Luxtera

Luxtera Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary of Cisco Systems
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded2001 (2001)
FounderAxel Scherer
Michael Hochberg
Tom Baehr-Jones
Eli Yablonovitch
HeadquartersCarlsbad, California
ProductsBlazar
ParentCisco Systems
Websitewww.luxtera.com

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.