Inphi Acquires Resources from Arrive Technologies to Expand Design Resource Infrastructure

Complementary Engineering Team to Target New Product Opportunities

/EIN News/ -- SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI), a leader in high-speed data movement interconnects, today announced that it has acquired certain assets from Arrive Technologies, located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The addition of these resources will provide Inphi with front-end design, verification, validation and firmware skills that complement Inphi’s existing design teams in Singapore and Vietnam. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“Resource allocation for new projects is an industry challenge. With the acquisition of resources from Arrive, we are now able to dedicate a world-class engineering team to projects targeting our cloud and telecom customers,” said Ford Tamer, President and CEO of Inphi Corporation. “We welcome the team from Arrive to the Inphi family and are excited to advance our shared commitments in driving successful customer engagement, industry-leading innovation and best of class execution.”

Arrive Technologies, founded in 2001, has 112 employees primarily located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.  The team from Arrive has strong design capabilities in embedded software, digital ASIC, post silicon validation and FPGA emulation. The team has designed highly complex transport framers and products including pseudowire and circuit emulation functions with domain expertise including, but not limited to, OTN/SONET, FEC, PTP, and Security (IPsec). Arrive had been engaged with many of Inphi’s system OEM customers in the cloud, telecom and 5G markets.  The team’s front-end design and firmware capabilities complement Inphi’s skill sets in South East Asia, with our analog and optical design teams, and analog layout teams in Singapore, our existing digital backend team in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and our operations center in Penang, Malaysia.

Forward-Looking Statements
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About Inphi

Inphi Corporation is a leader in high-speed data movement.  We move big data -- fast, throughout the globe, between data centers, and inside data centers.  Inphi's expertise in signal integrity results in reliable data delivery, at high speeds, over a variety of distances.  As data volumes ramp exponentially due to video streaming, social media, cloud-based services, and wireless infrastructure, the need for speed has never been greater.  That's where we come in. Customers rely on Inphi's solutions to develop and build out the Service Provider and Cloud infrastructures, and data centers of tomorrow.  To learn more about Inphi, visit www.inphi.com.

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