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Luminar Technologies manufactures LiDAR sensors for passenger cars, commercial trucks, and robotaxis as well as safety and driving assist tools. Its key product offerings include a LiDAR sensor solutions “Iris” and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28711">“Halo,” </a>and a full-stack autonomous software system for vehicles “Sentinel.”&nbsp;Iris, launched in 2019, is a long-range detection LiDAR sensor that can detect dark objects at night up to 250 meters away and a field of view (FoV) of 120 x 28 degrees. Iris uses longer waves of laser light of 1,550 nanometers compared to the typical 905nm length and is suitable for high-volume manufacturability (10,000 to 1 million+ vehicles). Luminar began commercial volume production of Iris <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14217">in Q3 2022. </a>The company launched an improved version dubbed <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16758">“Iris+'' </a>in March 2023, with a detection range of 300 meters. Its Halo LiDAR sensor is a compact, low-cost LiDAR solution pitched toward vehicles, including low-cost cars.Sentinel, unveiled in March 2021, is a full-stack autonomous software system for series production vehicles that offers proactive collision avoidance warnings and highway autonomy (on beta as of December 2023). Sentinel is powered by Luminar’s lidar technology, proprietary perception software, HD mapping technology, and control and planning software. The company also unveiled an automatic emergency steering (AES) feature integrated with its Iris Plus sensor <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25360">in January 2024. </a>The solution can spot potential obstacles, with a range reaching up to 300 m under suitable conditions, and initiate driving strategies. As of January 2024, Luminar Technologies had 210 patents issued and pending.&nbsp;The company has manufacturing facilities in Florida, California, Colorado, and Mexico.Luminar has acquired several companies including chip design and component suppliers Black Forest Engineering (2018) and OptoGration (July 2021), high-performance laser manufacturer Freedom Photonics (March 2022), HD mapping and localization technology company Civil Maps <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15795">(Q2 2022), </a>and the lidar division of data storage company Seagate (March 2023).<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29109">In May 2024, </a>Luminar Technologies laid off 20% of its workforce (about 140 employees) as part of a restructuring strategy to adopt an "asset-light" business model and boost production. The company also planned to sub-lease certain facilities to reduce its global footprint.Luminar generated revenue of USD 69.8 million and incurred an operating loss of USD 563.3 million during the year ended December 2023.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of November 2024, the company had 50+ commercial customers including Tesla,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28711">Volvo,</a> Daimler and its subsidiary Torc Robotics, Pony.ai, Intel's Mobileye, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23722">Polestar,</a> SIAC, and Kodiak Robotics.The company has manufacturing partnerships with electronic companies Celestica and Fabrinet (May 2021) and Zenseact, a unit of Volvo cars (March 2021). It also works with TPK, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of electrical components, to build and operate a high-volume LiDAR factory in China (announced in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17749">April 2023). </a>The company partnered with Applied Intuition <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28711">in April 2024, </a>to develop sensor simulator-validated LiDAR models.

Luminar is a software company that specializes in safety and autonomous technology for vehicles. They provide advanced driver assistance systems that offer detection services for both low and high-speed scenarios. Their software is designed for commercial trucks, focusing on enhancing safety.

e-Share Trusted Sharing lets you collaborate with external parties using your cloud-based collaboration applications without giving up control. Recipients receive a SmartURL that permits access only as allowed by policy. You can restrict downloading, set an expiration, add a watermark, require agreement to terms - and more. You can also brand the experience, including sub-domain, to re-assure recipients that it's safe to share sensitive content with you. Users can even edit online using GSuite and Office 365. The e-Share Bot can be used from within Microsoft Teams to compliantly share conversations and attachments with important external partners. e-Share Secure Mail is the first enterprise-class product that allows you to share sensitive information in a fully compliant way without new client softwareor plug-ins. Users trigger secure messaging by adding a keyword to the subject line or selecting a sharing policy. Our next-generation gateway routes everything through any existing mail service, so it's easily verified by recipient spam filters and security gateways using SPF and DKIM signatures. All content is protected at rest and in motion using our patented, state-of-the-art key management and military grade encryption. It's the first secure email system that senders, recipients and administrators will all love to use. 100% cloud based.  Visit www.e-share.us to learn more. We call it ‘Collaboration that Secures Itself’.

