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JULY 11th, 2005
Superconductor technology has been in the wings a long time as a
potential way to reduce energy consumption, improve the speed of electronic circuits and enhance the quality of telecommunications
systems. Early signs from superconductive companies, which have come in slowly but surely, indicate that the technology may
soon become a mainstream commercial reality.
Superconductor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:SCON) ("STI"), recent preliminary
financials are another sign that superconductors may be closer to an acceptable price point with an acceptable return on investment.
For the second quarter of 2005, which ended July 2, STI has estimated revenue to be about $8.5 million, compared to $4.4 million
in the first quarter of 2005 and $6.3 million in the second quarter of 2004. Net commercial product revenues show a slightly
higher increase. For the second quarter of 2005, the company estimates $7.6 million, which is a 100 percent increase over
the first quarter of 2005, which came in at $3.8 million and a 65 percent increase over the $4.6 million of the second quarter
in 2004.
Jeff Quiram, STI’s CEO expects positive results in the upcoming
quarters and in 2006, "I am very encouraged by the significant sequential increase in revenue over the first quarter. STI
is continuing to gain market acceptance for our solutions, especially in the next generation network deployments. We have
strengthened our sales team to better position STI as an exceptional business partner. We are proud of our progress selling
additional solutions to our existing customers and diversifying our customer base. The cumulative effect of these measures
is expected to have a continuing positive impact on our business for the second half of 2005 and into 2006."
STI’s SuperLink product is a cryogenic receiver front-end
that is intended to lower operation costs and improve performance of telecommunications networks.
JUNE 15th, 2005
Infineon Extends DSL Portfolio With ViNAX Chipset
Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX) (NYSE: IFX) has introduced its ViNAX chipset, considered
by the company to be a complete DSL2/ADSL2+ end-to-end solution. The chipset , compliant to the VDSL2/ G.993.2 (Very-High-Bit-Rate
Digital Subscriber Line 2) standard, offers symmetric 100 Mbit/s over copper wires at distances beyond 1150 feet. The new
chip now makes it feasible for carriers to offer multi-channel HDTV, VoIP and high-speed Internet connections without disrupting
the upgrade path of consumers who use ADSL/2/2+ modems.
Christian Wolff, Vice President Communications Business Group and
General Manager Wireline Access Business Unit at Infineon on release of the chipset indicated that Infineon is no stranger
to the broadband arena, shipping over 6 million ports in 2004, "We are very proud to introduce the industry's first fully
standard compliant VDSL2 chipset. Full standard compliancy is a prerequisite for interoperability and, therefore, the key
enabling factor for mass deployment. Taking advantage of Infineon's expertise in ADSL2+ technology, with more than 6 million
ports shipped in 2004 alone, ViNAX assures highest ADSL2+ backwards compatibility and interoperability necessary for a smooth
VDSL2 deployment. ViNAX allows carriers to seamlessly upgrade their DSL networks by gradually changing line cards in the central
offices or street cabinets to VDSL2 while end users still use their ADSL/2/2+ modems at home."
To provide a VDSL2 solution for telecom customers VDSL2 needs, Infineon offers a VDSL2 single-chip solution called the ViNAX-CPE
(Customer Premise Equipment). The chip, like the central office chipset, is also compliant to the International Telecommunications
Union's standard.
JUNE 14th, 2005
Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNXT) has brought out its family
of VDSL and VDSL2 chips. Called the Accelity family, the chips are for central office (CO) and customer premise equipment
(CPE) applications. The chips, which are compliant with the VDSL2/G.993.2 International Telecommunications Union standard,
are for the next wave in Internet connectivity, triple-play broadband service.
According to Akram Atallah, Vice President and General Manager of
Conexant's Broadband Access Business, the company is a major provider of broadband solutions, having shipped over 130 million
DSL ports, "Our new VDSL chipset family builds on our proven track record in DSL innovation and digital signal processing
to raise the bar in terms of density, and lower overall system cost. Conexant has shipped more than 130 million DSL ports
to customers globally, and we will continue to develop standards-based products to further strengthen our industry-leading
position in broadband access semiconductor solutions."
Both CO and CPE chips come complete with reference design kits for
fast system development. Conexant also gave pricing for the chipset solutions. The CO Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and
packet chipsets were quoted at $15.00 per port. The CPE ATM and packet chipsets were quoted at $17.00 per port. Prices were
given for quantities of 100,000. Conexant also said that the chipsets were now in production and shipping to customers worldwide.
JUNE 3rd, 2005
RAD Communications to Demonstrate Second Generation TDM over IP ASIC
RAD Data Communications plans to demonstrate its second generation TDM over IP (TDMoIP) pseudowire
ASIC chip at the Metro Ethernet Forum at SUPERCOMM 2005. The ASIC chip includes clock recovery functions that follow the G.823/824
jitter and wander requirements. Samples of the chip are scheduled to be available in November of this year.
RAD Data Communications is a provider of access equipment for the
data communications and telecommunications market. The company reports an installed base of 8,000,000 units.
JUNE 3rd, 2005
New Visual Corporation (OTCBB:NVEI), known for its Embarq transport
chipset, has raised $3.5 million from a private placement of three year 7% Senior Secured Convertible Debentures. The funds
are planned according to Brad Ketch, New Visual's CEO to complete the beta version of the chipset, "These funds will allow
us to aggressively pursue our goal of completing the beta version of the chipset this year. Our powerful technology will add
fuel to the fire of broadband growth around the world." Expanding on the importance of the high speed, long distance copper-based
communications technology, Ketch added, "My recent conversations with the presidents of several telephone companies confirm
that the Embarq transport chipset is critical to the success of their growth strategies. Their strategy of competing with
cable companies for consumers' entertainment dollars is made much more profitable with New Visual's technology."
