Fabless Start-up Lands DARPA Contract

Online staff -- Electronic News, 12/15/2003

Fabless start-up Kenet Inc., a developer of mixed-signal semiconductor products, today formally launched the company and announced it has been awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense.

"We believe this contract award reflects on the strength of the Kenet team," said John Fan, Kenet co-founder and chairman of the board, in a statement. "With a formidable combination of technology expertise drawn from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and proven success at the industry's leading semiconductor companies, this team has what it takes to establish and sustain Kenet as a market leader."

Under the DARPA contract, Kenet will further develop the ability to monolithically integrate its mixed-signal solutions with large digital systems. Monolithic integration allows the realization of all required functionality on one single chip, the company explained.

Further details of the contract were not given.

Kenet was founded in April 2002 by former MIT Lincoln Laboratory members and industry executives from the likes of Analog Devices and GlobespanVirata.