acquire eSilicon to lead in custom electro-optics for cloud and telecoms

By Peter Dykes

Inphi Corporation has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire eSilicon for US$216 million in both cash and the assumption of debt. Once complete, Inphi expects the acquisition would combine Inphi’s DSP, TiA, Driver and SiPho disciplines with eSilicon’s 2.5D packaging and custom silicon design capabilities and accelerate its roadmap for electro-optics, 5nm […]

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Inphi Samples 100 Gbits/s Porrima Single Lambda PAM4 Platform Solution

By John Williamson

Industry’s Lowest Power PAM4 DSP, Linear TIA and Drivers to Deliver Less than 3.5 W QSFP28 and SFP-DD Modules High-speed data movement interconnects specialist Inphi has announced the expansion of its 16 nm Porrima™ Single-Lambda Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM4) platform family, with a 100 Gbits/s/56 Gbaud platform solution for 100G QSFP28 and SFP-DD DR/FR optical […]

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Inphi And Innovium In 100-400G Datacentre Partnership

By John Williamson

High-speed data movement interconnect specialist Inphi Corporation and provider of switch silicon for datacentres Innovium are partnering to provide customers with multiple, highly scalable 100G to 400G datacentre solutions.High-speed data movement interconnect specialist Inphi Corporation and provider of switch silicon for datacentres Innovium are partnering to provide customers with multiple, highly scalable 100G to 400G […]

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Inphi announces Q4 and full year 2017 financial results

By Matthew Peach

Inphi, a developer of high-speed data interconnects, has just announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2017. Gross margin from continuing operations on a non-GAAP basis in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 70.3%, compared with 73.3% in the fourth quarter of 2016. The decrease was largely due to change in product […]

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Inphi announces sale of its memory business to Rambus for $90 million

By Matthew Peach

Inphi Corporation, a developer of high-speed, mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for the communications, data center and computing markets, has announced an agreement to sell its memory product business to Rambus Inc. for $90 million in cash inclusive of a 12.5% escrow. The sale is expected to close in the first half of Q3 2016, the company […]