| Type | Fabless semiconductor company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder(s) | Juan Carlos Riveiro, Jed Hurwitz, Hakan Fouren, Mike Wilson |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain Edinburgh, UK Redwood City, California |
| Products | Home networks, Semiconductor Devices |
| Owner(s) | Broadcom |
| Website | www.giglenetworks.com |
Gigle Networks (formerly known as Gigle Semiconductor) was a provider of high performance system-on-a-chip semiconductor devices and intelligent switching technology for home network, IPTV, consumer electronics and smart grid applications. The company is based in Barcelona, Spain, Edinburgh, UK, and Redwood City, California.
Gigle was a venture capital backed privately held company. The company completed a Series A funding round of $11 million in January 2006, led by Accel Partners and Pond Venture Partners; and a Series B funding round of $20 million in November 2007, led by Scottish Equity Partners with participation from Accel Partners and Pond Venture Partners.[1] In December 2010, the company was acquired by Broadcom for $75m.[2][3]
Gigle was reported to be the first company to bring to market a home networking wireline solution capable of delivering 1 Gbit/s physical layer throughput.[4]
Gigle Networks was actively involved in the creation, support and setting of multimedia communications standards and was an active participant in IEEE P1901 and G.hn wireline standardization activities. Gigle Networks was a board member of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance,[5] a co-founder of the Homegrid Forum[6] a member of the Home Gateway Initiative and the Broadband Forum.