Semtech Announces Availability of Reduced Channel Pitch FiberEdge® Linear Transimpedance Amplifier for 400G and 800G Data Center Applications

Feature-rich chip delivers exceptional performance with 500μm pitch for QSFP-DD, OSFP and Chip on Board applications

CAMARILLO, Calif., March 8, 2022 – Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today announced the immediate sampling availability of GN1814, a new addition to the FiberEdge® portfolio of PAM4 transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs), to enable next-generation data center single-mode connectivity.

“As higher density optical transceivers start to deploy in the data center market, Semtech has addressed the requirement to reduce optical chip footprint by developing quad TIAs at lower channel pitch,” said Nicola Bramante, senior product line manager for Semtech’s Signal Integrity Products Group. “The availability of FiberEdge GN1814 represents a major step forward for the deployment of next generation 100G/lane high density optical transceivers such as QSFP-DD and OSFP.”

The FiberEdge GN1814 is a feature-rich quad 500μm-pitch low power, low noise, high gain, high bandwidth TIA that delivers wide overload performance and low group delay variation, making it ideal for 400GBASE-DR4, FR4, LR4 and 800GBASE-DR8 PAM4 optical transceivers, Chip on Board (COB) optical assemblies, and silicon photonics (SiPh). The GN1814 is sampling now as wire-bondable bare die.

Semtech’s FiberEdge TIA portfolio includes:

• GN1089: Single Channel 56GBd PAM4 Linear TIA
• GN1089SC2: Single Channel 28GBd PAM4 Linear TIA
• GN1800: Second Generation Single Channel 56GBd PAM4 Linear TIA
• GN1800SC2: Second Generation Single Channel 28GBd PAM4 Linear TIA
• GN1700: 50Gbps PAM Linear TIA for 5G Wireless
• GN1810: Quad 56GBd PAM4 Linear TIA
• GN1812: Second Generation Quad 56GBd PAM4 Linear TIA
• GN1814: 500μm Pitch Quad 56GBd PAM4 Linear TIA

About Semtech’s Signal Integrity/Optical Products

Semtech’s optical networking product platforms provide high-performance signal integrity for optical module solutions used by leading companies in the data center/enterprise networking, wireless infrastructure and passive optical network/Fiber to the X markets. For more information, visit www.semtech.com/optical.

About Semtech

Semtech Corporation is a leading global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for infrastructure, high-end consumer and industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The Company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.

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