Luxtera
| Company type | Subsidiary of Cisco Systems |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Axel Scherer Michael Hochberg Tom Baehr-Jones Eli Yablonovitch |
| Headquarters | Carlsbad, California |
| Products | Blazar |
| Parent | Cisco Systems |
| Website | www |
Luxtera Inc., a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, is a semiconductor company that uses silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-optical systems in a production silicon CMOS process.
The company uses fabless manufacturing; it uses semiconductor fabrication plants of Freescale Semiconductor.
The company received $130 million in funding and was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2019 for $660 million.