[0] Primarion Secures $38M Second Round Funding Led by Accel Partners; Proceeds to Fund Continued Development of Technology and Products for Growing Signal Integrity Crisis in Communications.Business Editors TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2000 Primarion, Inc., an entrepreneurial venture focused on high-performance broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). datacomm solutions, today announced the closing of its second round of equity investment, totaling over $38M. The company delivers technology and products to combat a growing data signal integrity crisis and to deliver maximized bandwidth for Internet infrastructure original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Primarion's technology reduces processor and system noise and increases overall performance, eliminating bottlenecks in computing computing - computer and communications processors and systems including servers, routers and hubs. This round of funding was led by Accel Partners, one of the nation's leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] in high bandwidth communications. Also participating in this round of funding are previous investors: APV APV See: Adjusted Present Value Technology Partners of Menlo Park Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif., Intel Capital, Koch Ventures, Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz. and ON Semiconductor of Phoenix. "Accel is a firm with a track record for investing in key communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. , and its sizable siz·a·ble also size·a·ble adj. Of considerable size; fairly large. siz  a·ble·ness n. investment in Primarion speaks volumes about the potential of our company and our technology," said Daniel Clarke, Primarion founder and president. "Primarion power and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output technologies will help future generations of processors realize their full performance potential. This funding by Accel and our other investors will help us to realize our vision of enabling our customers to bring maximum bandwidth devices and systems to market." Primarion, founded in January 2000, focuses its bandwidth-enabling technology on a growing signal integrity crisis plaguing leading high-speed semiconductor companies. "Primarion is solving problems facing a number of firms producing high-performance products," said Jim Flach, partner at Accel Partners. "They have technology to increase performance in the communications and networking markets." As predicted by "Moore's Law "The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months." By Intel co-founder Gordon Moore regarding the pace of semiconductor technology. He made this famous comment in 1965 when there were approximately 60 devices on a chip. ," processor performance has been doubling every 18 months. However, engineers designing the resultant This article is about the resultant of polynomials. For the result of adding two or more vectors, see Parallelogram rule. For the technique in organ building, see Resultant (organ). In mathematics, the resultant of two monic polynomials high-performance products are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain signal integrity given this harried pace. This is increasingly demonstrated in the semiconductor industry by slipping release dates, lower than anticipated performance increases in next-generation products and, in the worst case, product recalls. Primarion technology is designed to resolve these critical issues. About Accel Partners: Founded in 1983, Accel Partners has a history of excellence and innovation in the venture capital business. The firm is dedicated to partnering with outstanding management teams to build world-class Internet and communications companies. With over $3 billion under management, Accel Partners has a long legacy of helping entrepreneurs build highly successful companies. Accel portfolio companies have completed IPOs that have created well over $100 billion in market capitalization Market Capitalization A measure of a public company's size. Market capitalization is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares. It's calculated by multiplying the number of shares times the current market price. This term is often referred to as market cap. . For more information, visit the Accel Partners web site at http://www.accel.com/. About Primarion: Primarion is a Tempe start-up venture focused on bringing broadband solutions to datacomm applications, delivering leading signal integrity and communications solutions that increase bandwidth for the data-hungry Internet infrastructure. Primarion's technology addresses a growing `signal integrity crisis' occurring in the world of ultra deep sub-micron processors. With founders and executives combining over 200 years of industry experience and a combination of deep sub-micron digital processor and high-speed analog and SiGe design experience, Primarion is rapidly becoming the leading performance solution provider for the Internet infrastructure. Primarion also has a Design Center in Torrance, Calif. Primarion can be reached at 602/454-7205, and http://www.primarion.com/. Email: marketing@primarion.com. Note to Editors: Primarion is a trademark of Primarion, Inc. |
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