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Luxtera CEO To Speak at Inagural Southern California Wireless & Communications Summit
Carlsbad, CA, June 1, 2007 — Luxtera, the world leader in Silicon Photonics, today announced its participation in the Southern California Wireless & Communications Summit. OCTANe Foundation for Innovation (OFI) will host leading semiconductor and communications companies and researchers from across the state to discuss promising technology applications and emerging industry trends on June 5, 2007, at this inaugural event. Alex Dickinson, CEO at Luxtera, will discuss Semiconductors in High-Speed Data Communications during a panel discussion. The day-long event will take place at the Marriott Newport Beach, with doors opening at 7:30 a.m.
“At $250 billion in annual sales, the semiconductor industry dramatically affects the multi-trillion dollar electronics industry,” said Gary Augusta, executive director, OCTANe Foundation for Innovation. “We organized this summit to give visibility to the innovations being developed by companies and researchers in Southern California. This area — Orange County in particular — is a hot spot for wireless communications, data network communications, the digital home and other emerging semiconductor technologies.”
Dr. Henry Samueli, the co-founder, CTO and chairman of Broadcom Corp., will deliver the evening keynote address while Dr. Hans Stork, CTO of Texas Instruments, will present the lunch keynote. These noted researchers and industry executives will give their perspectives on “the state of the chip” market.
“From the technical and business perspectives, Drs. Samueli and Stork offer astounding depth of knowledge in semiconductors and communications, and are working on innovative projects at two of the industry’s most prominent companies,” Augusta said.
“I’m very much looking forward to the event and I am excited to be among such a distinguished group of industry professionals,” said Dickinson. “As Luxtera has made some recent announcements on its disruptive technology, I plan to discuss our role in the future of high-speed data communications and the overall impact our technology has on the industry.”
At the summit, innovations in venture capital, high-speed communications, wireless and portable devices and the digital home will be discussed. Concurrent OCTANe LaunchPad sessions will provide the opportunity for emerging ventures to present their business plans and receive live feedback from industry experts.
To register for the event, visit www.octaneoc.org or contact OCTANe at 949-330-6564.
About Luxtera:
Luxtera, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company and the world leader in silicon photonics. Luxtera will fulfill the world’s insatiable demand for bandwidth by uniting the high performance of fiber-optic communications with the low-cost and high-volume manufacturing advantages of mainstream silicon CMOS fabrication. The company was founded in 2001 by a team of industry-renowned researchers and technology managers drawn from the communication and semiconductors industries. Luxtera is funded by leading venture capitalists: Sevin Rosen Funds, August Capital and New Enterprise Associates. Luxtera will ship its first commercial products based on its CMOS photonics technology in 2007. Luxtera is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.
About the OCTANe Foundation for Innovation:
The OCTANe Foundation for Innovation (OFI) is a public charity with a mission to develop a robust environment for biomedical and information technology growth and development. We achieve this through focused education, skills development and mentoring. The OFI is a supporting organizing to OCTANe, a non-profit corporation comprised of information and biomedical technology business executives, venture capitalists, service providers, private investors and leaders from UC Irvine as well as other universities, all working together to drive innovation in Orange County and surrounding regions. Visit www.octaneoc.org
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