Retimers have been around since the 60s, when they were first used to help boost voice circuits over long distances. Advanced for their time, they did much the same as high-speed retimers do now – equalization, clock-data recovery, line coding, and framing. These days they do pretty much the same…
Presenting Kandou's vision and innovative high-performance, low-power chip communications solutions in one-on-one meetings with institutional investors during the JP Morgan Tech Stars conference.
Microchips have been around since the late 1950s, and have been a byword for cutting edge technology ever since. But it seems that the era of the monolith do-it-all chip is coming to an end, and the age of the chiplet has arrived.