Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd Licenses OmniPHY's Fast Ethernet Technology

Ethernet PHY technology leader licenses Fast Ethernet PHY IP

San Jose, California – May 22, 2017 – OmniPHY, Inc., a leading supplier of Ethernet PHY silicon intellectual property (IP) for the consumer, automotive, and industrial markets today announced that it has licensed Fast Ethernet technology to Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd where it is being applied to very advanced connectivity challenges. The technology includes a 10/100 Fast Ethernet PHY with EEE compliance.

OmniPHY provides Ethernet PHY technology under an IP licensing model. As such it can enable unique and differentiated solutions, cost-reduction, and integration. Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd is an innovative development company designing CPUs, GPUs and Chipsets, and providing SOC solutions for related fields and applications. The OmniPhy IP especially emphasizes unique power saving and reliability diagnostic modes which are critical to support integration with modern SOC’s. OmniPhy’s approach allows proliferation and integration of qualified Ethernet PHY technology directly into the televions, set-top-boxes, and a variety of video-rich IC’s. Additionally, OmniPHY is active in the Automotive and Industrial eco-systems with off-the-shelf solutions for in-vehicle-neworking (IVN) and full industrial IoT connectivity solutions.

Ritesh Saraf, CEO of OmniPhy commented, “by leveraging OmniPHY, customers like Zhaoxin are able to create their own Ethernet PHY ASIC’s and SOC’s and can realize their own differentiated connectivity solutions. We are extremely happy to work with well-established, pioneering, and visionary companies like Zhaoxin” Michael Shiuan, Senior Vice President of Zhaoxin noted “high-bandwidth Ethernet communication is critical to our applications and customers. We are delighted to license this technology from OmniPHY, integrated to our ARM-based SOC and get to the embedded system market effectively.”

About OmniPhy

Omniphy is a Mixed-signal Semiconductor IP company based in San Jose, California, with satellite offices across the world. The company specializes in intellectual property and develops high-performance Ethernet PHY’s and SerDes interfaces for the Automotive, Industrial, Consumer, and Networking markets. For more information visit http://omniphysemi.com or contact sales@omniphysemi.com.

About Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd is a leading domestic IC design house, where headquartered in Shanghai, with R&D centers and branch offices in China and USA. The company specializes in the core technologies and intellectual properties of CPU, GPU, and Chipsets. The key goal of the company is to design and provide solutions for related fields and applications featuring its core technologies. For more information, visit http://www.zhaoxin.com.