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December 21, 2007
SiliconLine Raises A Round
Silicon Line GmbH, a German fabless semiconductor company that is specialized in making VCSEL drivers and amplifiers used in gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, and several other flavours of optical networking, has raised a Series A round of an undisclosed amount from Belgium-based Capital-E, which has close connections to IMEC, and Germany based Munich Venture Partners (MVP) which is close to the Fraunhofer Institute, as well as SAP and Swisscom.
Silicon Line's website reveals that it has been focussed on optical networking, but according to a statement from one of its new backers in regards to the funding, it will develop chips for portable devices too.
Its claim to fame is the ability to devleop a range of sophisticated analog designs on CMOS. Normally, says SiliconLine, those kind of chips are done in bipolar CMOS or compound semiconductors such as GaAs, both of which are more expensive and use the smaller-sized wafers.
The company was founded in 2005.
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