26 June 2012

GigOptix licenses SiGe millimeterwave technology from IBM

GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components for high-speed information streaming) has signed a license agreement with IBM to incorporate IBM’s silicon germanium (SiGe) millimeterwave transceiver technology with GigOptix’s E-band wireless solutions portfolio, including its newly released advanced E-band power amplifier.

“We are very excited about the opportunities that IBM’s SiGe millimeterwave technology enables,” said Andrea Betti-Berutto, senior vice president and chief technology officer of GigOptix. “SiGe enables much lower power, smaller size and much higher levels of integration to the current gallium arsenide (GaAs) solutions in the market.”

EJL Wireless Research, in its most recent report, forecast E-band point-to-point radio links as being one of the fastest growing segments in the wireless mobile backhaul market with greater than 100% Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) to 2016.

“Coupling IBM's SiGe with GigOptix’s millimeterwave packaging and high power GaAs amplifiers will enable the high spectral efficiencies and data rates being demanded by network operators on their wireless mobile backhaul networks,” Betti-Berutto added. “We feel that GigOptix is uniquely positioned in the data communication market offering a complete bundled solution for both high speed optical networks and now high speed wireless E-band links.”

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