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Aquantia Corporation

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Aquantia Corporation was a manufacturer of high-speed transceivers. In 2004, Aquantia Corporation was founded and first made products for Data Center connectivity. In 2008, it shipped the first monolithic 10GBASE-T PHY silicon at 5W — under half the power of incumbent solutions — winning the socket in Cisco's first 10GBASE-T product.3 It is headquartered in Milpitas.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • IndustrySemiconductors & Related Devices1
  • HeadquartersMilpitas1
  • Websitewww.aquantia.com
  • Legal formcompany1
  • Incorporated inDE5
  • Business address91 E. Tasman Drive, Suite 100, San Jose, Ca 951345
  • Filer categoryAccelerated filer, Emerging growth company5

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Aquantia Corporation was a manufacturer of high-speed transceivers. In 2004, Aquantia Corporation was founded and first made products for Data Center connectivity. In 2008, it shipped the first monolithic 10GBASE-T PHY silicon at 5W — under half the power of incumbent solutions — winning the socket in Cisco's first 10GBASE-T product. In 2013 announced the world's first integrated 10GBASE-T MAC/PHY for servers. In 2014, Aquantia founded the NBASE-T Alliance together with Cisco, Xilinx and Freescale. In the same year they introduced a technology that delivered a boost to Ethernet throughput and was aimed to help with an expected increase in mobile broadband traffic. The NBASE-T Alliance promoted the 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T standard, which was ratified as the 802.3bz standard by the IEEE in 2016. The standard enabled Cat5e cables to carry 2.5 and 5 Gb of data per second and Cat6 cables to carry 5 Gbps. In 2016, Aquantia announced a Simultaneous Bi-Directional (SBD) PAM4 transceiver technology that made it possible to achieve up to 100Gbps over a copper cable. In 2018, Aquantia brought its SBD PAM4 technology to the IEEE standards body as a way to deliver multi-Gig Ethernet for self-driving vehicle networks while halving the number of cables required in the car. In 2020, the IEEE ratified the 802.3ch standard — defining 2.5GBASE-T1, 5GBASE-T1, and 10GBASE-T1 — based on the SBD PAM4 technology. That same year, the IEEE began extending the same technology to data rates of 25–100 Gbps as 25GBASE-T1 and 100GBASE-T1.3

What it owns

What Aquantia Corporation reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Property and equipment

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Property and equipment, before depreciation$26.7M7 Dec 31, 2018$23.1M7 Dec 31, 2017+15.2%
Accumulated depreciation$17.4M7 Dec 31, 2018$13.2M7 Dec 31, 2017+32.4%
Property and equipment, net$9.2M7 Dec 31, 2018$10.0M7 Dec 31, 2017−7.5%

Investments

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Cash and cash equivalents$6.7M7 Dec 31, 2018$8.0M7 Dec 31, 2017−16.9%
Marketable securities, current$60.7M7 Dec 31, 2018$48.4M7 Dec 31, 2017+25.6%
Debt securities available for sale$64.9M7 Dec 31, 2018$54.1M7 Dec 31, 2017+19.9%

Intangibles and goodwill

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Finite-lived intangibles, gross$5.8M7 Dec 31, 2018$5.8M7 Dec 31, 20170%
Accumulated amortization$2.0M7 Dec 31, 2018$1.2M7 Dec 31, 2017+66.9%
Finite-lived intangibles, net$3.7M7 Dec 31, 2018$4.6M7 Dec 31, 2017−17.7%

Inventory

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Inventory, total$14.5M7 Dec 31, 2018$18.5M7 Dec 31, 2017−21.6%
Work in process$6.0M7 Dec 31, 2018$10.1M7 Dec 31, 2017−40.8%
Finished goods$7.3M7 Dec 31, 2018$4.8M7 Dec 31, 2017+50.2%

Leadership

Who has led Aquantia Corporation, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Faraj Aalaei2017–2019

Chair

  1. Faraj Aalaei2018–2019

President

  1. Faraj Aalaei2017–2019

Chief financial officer

  1. Mark Voll2017–2019

Chief operating officer

  1. Pirooz Parvarandeh2018–2019
20202025
Board members and other officers (13)

Acquisitions

Aquantia acquired the 10GBASE-T assets of PLX Technology in September 2012. PLX had picked them up in September 2010 from Teranetics.

From Wikipedia’s article on Aquantia Corporation, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.6

Timeline

  1. Nov 2, 2017New chief executive Faraj Aalaei becomes CEO8

SEC filer profile

How Aquantia Corporation is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARAQUANTIA CORP2
  • CIK0001316016
  • Filer statusAccelerated filer<br>emerging growth company2
  • Incorporated inDelaware2
  • Fiscal year endsDecember 312
  • Industry code (SIC)3674 Semiconductors & Related Devices2
  • Business address91 E. Tasman Drive, Suite 100, San Jose, CA 951342
  • Phone408-228-83002
  • Shares outstanding36,085,333 as of Aug 2, 201923
  • Public float$214.5M as of Jun 29, 20187
  • On EDGAR sinceJan 27, 20052
  • Filings241 in all: 4 (76), 8-K (22), 3 (19), UPLOAD (14), SC 13G/A (9), CORRESP (8), D (8), DRS/A (8)2
    All 42 form types

    DRSLTR (8), SC 13G (8), DEFA14A (7), 10-Q (6), REGDEX/A (4), SC 13D (4), 3/A (3), REGDEX (3), S-1/A (3), 10-K (2), 10-K/A (2), DEF 14A (2), S-8 (2), S-8 POS (2), SC 13D/A (2), 10-Q/A (1), 144 (1), 15-12B (1), 25-NSE (1), 4/A (1), 424B4 (1), 5 (1), 8-A12B (1), CERTNYS (1), CT ORDER (1), D/A (1), DEFM14A (1), DFAN14A (1), DRS (1), EFFECT (1), PRE 14A (1), PREM14A (1), S-1 (1), SD (1)

  • Latest filingsAnnual report (10-K) Mar 6, 2019
    Quarterly report (10-Q) Aug 8, 2019
    Proxy statement (DEF 14A) Apr 29, 2019
    Latest 8-K (8-K) Sep 19, 2019

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