Lantiq is an international fabless semiconductor

Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...

 business of approximately 1,000 people. It was formed in 2009 when Infineon Technologies

Infineon Technologies

Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer and was founded on April 1, 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the parent company Siemens AG were spun off to form a separate legal entity. , Infineon has 25,149 employees worldwide...

 sold its Wireline Communications Division.

Lantiq's central functions and the executive management team are located adjacent to the Infineon campus in Neubiberg

Neubiberg

Neubiberg is a municipality south-east of Munich, Germany, founded in 1912. It used to have an airport that was used as a Luftwaffe-base in the Third Reich and after the war as an U.S. airbase and in the following years as the German Air Force officer school. Today the largest part of the area is...

 near Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 in Germany but Lantiq has nearly 20 other locations worldwide:

In Europe - Duisburg, Villach, Riga, Luxembourg, Paris, Kista, London, Yakum.

In North America - Bedford, MA and Milpitas, CA.

In Asia Pacific - Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hsinchu, Taipei, Singapore and Bangalore.

Lantiq makes devices for Next Generation Networks and the Digital Home and, via its Infineon heritage, has a over 20 year record of technology development. Its solutions (which comprise of the devices and software) are deployed by major carrier

Common carrier

A common carrier in common-law countries is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and that is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport...

 and found in Access networks and home networks in every region of the world and in 2009 the company shipped more than 200 million mixed signal and digital devices.

Lantiq's SoC

System-on-a-chip

A system on a chip or system on chip is an integrated circuit that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions—all on a single chip substrate...

 (system-on-chip) solutions address a variety of technologies, including all flavours of xDSL, VoIP, wireless LAN

Wireless LAN

A wireless local area network links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method , and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network...

, Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second , as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard. It came into use beginning in 1999, gradually supplanting Fast Ethernet in wired local networks where it performed...

 and GPON. Based on its sales Lantiq claims to be the world's number one supplier of access network integrated circuits. In 2011 Lantiq launched its first home networking chips compliant with the ITU-T G.hn standard

G.hn

G.hn is the common name for a home network technology family of standards developed under the International Telecommunication Union's Standardization arm and promoted by the HomeGrid Forum...

.

Lantiq is a private company, its investor is Golden Gate Capital

Golden Gate Capital Partners

Golden Gate Capital Partners is a private equity firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm makes investments primarily in mature technology companies, as well as other select industries, through leveraged buyout transactions as well as significant minority purchases and growth capital...

, a leading private equity firm. Also T-Venture, the venture capital firm of Deutsche Telekom, made a strategic investment in Lantiq.

Lantiq's CEO is Christian Wolff, CFO is Klaus Gohlke, CTO is Dr Martin Schenk and Dominik Bilo is COO.

External links

Electronics Weekly article http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2009/08/10/46708/infineons-wireline-chip-business-renamed-lantiq.htm
Lantiq's web site http://www.lantiq.com/company/
Infineon press announcement http://www.infineon.com/cms/ww/lantiq/index.html
Lantiq & G.hn http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211820/Lantiq-rolls-G-hn-home-net-chips