Rambus agreed to acquire certain high speed signaling assets from Velio, a start-up based in Milpitas, California. The deal, which was valued at under $13 million, includes related Velio’s patent portfolio, the existing Velio licensing business, and a number of Velio personnel. Rambus said that by adding Velio’s high-speed signaling technologies to its serial interface offerings, it would accelerate its ability to deliver advanced chip-to-chip interface solutions.
Velio, which is now solely focused on its switch fabric and SerDes products, said it will become a customer of Rambus. The Velio product family includes its Zeus STS-1 Grooming Switches, which feature densities up to 180 Gbps (72×72 STS-48) streams; Quad 1.0-3.2 Gbps SerDes devices, featuring redundancy for storage and Ethernet networks, and an Octal 1.0-3.2 Gbps Serial Repeater/Retimer, for Ethernet and Fibre Channel applications.
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