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Portfolio
Materials and Components
Telecom Hardware
Telecom Software
Enterprise Software
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New materials represent a promising, dynamic area of our portfolio. We look for companies developing technologies that offer higher power output, superior integration, and efficiency and lower costs for carriers. Our strong portfolio of telecom hardware companies, combined with our connections to France Telecom R&D and other prestigious European labs, enables us to provide significant support for start-ups in this sector.

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CyOptics, U.S.
CyOptics is a leading developer of 10 and 40Gbps active
optical components. Based on Indium Phosphide, CyOptics‘
compact and integrated components are suitable for
high-volume, low-cost manufacturing, effecively reducing
the size and cost of next-generation optical networks.
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Defacto, France
DeFacTo is an innovative chip design software company
developing breakthrough technology to dramatically enhance
the design for test (DFT) process and increase the testability of
integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs). The
company’s mission is to enable designers to plan, analyze, and
implement IC test logic before synthesis, by delivering a high
quality suite of tools working at the RT level, covering all DFT
needs. The company, founded in August 2003, is headquartered
in Valence, France, with offices in Grenoble and Palo Alto, Calif.,
USA.
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Heptagon, Finland
Heptagon is a privately held Swiss-Finnish manufacturer of
diffractive and refractive micro-optical products. Heptagon's
components are used in optical communication equipment,
miniature displays, and a number of optical sensors, to single
out only the most important customer segments.
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IFOTEC, France
IFOTEC designs and manufactures fiberoptic transmission
equipment for a variety of applications. The company was
established in late 1998, as a spin-off from Radiall,
supported by ten years of experience in optoelectronics
engineering.
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Innova Card, France
Innova Card is a fabless semiconductor company that designs
and supplies secure solutions for trusted smart card terminals.
Innova Card provides hardware and software solutions, EMV and
FINREAD compatible, based on USIP Professional IC (Universal
Secure Integrated Platform), the most secure and the most
integrated platform for smart card terminals.
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InPACT, France
A spinoff from Saint-Gobain, InPACT specializes in
manufacturing Indium Phosphide (InP) wafers, a
semiconductor material mainly used in fiber optic
telecommunications network components production (laser
diodes, photodetectors, switches, amplifiers, etc.).
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iRoC, U.S.
iRoC Technologies is the leading company bringing self-
correcting intelligence to integrated circuits, protecting
them from errors caused by external disruptions and
internal defections.
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Kimotion, Switzerland
Kimotin provides front-to-back analog design software,
including modeling, sizing, and layout tools, that address high-
complexity analog functional blocks. The software helps circuit
designers quickly produce a layout for complex designs
containing thousands of transistors without compromising
design performance.
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Magwel, Belgique
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Nanoradio AB, Sweden
Nanoradio AB is a fabless semiconductor company in the design
and marketing of ultra-low power WIFI wireless components and
systems for the wireless handheld industry.
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NOVASiC, France
NOVASiC specializes in manufacturing silicon carbide
wafers, a semiconductor material used in
telecommunications and microelectronics. The properties
of SiC make it an excellent material for high-power,
high-temperature, high-frequency applications.
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12 February 2010
Nanoradio achieves WAPI certification for NRX710 with a world leading performance
10 February 2010
Heptagon Shipping 100 Millionth CMOS Imager Lens
08 October 2008
Glintt's PCI PED encrypted Pin pad is powered by USIP® and runs Linux
25 September 2008
Nanoradio WiFi solution is inside the world's first 3G UMA mobile
02 May 2007
INNOVA CARD : USIP® and TRANGO ALLIANCE :The first PCI-PED ready single-core solution that eases non-secure open os integration
07 November 2006
Innovacard : UIC-Group receives PCI PED security approval for its USIP® powered EPP790
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