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  • Company Type For Profit
  • Contact Email corporate@gennum.com
  • Phone Number 19056322055

Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) designs innovative semiconductor solutions and intellectual property (IP) cores to serve the rising global demand for high-speed data transmission products in the broadcast, networking, storage and telecommunications markets.

Gennum offers proven optical, analog and mixed-signal solutions with uncompromising

signal integrity to support standards such as high-definition (HD) video, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand®, Ethernet, SONET and PCI Express®. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Canada, and has global design, research and development and sales offices in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, United States, Taiwan, India and the United Kingdom.

Gennum Fast Facts:

* Dr. Franz Fink, President and CEO

* Headquartered in Burlington, Ontario Canada

* Founded in 1973

* 2010 revenue of $128 M (USD)

* Listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:GND)

* Employs approximately 400 people worldwide

Markets:

Broadcast Video

Our knowledge of high-speed signal transmission technologies enables us to deliver industry-leading HDTV components for professional and broadcast video markets. Our award-winning portfolio includes SDI equalizers, crosspoints, reclockers, cable drivers, serializers, deserializers, timing and clock conditioning solutions. As a key contributor to the SMPTE, we continue to pioneer transport technologies that deliver new experiences for the video broadcast market.

Networking, Storage and Telecom

The demand for more bandwidth and increased speed to support the explosion of data and video traffic over the internet is driving the need for high-speed signal integrity solutions that ensure ultra-fast data transmission in various networking, storage and telecommunications applications. To ensure the networks of today and tomorrow can meet this growing demand, Gennum leverages its expertise in high-performance, integrated module ICs and components for the high speed (10G+) optical transceiver market to offer a comprehensive suite of backplane interconnect and optical transceiver ICs including laser/modulator drivers, equalizers, SerDes, receive optical sub-assemblies (ROSAs), clock and data recovery (CDRs), re-drivers, bridges, limiting amplifiers and transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs). Our high-speed and high-performance optical transceiver component technology allows for integration and bundling advantages and our expertise positions us well for the nascent 40/100G market.

In addition, Gennum’s Snowbush Division delivers high-speed digital and mixed-signal IP for the computer, networking, storage and telecom markets, accelerating product development by providing co-engineering resources and high-performance platform technology.

Industrial Connectivity

Designers of industrial video applications are rapidly upgrading their existing analog-over-coaxial systems to full bandwidth HD video. Gennum AviiaTM (Advanced Video Interface for Industrial Applications) solutions meet this need with the industry’s first HD video-over-coax interface for industrial imaging applications. Aviia solutions expand Gennum’s leading A/V technology into new markets including video surveillance (HDcctv), machine vision, medical, digital signage, passenger infotainment, industrial imaging and video conferencing. A pioneer in this market, Gennum is a founding member of the HDcctv Alliance, an industry consortium developing HD connectivity standards for mainstream video surveillance and CCTV applications.

Consumer Connectivity

Today's consumer applications require increasing levels of performance and data throughput. For example, Intel's Thunderboltâ„¢ technology is a revolutionary new high-speed computer input/output (I/O) method that offers a quantum leap in data transfer rates compared to other standards. These unprecedented speed requirements place unique demands on the transmission media. That's where Gennum's expertise in the 10Gb/s datacom space comes into play. Our many years of experience with high-speed links has given us the unique capability to rise to the challenges of Thunderboltâ„¢ with the industry's first high-speed solutions for Thunderboltâ„¢ applications.

Intellectual Property (IP)

Gennum's Snowbush IP group addresses the need for the design and delivery of silicon-proven, high-speed serial interface IP. The Snowbush IP portfolio includes complete, integrated, PHY and controller solutions for standards such as SuperSpeed USB, PCI Express® and Serial ATA (SATA), and single and multi-standard SerDes for applications with data rates from 1 Gb/s to over 10 Gb/s. Gennum's Snowbush IP group is committed to supporting customers with diverse foundry and process requirements.

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M&A Details

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Gennum Corporation was acquired by Semtech for $494M on Jan 23, 2012. This deal was done in Cash.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Where is Gennum Corporation's headquarters? Gennum Corporation is located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.Who are Gennum Corporation's competitors? Alternatives and possible competitors to Gennum Corporation may include Render Networks and Surf Broadband Solutions.