Telefónica Invests In Semiconductor Solutions Company Quantenna

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Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

Monday, November 7th, 2011
quantenna

Semiconductor chip maker Quantenna Communications has a new strategic investor on board, and her name is Telefónica.

Through its investment arm Telefónica Ventures, a division of Telefónica Digital, the Spanish broadband and telecom company has made an equity investment to gain access to the latest Quantenna technology for the deployment of video services to the home.

Read more at TechCrunch Europe.


Website: quantenna.com
Launch Date: 2006
Funding: $145M

Quantenna Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, develops silicon for wireless high definition video home networking that delivers wireless bandwidth in North America. Its products include Quantenna High Speed (QHS) 1000, an integrated chipset solution; QHS600 and QHS450, the integrated single chip solutions; Quantenna OS, an access point operating software that runs on the Quantenna family of products, as well as enables equipment vendors to port their software features on to Quantenna chipsets; and QHS Plug, an access point...

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