Ensphere Solutions Secures $4 Million Investment from Ideavelopers
-- New Investment Will Fuel Future R/D, and Rapid Commercialization of “Light Peak” Transceivers --
Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 22, 2009 – Ensphere Solutions, an emerging leader in advanced communications semiconductor ICs, received a $4 million investment from Ideavelopers in August of 2009. Ideavelepers is a pioneer in high-technology investment in Middle East and manages Egypt’s first technology venture capital fund "The Technology Development Fund".
“We are extremely excited about our partnership with Ideavelopers” said Hessam Mohajeri, Chief Executive Officer of Ensphere Solutions. “Idealvelopers’ investment will help us to expedite our product development and rollout plans. In addition to financial backing, we can tremendously benefit from Ideavelopers’ experience and industry contacts”.
“We are proud to be engaged with one of the most promising emerging semiconductor companies addressing the optical market,” said Ahmad Gomaa CEO of Ideavelopers. “Ensphere has aggressive plans to launch a portfolio of exciting optical products including transceivers ICs for Intel’s Light Peak technology. Light Peak will have an enormous market footprint reaching applications such as PCs, peripherals, workstations, displays, mobile handsets, docking stations, and more. Ensphere is well positioned to reap benefits from this exciting market”.
Light Peak is an emerging fiber optics-based interconnect technology architected by Intel Corporation. It has been designed to support data rates up to 10 Gb/s with the potential of reaching 100 Gb/s over the next decade. This technology has shattered size, cost, and power barriers making it the first optical connectivity technology suitable for mainstream applications.
In addition to Light Peak transceivers, Ensphere has a diverse product portfolio addressing front-end physical layer chips for various optical and copper interfaces. These products include Limiting Amplifiers (LA), Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIA), Clock/Data Recovery devices, and Laser Drivers for various interfaces with date rates of 1 Gb/s to 40 Gb/s.
About Ensphere Solutions Inc.
Ensphere Solutions, Inc. is a privately held fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California with a design center in Cairo, Egypt. Ensphere develops and markets semiconductor products for various optical interfaces used in mainstream applications in communication, consumer electronic, and computing markets. In addition to chip-level products, Ensphere has offered design services and intellectual properties (IPs) to its strategic customers.
About Ideavlopers:
Founded in 2001, Ideavelopers, a subsidiary of EFG-Hermes, and fund advisor for The Technology Development Fund, partners with technology entrepreneurs to greatly increase their chance of success. Ideavelopers’ priority is to support entrepreneurs and early-stage business by providing quality venture development services. Ideavelopers has already participated in the funding of 40 technology-driven companies on behalf of its investment partnerships.
Ideavelopers brings together the resources, experience, and strategic relationships needed to build the next generation of leading technology companies. We take companies through the entire business process, from the inception of an idea through to the creation of a business built on a solid foundation. Whether Ideavelopers provides advice on fine-tuning business plans, investment money, intensive guidance, or executive recruiting, Ideavelopers is here to help improve the rate of success.
Contacts
Ideavelopers Enshpere Solutions, Inc.
Tania Hamilton Al Gharakhanian
Marketing Officer 2900 Lakeside Dr. #228
Ideavelopers Santa Clara, CA 95138
+ 202. 3534. 6064 + 408 850 3520
thamilton@ideavelopers.com agharakhanian@enspheresolutions.com
Ensphere Solutions to Deliver New Transceiver Integrated Circuit for Intel’s Light Peak Optical Interconnect Technology
-- New ESI-XVR10100 Features Low Power Consumption and Provides Dual Channel Operation, Full TX/RX Operation at 10Gbps in Compact Die --
Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 8, 2009 – Ensphere Solutions, an emerging leader in advanced communications semiconductor ICs, today announced the availability of a new transceiver IC for the rapidly-developing converged I/O interconnect Light Peak technology
Ensphere Solutions’ new ESI-XVR10100 is a cost-effective IC which interfaces with optical links and provides signal conversion between optical and electrical signals. It is one of the key building blocks of the Light Peak technology. Light Peak is a new transport technology that uses fiber optics instead of copper wires and is able to support full duplex data rates up to 10 Gbps. It supports legacy protocols such as USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, PCIe and others. The technology is designed from ground up to be inexpensive and small. It supports a wide range of devices such as handhelds, laptops, PCs, CE, and others.
Light Peak, developed by Intel Corporation, enables a single connection for video, storage devices, printers, webcams, and other peripherals that connect to a PC.. Its universal connector has the potential to replace multiple incompatible sockets. The ESI-XVR10100 monolithic device supports two independent channels, each with separate transmit and receive signal paths operating at 10 Gbps. Its flexible architecture supports multiple diagnostic modes as well as a comprehensive set of power management modes. ESI-XVR10100 is fabricated using deep submicron CMOS process technology, ensuring lowest power dissipation and cost with the flexibility to offer variations and customization for a broad range of applications.
“We have worked closely with Intel on this new design to assure optimal performance and minimal power dissipation, which is a key requirement for future portable applications,” said Hessam Mohajeri, Ensphere Solutions Chief Executive Officer. “Ensphere has a wealth of experience designing products supporting high data rates such as 10 Gbps as well as 25 Gbps. We are accustomedused to providing completeintense technical support to our customers, which is. This support is absolutely essential in order to overcome the challenge of designing systems and modules running at such high data rates.”
“Intel is pleased to be working with Ensphere Solutions to make Light Peak transceiver components ready for 2010,” said Jason Ziller, director, Optical I/O Program Office, Intel Corp. “The company has significant experience in advanced communications technology and design expertise that is vital to the implementation of Light Peak.”
Availability
Sample quantities of ESI-XVR10100 are available now and production quantities will be available at the end of this quarter.
About Ensphere Solutions Inc.
Ensphere Solutions Inc., a privately held company, offers advanced communications semiconductor ICs, IP cores and professional design services. Based in Silicon Valley, CA, the company specializes in the development of standard and custom mixed signal transceivers and RF chips. The company’s standard products are targeted for high-speed optical data communications.
Ensphere Solutions Announces the Availability of a Color LVDS Transmitter IP for Flat Panel Displays
Santa Clara, California June 30, 2007 – Ensphere Solutions Inc., a fabless semiconductor company focusing on high performance mixed signal and RF devices and IPs; announced the availability of a complete 80 MHz pixel LVDS transmitter offering up to 2.8 Gbps over 5 lanes targeting flat panel applications. This IP enables SoC vendors to support on-chip LVDS transmitters.
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Ensphere Solutions Announces the Availability of a Complete HDTV Front-end
Santa Clara, California May 10, 2007 – Ensphere Solutions Inc., a fabless semiconductor company focusing on high performance mixed signal and RF devices and IPs; announced the availability of a complete front-end IP for HDTV receivers. Its state of the art, low power ADCs and clock recovery blocks; are ideal for integration in chips containing significant amount of digital noise. This IP also includes an LVDS transmitter, which makes it a complete system suited for HDTV applications.
Ensphere Solution Starts Operation in Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara, California October 1, 2006 – Ensphere Solutions Inc. .,a fabless semiconductor company focusing on high performance mixed signal and RF devices and IPs; has launched its operation with offices in Santa Clara, California. This office will serve as the worldwide headquarter for company’s design, sales, and marketing operations.
