Dr. Joy Laskar and Lloyd Solomon. Joy Laskar is a faculty chair at Georgia Tech, which has developed and turns out probably one of the highest numbers of signal processing and radio frequency engineers in the country. The company roots are in solving complex channel characteristic problems in the optical area for the first couple of years, and, as we all know, that market took its own turn.
TWST: And not for the better.
Dr. Laskar and looked at what Quellan was doing, albeit it in a
different market. The technology I believe was directly applicable to
the problem of really improving the speed and reach product of the
interconnect technology that connects networking gear together, and the
channel characteristics in almost all kinds of communications in the
high-speed gigahertz arena. So we coupled the two together. In April we
announced that I was coming onboard. We raised $3 million, a substantial
amount of which (we haven't disclosed how much) came from National
Semiconductor Corp., which is a publicly traded semiconductor company
and a leader in this space, and then we went underground. So we are six
months later. We've developed our first product and we demonstrated it
at the IMAPs conference, which is the International Microelectronics and
Packaging Symposium, in Palo Alto. The reason we were there is that our
electronic chips solve a lot of the problems that the mechanical
infrastructure or the plumbing, if you will, in the infrastructure
impose as you try to make it run faster and faster, and, to be more
specific, as you increase its speed by 6 times, from 1 billion bits per
second to 6 billion bits per second across the plumbing system that
connects it together.
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