How we win
Leading the Analog Connectivity Layer of AI
Our Expanding Data Center Portfolio
High-performance Laser Drivers (LDs) and Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIAs) for next-generation optical transceivers support high-speed data center connectivity across a broad range of optical architectures.
Ultra-low-power LDs and TIAs optimized for linear optical architectures, enabling high-speed connectivity with reduced reliance on power-hungry DSPs.
High-performance analog equalizers for high-speed copper interconnects, delivering ultra-low power and sub-100ps latency for AI/ML data center applications.
GainCore is Semtech's high-power indium phosphide gain chip family. It provides the building blocks for coherent optical transport links and scale-across networks, delivering the optical gain needed as data center architectures scale.
LambdaCore and PhotoCore enable high-speed optical connectivity across the transmit and receive sides of the link, working hand in hand to support data center architectures as they scale.
EARLY CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
Shaping What’s Next, From the Start
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Decades of Experience
2002
Photodiode on Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) architecture patented (Gennum heritage, pre-2012 acquisition)
2003
Starts filing foundational TIA patents (Gennum heritage, pre-2012 acquisition)
2009
Sierra Monolithics (founded 1986) acquired, bringing 10G, 40G and 100G optical signal integrity capabilities
2010
Launches industry's first integrated Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) with laser driver (LD) (Gennum heritage, pre-2012 acquisition)
2012
Gennum acquisition (founded 1973), strengthening 1G to 25G optical signal integrity capabilities
2014
Industry's highest performance 10Gbps TIA/LDs for 4G mobile networks
2018
Industry's highest performance 100Gbps (4x25Gbps) Datacenter CDRs with integrated TIA/LD
2020
Industry's highest performance 10G Passive Optical Networks (PON) TIA/LD
Tri-Edge™ PAM4 CDR platform launched for 200G/400G data centers, industry-leading CDRs with integrated TIA/LD
2023
Industry's first 5G-Advanced CDRs + TIA/LD (50Gbps)
2024
Industry's highest performance 800Gbps (8x100Gbps) LPO TIA/LDs
Industry's first 50G PON Asymmetric OLT Analog chipsets
2025
Industry's lowest power 50G Asymmetric PON ONU chipsets
2026
Industry's first linear octal TIAs and MZM drivers (224Gbps/lane), supporting NPO/CPO optical engines up to 6.4T and 12.8T
Acquired HieFo and D-Tech Optoelectronics, bringing Indium Phosphide laser technology and high-efficiency photonics in-house
Where does Semtech fit in the AI data center?
Semtech operates in the high-performance analog connectivity layer that helps move data between compute resources. Its technologies support both copper and optical links, helping amplify, condition, transmit, and receive high-speed signals while addressing the power and signal-integrity challenges created by increasingly complex AI infrastructure.
What role do FiberEdge, DirectEdge, CopperEdge, GainCore, LambdaCore, and PhotoCore play in Semtech's portfolio?
FiberEdge and DirectEdge address high-speed optical connectivity, including technologies used to transmit and receive data over fiber. CopperEdge addresses high-speed electrical connectivity, using technologies like linear redrivers to help maintain signal integrity across copper links.
GainCore provides key building blocks for coherent optical transport links in scale-across networks.
LambdaCore and PhotoCore enable intra-data center high-speed optical connectivity with high-performance photonic devices.
Semtech has built a diverse portfolio that covers evolving connectivity needs in AI infrastructure.
How does Semtech's portfolio support the rapidly changing needs of data centers?
What differentiates Semtech's approach to data center connectivity?
Semtech combines decades of specialized, high-speed analog expertise with an increasingly customer-driven development model. The company focuses on solving difficult connectivity problems around bandwidth, power, and signal integrity, while customers in the design phase to develop technologies that emerging architectures require.