{{Advert|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox company | name = Aquantia Corporation | logo = Aquantia Corporation.jpg | type = Public | fate = Acquired by Marvell Technology Group, brand was phased out | traded_as = {{NYSE was|AQ}}<br>Russell 2000 Component | industry = High-speed transceivers | founded = {{Start date and age|2004}} | founders = Ramin Farjadrad, Ramin Shirani, Phil Delansay, Bill Woodruff | defunct = {{End date and age|2019|09|19}} | owner = Marvell Technology, Inc. | location = San Jose, California | website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20190901124939/https://www.aquantia.com/}} }} '''Aquantia Corporation''' was a manufacturer of high-speed transceivers. In 2004, Aquantia Corporation was founded and first made products for Data Center connectivity, and in 2013 announced the world's first integrated 10GBASE-T MAC/PHY for servers.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2013-11-05 |title=Aquantia Solidifies Market Leadership With World's First 28nm 10GBASE-T PHY |publisher=design-reuse.com |url=https://www.design-reuse.com/news/33235/28nm-10gbase-t-phy.html}}</ref> In 2014, Aquantia founded the NBASE-T Alliance together with Cisco, Xilinx and Freescale. In the same year they introduced a technology that delivered a boost to Ethernet throughput and was aimed to help with an expected increase in mobile broadband traffic.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2014-10-28 |title=Industry Leaders Form NBASE-T Alliance to Promote Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Technology for Enterprise Wired and Wireless Access Networks |publisher=businesswire.com |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141028005281/en/Industry-Leaders-Form-NBASE-T-Alliance-to-Promote-Multi-Gigabit-Ethernet-Technology-for-Enterprise-Wired-and-Wireless-Access-Networks}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2014-10-06 |title=Aquantia Unveils Game-Changing Enterprise Technology to Break Mobile Infrastructure Bottleneck |publisher=design-reuse.com |url=https://www.design-reuse.com/news/35610/aquantia-aqrate-phy-28nm.html}}</ref> The NBASE-T Alliance promoted the 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T standard, which was ratified as the 802.3bz standard by the IEEE in 2016. The standard enabled Cat5e cables to carry 2.5 Gb of data per second and Cat6 cables to carry 5 Gbps.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2016-10-03 |title=NBASE-T Alliance Receives Boost with IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet |publisher=anandtech.com |url=https://www.anandtech.com/show/10720/nbaset-receives-boost-with-ieee-p8023bz-approval|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161004160526/http://www.anandtech.com/show/10720/nbaset-receives-boost-with-ieee-p8023bz-approval|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 4, 2016}}</ref> In 2016, Aquantia announced a technology that made it possible to achieve up to 100Gbps over a copper cable.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-09-13 |date=2016-10-25 |title=100G technology could revolutionise data centres |publisher=electronicspecifier.com |url=https://www.electronicspecifier.com/products/5g/100g-technology-could-revolutionise-data-centres}}</ref>
It won Company of the Year at the 2014 annual Creativity in Electronics awards,<ref name="cotyaward">{{cite web | url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/aquantia-wins-company-of-the-year-ee-times-and-edn-2014-ace-award-2014-04-02 |title=Aquantia wins Company of the Year EETimes and EDN 2014 ACE award |date=2014-04-02}}</ref> and was ranked by Deloitte Fast 500 as the fastest-growing semiconductor company in North America in 2014,<ref name="fastest">{{cite press release |url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141113006234/en/Aquantia-Ranks-Fastest-Growing-Semiconductor-Company-North |title=Aquantia Ranks as Fastest Growing Semiconductor Company in North America on Deloitte's 2014 Technology Fast 500|date=13 November 2014 }}</ref> 2015 and 2016. In 2016, Aquantia was named a finalist in UBM Tech’s EE Times and EDN Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards for “Company of the Year".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1330812|title=2016 ACE Awards Finalists Announced |publisher= EE Times|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>
The company was acquired by Marvell Technology Group on September 19, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marvell.com/company/news/pressDetail.do?releaseID=11257|title=Marvell Completes Acquisition of Aquantia|access-date=2019-09-27}}</ref> The Aquantia brand was since phased out and replaced with Marvell brand. Aquantia's website was, for short time, redirecting to Marvell's website, but then it was shut down completely.
==Acquisitions== Aquantia acquired the 10GBASE-T assets of PLX Technology in September 2012.<ref name=PLXacquire>{{cite web |url=http://www.aquantia.com/news-and-media/press-releases/detail/3556/aquantia-acquires-10gbase-t-assets-from-plx-technology |title=Aquantia acquires 10GBASE-T assets from PLX Technology |access-date=2015-05-28}}</ref> PLX had picked them up in September 2010 from Teranetics.<ref name=plx-buys-teranetics>{{cite web |url=http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1257444 |title=PLX acquires Teranetics in $36M deal |author=Rick Merrit |date=2010-09-24}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{official|https://web.archive.org/web/20190901124939/https://www.aquantia.com/}} (archived)
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