Gennum | X-ON

Gennum Corporation was acquired by Semtech Canada Inc. Gennum Corporation designs, develops, and markets semiconductor products and intellectual property cores for consumer connectivity, enterprise, video broadcast, and data communications applications worldwide. It offers analog multiplexers, single chip HD embedded audio CODEC, serial digital video transmitter for standard and high definition component video, visually lossless CODEC, PCI express to local bus bridge, cable drivers, clock and data recovery, crosspoint switches, equalizers, and HD-SD only serializer and deserializer (SerDes) products. The company also provides laser modulator drivers, legacy products, limiting amplifiers, receiver optical sub-assemblies, re-drivers, receivers, reclockers, SerDes, sync separators, Thunderbolt cable transceivers, timing, transimpedance amplifiers, transmitters, and video optical module products. It offers products for various applications, including security and surveillance, business and industrial, broadcast video, networking, storage and computing, consumer cables, optical networking, and professional grade camcorders for broadcast video capture. The company was formerly known as Linear Technology, Inc. and changed its name to Gennum Corporation in December 1990. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Burlington, Canada.