Athena Semiconductors, a start-up based in Fremont, California, raised $10 million in series B funding for its single-chip CMOS radio transceiver IC products. Samsung Electronics led the current round and Needham Capital also joined the round. Several existing investors, including Alliance Ventures, participated in the round as well. The new funding brings the total amount raised to date to $20 millionhttp://www.athenasemi.com
Athena Raises $10 Million for Single Chip CMOS Radios
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You just read about CMOS. Here is what it replaced:
ECL / bipolar mainframe logic served 1960–1990. What ultimately replaced it?
ECL / bipolar mainframe logic emitter-coupled logic switched non-saturating bipolar transistors for raw speed, at the cost of running hot and power-hungry - used where speed beat all else (mainframes, Cray supercomputers). Its job passed to CMOS — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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