IC Tuner Pioneer MaxLinear to Acquire Physpeed

By Doug Lung
published

MaxLinear has signed an agreement to acquire Physpeed, allowing it to expand beyond its TV and satellite silicon tuner and mixed signal integrated circuits into very high speed IP connectivity. Physpeed is a privately held developer of high-speed physical layer interconnection products. Physpeed's solutions include optical physical medium devices (PMDs) and clock data recovery (CDR) devices operating at line-rate speeds ranging from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps today and up to 400 Gbps in the future.

Dr. Kishore Seendripu, CEO of MaxLinear, said, “Physpeed’s expertise in high-speed analog design, combined with MaxLinear’s proven low-power digital CMOS mixed signal-integration and DSP capabilities, will bring to market solutions that will uniquely enable the explosive data traffic growth generated from smartphones and tablets, and over-the-top (OTT) streaming video, in addition to cloud computing and data analytics in hyper-scale data centers.”

Seendripu added, “We believe that the unique engineering capabilities which enabled MaxLinear to pioneer Full-Spectrum Capture (FSC) technologies in cable and satellite broadband communications markets, ideally position us to develop world-class high speed physical layer interconnect devices which will drive the migration of data center and telecommunication markets from 100Gbps to 400Gbps links.”

Doug Lung
Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack. A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.