MAY 26th, 2005
Toshiba Reveals Photon-Based Encrypted Communication Technology
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (TREL), a corporate research arm of Toshiba Corp. based in Cambridge,
announced at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS) Conference in Baltimore the development of a light source that
sends photons one at a time through optical fibre cable. The technology is based on a quantum dot that has a radius of 45
nanometers.
Dr Andrew Shields, who heads the Quantum Information Group at TREL,
noted the new scientific frontier that the long distance photon development opens up, "Exploiting the quantum properties of
light allows us to communicate and process information in ways that have not been possible previously. A good example is in
quantum cryptography, which allows us to verify the secrecy of information sent on single photons."
MAY 23rd, 2005
Quellan Inc, based in Atlanta, Georgia, announced its Nx2000 6.25 Gbps
Quad Wideband Noise Canceller. The chip, designed as a companion chip to the company's Eq601 Wideband Equalizer, overcomes
timing delays that are normally associated with wire traces, cables and connectors in high speed applications such as network
communications. The new technologies' capability to increase the speed of the enterprise without expensive high-speed equipment
was confirmed by Tony Stelliga, Quellan's President and CEO, "The Nx2000 provides OEM's the interconnect performance they've
been dreaming of -- up to a 400% increase in speed -- all without having to change their interconnect infrastructure. This
greatly reduces both capital equipment and development costs, while preventing costly network downtime required to install
new interconnects. The Nx2000 quad canceller is fully adaptive to ensure the highest performance across a wide range possible
system variations in Telecom/Enterprise, Network Storage, and Computing Applications."
The Nx2000 chip, an analog VLSI design with over 4000 discrete analog devices,
is based on an algorithm that synthesizes network signal interference and then determines and applies a noise correction signal.
In order to accomplish this, the chip is placed between the connector and the transceiver to cancel any signal coupling between
local transmitters and adjacent receivers. To give the Nx2000 fully adaptive phase, amplitude and frequency control the chip
includes eight channel emulator cores.
The chip, which has applications in a number of "market-demanding" areas,
is priced at $99.00 in quantities of $500.00 and up. Power consumption is rated at 600 mW per receive channel.
MAY 20th, 2005
Crimson Samples Low Cost MSPP-on-a-Chip
Crimson Microsystems, based in Sunnyvale, California, has put its Ruby MSPP-on-a-Chip out on
the market. The chip is aimed at designers who need to design fully SDH/SONET-compliant access edge Multiservice Provisioning
Platforms (MSPPs).
Several companies have already based new designs on Ruby, one of
which is Xalted Networks. Bob Kondamoori, CEO, of Xalted talked about disruptive price points, "For broad, high volume deployment
of MSPPs at the access edge, new RFPs from carriers require the reliability of fully-compliant SDH/SONET at disruptive price
points. Our MSPPs based on Ruby will allow carriers to aggregate legacy PDH services with emerging data services, such as
Ethernet and SAN extension across the WAN, to cost-effectively expand their service offerings."
The CEO of Crimson Microsystems, Paul Nahi, elaborated on the target
market for Ruby, "Ruby is aimed at significantly reducing the cost and complexity of today's MSPP equipment, enabling carriers
worldwide to expand existing infrastructure to support new services and bandwidth demands. These new demands are driven by
triple play applications as well as next generation wireless and Ethernet-to-the-enterprise. Now that Ruby-based MSPPs can
achieve access-appropriate price points and form factors, carriers can leverage and extend their SDH/SONET networks to the
access edge while preserving all its inherent advantages."
Crimson, which gives the price of its Ruby CM4800 chip as one-quarter
the price of an equivalent multi-chip solution, has priced the chip at $500 in volume.
MARCH 7th, 2005
GDA Technologies Selects Fulcrum Microsystems Switch Chip for Dual Processor
Network System
Fulcrum Microsystems
announced that its PivotPoint FM1020 chip has been chosen as the asynchronous interconnect switch solution for GDA Technologies'
ATCA-G2800 dual processor network access system. The system is designed with the Intel IXP 2800 Network Processing Unit (NPU)
for use in a variety of carrier network access and edge networking applications.
Gopa Periyadan, Vice
President & GM of System & Software Business Unit at GDA Technologies noted that Fulcrum's products gave its staff
the flexibility to adjust product designs to the needs of its customers. The design will permit its customers to easily upgrade
the system for an additional IXP 2880 NPU as well as give system developers the capability to program encryption technology
into servers for individualized security applications.
GDA Technologies through
a global network of offices provides complete concept to silicon to systems design solutions for its customers. The company's
expertise is in ASICs, FPGAs, IP Cores, boards, SoCs, software and systems.
FEBRUARY 28th, 2005
T-Networks Added to List of Indium Phosphide Funded Companies
T-Networks
has joined the list of companies, which includes BinOptics and Infinera, that
have received venture capital funding for Indium Phosphide based integrated circuits. T-Networks indicated that its Indium Phosphide circuits exceed the distance-extinction-power
product of other optical semiconductor technologies and can be used in either non-cooled or cooled solutions for 10 Gbps and
40 Gbps transmission systems.
T-Networks,
Incorporated for its latest round, Series C, received a $5.5 million investment, which brings it total funding to date to
$60 million. The lead investor was TL Ventures. Other investors included Greylock Partners, U.S. Venture Partners, and Sequoia
Capital.
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