Shenzhen, China, April 28, 2014: Prominent FTTH component supplier APAT Optoelectronics Components Company, Ltd (“APAT OE”) today announced that it would take over the staff and facility of Avago Technologies’ (NASDAQ: AVGO) Taiwan R&D Center (“the Center”). This transaction brought to APAT OE the Center’s deep expertise in 10Gb/s – 40Gb/s laser and transceiver design and manufacturing, as well as key intellectual properties and design solutions. Avago further agrees to supply ICs for APAT OE to integrate into its transceiver designs.
APAT OE also agreed to form a strategic partnership with the leading high-performance analog and mixed signal IC supplier Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ: SMTC). Semtech will supply IC solutions to APAT OE for all its products.
Supported by the newly obtained Taiwan R&D center, a 100,000 square meter production facility and a National Optical Device Reliability Laboratory, APAT OE is fully capable of designing and mass producing lasers and transceivers up to 40Gb/s in data rate, thus providing superior products and services to its customers. For example, its 10G LTE SFP+ transceiver is based on an Avago design, utilizing Semtech low-power-consumption laser driver, limiting amplifier, TIA, and APAT’s OSAs. The product is guaranteed industrial grade reliability, with wide operating temperature range and long life. Transceiver model AMS3431-2A-1 and AMS3431-2A-2 are 2km commercial and industrial grades, respectively. Model AMS3433-2A-1 and AMS3433-2A-2 are 10km commercial and industrial grades, respectively.
Partnering with Avago and Semtech will help APAT OE to continue providing high quality, high performance products to the global market. It will also enable APAT OE to further expand in the access market and make entry into metro and datacom markets.
“APAT Optoelectronics is a long time trusted manufacture partner for Avago,” said Avago’s VP and Fiber Optics Products Division GM Philip Gadd. “The addition of Avago’s Taiwan Development team to APAT will enhance the capability of APAT Optoelectronics on optical components. It will complete its product portfolio on 10G TOSA/ROSA/Transceiver, as well as toward design path to 40G and 100G products. This action will also assure the timely product development of Avgao’s future product with APAT’s Taiwan team.”
“As a leading supplier of high-quality analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, we are always looking to partner with market winners,” remarked James Kim, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “We are very pleased to see a strong team from APAT continue executing the original Avago product plan. The combination of R&D capability of the ex-Avago team and cutting edge ICs from Semtech will allow APAT to rapidly grow its share in LTE and datacom markets worldwide.”
“Taking-over Avago’s Taiwan team is an important step of our growth plan. And I am very happy to see that Semtech joined us in partnership at this critical juncture,” said APAT OE’s CEO, Rex Gu. “The time-tested transceiver design capability of the Taiwan team, combined with APAT’s advanced automated packaging platform, will soon produce products with superior performance and high quality. We plan to meet the demand of rapid deployment of Chinese LTE network with 10G SFP+ transceivers in the immediate future. Afterwards, we will play an ever increasing role in the growing 40G enterprise network and data center markets. Partnerships with Avago and Semtech will ensure the availability of the best optical and electronic devices, enabling us to provide timely and quality service to all our customers.”
About Avago Technologies
Avago Technologies is a leading designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems with a focus in III-V compound semiconductor design and processing. Backed by an extensive portfolio of intellectual property, Avago products serve three primary target markets: wireless communications, wired infrastructure, and industrial and other. Avago has a global employee presence and heritage of technical innovation dating back 50 years to its Hewlett-Packard roots. For more information, visit Avago’s website: www.avagotech.com
Avago, Avago Technologies, and the A logo are trademarks of Avago Technologies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
About Semtech Corporation
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for high-end consumer, computing, communications and industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For more information, visit http://www.semtech.com
Semtech and the Semtech logo are marks of Semtech Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their owners.
About APAT Optoelectronic Components Company, Ltd.
APAT Optoelectronics Components Company, Ltd is a leading designer, developer and global supplier of optical devices primarily in the FTTH market. With a focus on automation and process innovation, APAT OE has achieved a reputation for being the highest quality supplier and is the supplier of choice for all large Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers, e.g. Huawei, ALU. APAT OE is based in Shenzhen, China, a center for technology innovations and is benefited from the closeness to its key customers and an abundance of engineering talents. For more information, visit APAT OE’s website: www.apatoe.com
APAT, APAT Optoelectronic, and the APAT logo are trademarks of APAT OE. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.