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. In 2014, Aquantia founded the NBASE-T Alliance together with

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. 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

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traffic. The NBASE-T Alliance promoted the 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T standard, which was ratified as the 802.3bz standard by the

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in 2016. The standard enabled Cat5e cables to carry 2.5 Gb of data per second and Cat6 cables to carry 5 Gbps. In 2016, Aquantia announced a technology, that made it possible to achieve up to 100Gbps over a copper cable. It won Company of the Year at the 2014 annual Creativity in Electronics awards, and was ranked by Deloitte Fast 500 as the fastest-growing semiconductor company in North America in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2016, Aquantia was named a finalist in UBM Tech’s

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and EDN Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards for “Company of the Year". The company was acquired by Marvell Technology Group on September 19, 2019. 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

Aquantia acquired the 10GBASE-T assets of PLX Technology in September 2012. PLX had picked them up in September 2010 from Teranetics.

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* (archived) {{Authority control Defunct semiconductor companies of the United States Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange 2004 establishments in California Companies based in Milpitas, California 2017 initial public offerings 2019 mergers and acquisitions 2019 disestablishments in California