Lantiq was a Germany-based

fabless Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or ''fab'') to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclu ...

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities (" doping") to its crystal structure. When two regions with different doping level ...

company of approximately 1,000 people formed via a spin-out from

Infineon Technologies Infineon Semiconductor solutions is the largest microcontroller manufacturer in the world, as well as Germany's largest semiconductor manufacturer. It is also the leading automotive semiconductor manufacturer globally. Infineon had roughly 58,0 ...

. The company was purchased in 2015 by

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

for $345M.

Corporate history

On 7 July 2009

announced that it agreed to sell its wire-based communications division to

Golden Gate Capital Golden Gate Capital is an American private equity firm based in San Francisco. The firm makes investments in a number of select industries, including technology, financial services, retail and industrial, through leveraged buyout transactions, as ...

, resulting in a new stand-alone name of Lantiq This was one of several steps to raise cash during the

Great Recession The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009.

. Some technology had been acquired when Infineon purchased Taiwan-based ADMTek (partially owned by Accton Technology Corporation) for approximately US$100 million in cash in 2004. Some assets and patents acquired from

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-based Aware Inc for about US$6.75 million were included in the spinoff. The division was headed by Christian Wolff when the deal closed on 6 November 2009 for about 243 million Euros. Lantiq's central functions and the executive management team were located in

Neubiberg Neubiberg is a municipality south-east of Munich, Germany, founded in 1912. It is part of the Munich district of Upper Bavaria. It used to have a military airport that was used as a Luftwaffe base in the Third Reich. After the war, it served as a ...

, near

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Germany. In May 2012, Dan Artusi from Conexant replaced Wolff as chief executive. Speedport W 921V - board - Lantiq PSB 80920 EL-40004

On 2 February 2015 it was announced that Intel agreed to buy Lantiq (a transaction valued at $345 million) in an attempt to expand its range of chips used in connected Internet-of-Things gadgets and IoT gateways. Intel sold the business to MaxLinear in 2020.

Markets

Lantiq made semiconductor products for

computer network A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. In order to communicate, the computers and devices must be connected by wired media like copper cables, optical fibers, or b ...

s used by

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telecommunications companies in access networks and

home network Home Network is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language Discretionary service, discretionary cable television, cable and satellite television, satellite specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. Home Network broadcasts programs r ...

ing. Their products included SOC's (

system-on-a-chip A system on a chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or electronic system onto a single microchip. Typically, an SoC includes a central processing unit (CPU) with memory, input/output, and dat ...

) and other

integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

s for technologies including the

digital subscriber line Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines. In telecommunications marketing, the term DSL is widely understood to mean asymmetric dig ...

family,

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also known as IP telephony, is a set of technologies used primarily for voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. VoIP enables voice calls to be transmitted as ...

wireless LAN A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, campus, or office building ...

Gigabit Ethernet In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is the term applied to transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second. The most popular variant, 1000BASE-T, is defined by the IEEE 802.3ab standard. It came into use in ...

and

passive optical network A passive optical network (PON) is a fiber-optic telecommunications network that uses only ''unpowered'' devices to carry signals, as opposed to electronic equipment. In practice, PONs are typically used for the '' last mile'' between Internet ...

s. In January 2011 Lantiq announced home networking technology compliant with the ITU-T G.hn standard using the brand name XWAY HNX.

References

External links

Lantiq's web site

OpenWrt Wiki: Lantiq SoCs

OpenWrt Track: Lantiq
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Corporate history

Markets

See also

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