Tilera Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company, designs multicore embedded processors for networking, digital multimedia, and wireless infrastructure markets. The company offers multicore processors for processing and power requirements, multicore software development tools, and boards. Its products include TILEPro, a multicore processor, which delivers the performance computing for embedded applications, such as networking, wireless infrastructure, and digital multimedia processing; multicore development environment, a multicore programming solution; and TILExpress PCIe production cards.   Tilera Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in San Jose, California. It has locations in Westborough, Massachusetts and Beijing, China.

Wisair is a fabless semiconductor company providing single-chip based Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB solutions for personal computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices.

BroadLight leads delivery of end-to-end (E2E) Passive Optical Network (PON) technology through its comprehensive and innovative product solutions consisting of highly integrated semiconductor devices, embedded and application software, reference designs and support tools.  Their company is delivering complete E2E BPON and GPON component solutions for the central office (CO) and customer premise equipment (CPE). These solutions help equipment companies bring standards-based PON products quickly to service providers and with low risk.  BroadLight has been supplying the PON industry with components longer than any other company and is the most experienced in turning up BPON and GPON. As one of the pioneers in GPON, BroadLight's ground-breaking first to market product line is now delivering the majority of today's GPON solutions worldwide.

M-Stream develops chips for improved reception of voice, video, music and heavy multimedia for second, 2.5, and third-generation cellular communication systems. The start-up raised $1.5 million in its first round of financing in March 2003, at which time it also signed its first agreement with Broadcom. Aside from the $750,000 injection, the deal included an option to buy the company depending on its reaching certain goals.

Morphics Technology, Inc. is a communications systems company that supplies Wireless Signal Processors (WSPs) as off-the-shelf ICs for basestations and Intellectual Property (IP) Cores for handset and terminals products. Morphics combines expertise in communications theory, digital signal processing, computer architecture, and silicon engineering to cost-effectively deliver the highest levels of signal processing performance, as well as flexibility and scalability, for next generation wireless networks. For the wireless infrastructure market, Morphics supplies efficient off-the-shelf wireless signal processors (WSPs). Morphics’ WSPs address the cost-reduction needs of 3G basestation manufacturers by providing scalable baseband processing with industry-leading channel density. Such programmable WSPs enable equipment vendors to build in proprietary radio-link and network performance differentiation as well as to implement any of the leading 3G wireless standards.

InnovICs Wireless  is focused on providing advanced baseband signal processing solutions to the emerging 2.5G and 3G cellular markets. The company supplies integrated circuits and licenses semiconductor intellectual property cores that deliver unprecedented improvements in data transmission to the wireless handset.

Radiata is a developer of high-speed wireless networking products for the home, small office or home office, enterprise and public area environments. Radiata is a privately held company with corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. There are research and development facilities based in Sydney, Australia. Radiata, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

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<div> Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO) designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom reported revenue of USD 35.8 billion for the year ending 2023. Broadcom's business is divided into two main segments: Semiconductor Solutions and Infrastructure Software. The Semiconductor Solutions segment includes products for wired and wireless communications, enterprise storage, and industrial markets. This segment develops and supplies products like set-top box system-on-chips, cable modems, Ethernet switching chips, and wireless local area network access point chips. The Infrastructure Software segment provides enterprise software solutions for virtualization, security, and IT management. This segment was significantly expanded with Broadcom's <a href="https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-completes-acquisition-vmware"> acquisition </a> of VMware in 2023. The Asia Pacific region was Broadcom&rsquo;s largest market (~67% of total revenue in FY2023), followed by the Americas (~23%) and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (~10%). Broadcom has provided revenue guidance of USD 50 billion for FY2024&mdash;a sharp increase from FY2023&mdash;primarily due to the acquisition of VMware.&nbsp; </div>

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 Apple and semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom are reputedly collaborating to develop Apple's first server chip, codenamed "Baltra", catering for AI applications.
 The focus of this partnership is to design networking technology for the chip, allowing it to connect with AI processing. This chip intends to underpin cloud-based AI features such as Siri and Maps, in addition to future GenAI capabilities. The aim is to finalize the chip design within a period of 12 months.
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 Broadcom's potential deal with Apple could be a significant revenue boost. The semiconductor firm <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/companies/13109#overview-popup"> specializes </a> in chips for data center, service provider, and enterprise networking applications. The news follows rumors of a <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/35381"> partnership </a> with OpenAI to develop custom AI chips, aimed at reducing costs and improving access to AI server hardware.

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