Aquantia Corporation

Aquantia Corporation is a manufacturer of high-speed transceivers; in mid-2014 it held 70% of the market for transceivers for 10 Gigabit Ethernet over copper wire. It is also involved in the NBASE-T effort to produce intermediate-speed (2.5Gbit/s and 5Gbit/s) ethernet-over-Cat5e solutions, targeting the remote radio head and wifi markets.

Initially their speciality was in using an elaborate analogue front-end to allow the digitisation stage to be done with a lower specification ADC, allowing lower power consumption in a given process - their 90 nm ICs were competitive with 65 nm chips from other manufacturers.

It is a privately held company which had raised $178.9 million over eight rounds of funding as of mid-2015; it won Company of the Year at the 2014 Annual Creativity in Electronics awards, and was ranked by Deloitte Technology as the fastest-growing semiconductor company in North America in 2014