Inphi Corporation Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

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About Inphi Corporation

Inphi Corporation operates as a fabless provider of analog semiconductor solutions for the communications and computing markets.

The company’s analog semiconductor solutions provide signal integrity at data speeds. Its solutions provide an interface between analog signals and digital information in high-performance systems, such as telecommunications transport systems, enterprise networking equipment, datacenters and enterprise servers, storage platforms, test and measurement equipment, and military systems.

Products

As of December 31, 2009, the company had approximately 170 products across 17 product lines, including products that perform a range of functions, such as amplifying, encoding, multiplexing, demultiplexing, retiming and buffering data and clock signals at speeds of approximately 100 Gbps. These products are key enablers for servers, routers, switches, storage and other equipment that process, store and transport data traffic. Its products are also used in test and measurement equipment and military radar systems that capture and process high-speed and ultra broadband signals.

Clock and Data Recovery (CDR): It recovers the clock from high-speed signals; used to retime the signal prior to re-transmitting to ensure the highest signal integrity.

Clock fanout: It provides replication and buffering of high-speed clock signals.

Demultiplexer (DEMUX): It de-serializes a high-speed data stream to multiple lower speed data streams for further signal processing.

D Flip Flops: It retimes the input signal to deliver optimal signal integrity.

Differential Amplifiers: It amplifies differential signals and drives high-speed analog-to-digital converters.

Differential Encoders: It provides differential encoding function for Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) transmission.

Isolation Memory Buffer (iMB): It provides critical high-speed interface between CPU and memory.

Latched Comparator: It is used as a high-speed 1-bit analog-to-digital converter.

Logic Gates: It is a standard AND, OR, XOR logic gates used as general-purpose building blocks for high-speed data processing.

Modulator Driver: It amplifies a small signal to 8V (or higher) output voltage in order to drive optical modulators for very long distance data transmission.

Multiplexer (MUX): It serializes multiple data streams to a high-speed data stream prior to transmission.

Phase-Lock Loop (PLL): It provides critical high-speed interface between CPU and memory.

Prescalers: It divides the high frequency clock to a lower frequency clock.

Register Buffers: It regenerates a CPU’s command and address signals.

RZ Converter: It converts a Non-Return-to-Zero (NRZ) digital bit stream to Return-to-Zero (RZ) format.

Serializer-Deserializer (SERDES): It combines a serializer, deserializer, equalizer and CDR functions on one chip.

Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA): It amplifies small currents generated by a photodetector for further signal processing.

Sales

The company operates direct sales offices in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.

Customers

The company’s products are designed into systems sold by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including Agilent Technologies, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Inc, Danaher Corporation, Dell Inc., EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., International Business Machines Corporation, and Oracle Corporation. Its major customers include Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Micron Technology, Inc. It sells both directly to these OEMs and to other intermediary systems or module manufacturers that, in turn, sell to these OEMs. During 2009, it sold its products to approximately 160 customers. It works with AMD and Intel Corporation to design architectures and products that solve bandwidth bottlenecks in existing and next generation communications and computing systems.

Suppliers

The company’s principal foundries are Global Communications Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS), Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations Inc., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC), TowerJazz Semiconductor Ltd., and United Monolithic Semiconductors S.A.S. (UMS). It also uses third-party contract manufacturers for a significant majority of its assembly and test operations, including Kyocera Corporation, Natel Engineering Co., Inc., Orient Semiconductor Electronics Ltd., Signetics Korea Co., Ltd., and STATS ChipPAC Ltd.

Competition

The company’s primary competitors include Broadcom Corporation, Hittite Microwave Corporation, Integrated Device Technology, Inc., and Texas Instruments.

History

Inphi Corporation was incorporated in 2000.