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HSINCHU, Taiwan-  March 9, 2023 – (PRNewswire) – Metanoia Communications Inc. (“Metanoia”), in collaboration with NXP® Semiconductors NV. (“NXP”), announces that HFCL has selected Metanoia’s 5G-NR RF transceiver, NXP’s Layerscape^®  and Layerscape Access family of processors for HFCL’s All-in-One 5G 2T2R Indoor Small Cell to deliver outstanding and reliable 5G cellular indoor coverage. Together, the Metanoia RFIC and NXP processors provide exceptional small form factor and capability for HFCL to deliver over 1 Gbps aggregate throughput, making it ideal for 5G in-building solutions and for Private 5G networks, e.g. hospitality, MDU, campus and more.

HFCL is a leading technology enterprise offering a wide range of next-generation communication products and integrated solutions both in India and abroad. Its 5G portfolio includes 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) and Transport products which caters to the needs of communication service providers (CSP), enterprises and industry verticals.

“5G Small Cells are an integral part of HFCL’s growing 5G RAN portfolio to help telcos improving 5G coverage and enabling private 5G solutions for digital transformation of various industries. For our 2T2R Indoor Small Cell platform we are happy to choose Metanoia’s 5G-NR RFIC that provides HFCL with maximum flexibility to deliver a wide range of 5G Indoor Small Cell solutions across frequency bands & form factors which caters to our customer needs both in India and globally.” said Mahendra Nahata, Managing Director, HFCL.

Metanoia RFIC, MT3812, is uniquely suited to performance driven and price sensitive 5G Small Cell or RU applications. MT3812 is a low power Sub-6GHz 2×2 RFIC which supports up-to 200 MHz bandwidth in Transmit and Receive TDD modes, and 400 MHz in DPD mode.

“We are proud that HFCL has selected Metanoia’s for our world class 5G RFIC to combine with the high performance NXP Layerscape Access platform. Metanoia’s growing line of integrated 5G products provides high performance, low cost & low power 5G solutions to enable 5G massive deployments worldwide” said Dr. Stewart Wu, President and CEO of Metanoia. “Metanoia is thrilled to support HFCL as they bring future products to their targeted 5G markets”.  

NXP’s high performance Layerscape family of multicore processors and 5G NR programable baseband processors are part of NXP’s antenna-to-processor portfolio for accelerating 5G deployments, which delivers advanced performance and security for infrastructure, industrial, and automotive applications.

“The advanced capabilities of NXP’s Layerscape family and our broader 5G portfolio support the wide-ranging needs of 5G network deployments,” said Jeff Steinheider, Vice President and General Manager, Industrial Edge, NXP. “The collaboration with Metanoia and HFCL has created a differentiated 5G small cell solution that will help expand 5G coverage and drive new 5G use cases.”

About Metanoia Communications, Inc.

Metanoia based in Hsinchu, Taiwan has contributed to the development of several generations of semiconductor SoC solutions for wireline Broadband and is now focusing in bringing new products to the 5G NR Markets.

BARCELONA, Spain –  March 2, 2022 – (PR Newswire) – Astella Technologies Limited (ASTELLA), Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) collaborate with 5G industry leaders to deliver a live, 5G end-to-end demonstration of integrated small cells at the Mobile World Congress 2022, being held in Barcelona from 28 February to 3 March 2022.

The demonstration leverages key building blocks from a growing partner ecosystem which consists of:

• NXP® Semiconductors’ integrated small cell hardware platform featuring the company’s Layerscape® Access LA1200 family of programmable baseband processors, along with its high-performance Arm®-based multicore communications processing platform (LX2160).
• Metanoia’s 5G RF Sub-6GHz RFIC (the MT3812) and each RFIC supports 2T2R and 100MHz system bandwidth.
• ASTELLA 5G Software for integrated small cells consisting of high-performance high PHY and low PHY software with Digital Front-End (DFE) and is powered by ASTRI 5G technologies.
• Capgemini Engineering commercial 5G Layer2/Layer3 protocol stack.
• ASTRI’s high performance 5G Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and 5G Core.

The 5G integrated small cell is configured as a 4T4R 100MHz system bandwidth solution and is attached with a commercial terminal running live data streaming traffic achieving over 1Gbps end-to-end throughput.

ASTELLA 5G integrated small cells support both indoor and outdoor deployments as well as FR1 and FR2 frequency bands. Integrated with 5G Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and 5G Core from ASTRI, ASTELLA 5G solutions are highly cost competitive for new 5G use cases such as industrial internet of things (IoT), NR Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X), 5G mission critical applications etc.

Dr Eric Tsang, CEO of Astella Technologies Limited, said, “ASTELLA is pleased to continue its long-standing collaboration with all the 5G industry leaders to offer commercial-ready, competitive and high-performance 5G solutions. Our proven expertise in the wireless communication systems and wireless baseband technologies could accelerate our partners to have quick time-to-market 5G solutions.”

Dr Justin Chuang, VP of Communications Technologies of ASTRI, said, “ASTRI has participated in MWC Barcelona for about 10 years continuously to promote technologies with our partners and connect with the world for collaboration. This year, we are delighted to join hands with our partners Astella, Capgemini Engineering, Metanoia and NXP to showcase integrated and commercial ready 5G O-RAN small cell solution, together with ASTRI’s 5G MEC and 5G Core solution. We will work closely with eco-system partners to accelerate the commercialization of 5G technologies and enable a wider range of emerging applications such as smart cities, industrial IoT, C-V2X, AR/VR etc.”

ASTELLA will demonstrate the live end-to-end system of the 5G integrated small cells at the MWC event.  

About ASTELLA

ASTELLA is a new 5G technology company founded in Hong Kong in 2022 supporting the O-RAN ecosystems. The team is established by the alumni from ASTRI with over 15 years’ experience on wireless communication systems and intelligent solutions. ASTELLA is located in the Hong Kong Science Park in the Everbright Limited Hong Kong Innovation Centre. For more information about ASTELLA, please visit www.astellatech.com.

About ASTRI

The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under five Technology Divisions: AI and Big Data Analytics; Communications; Cybersecurity, Cryptography and Trusted Technologies; Integrated Circuits and Systems; and IoT and Sensors. It is applied across five core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, and Application Specific Integrated Circuits.

Over the years, ASTRI has nurtured a pool of research, I&T talents and received numerous international awards for its pioneering innovations as well as outstanding business and community contributions. As of 2020/21, ASTRI has transferred almost 800 technologies to the industry and has been granted over 900 patents in the Mainland, the US, and other countries. For more information about ASTRI, please visit www.astri.org.

About Metanoia Communications, Inc.

Metanoia Communications, established in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan has contributed to the development of several generations of semiconductor and software solutions for wireline Broadband and more recently for the 5G markets, like Radio Unit (RU), Small Cells, CPE, etc…

Hsinchu – February 18, 2022 – (PR Newswire) – Metanoia Communications (“Metanoia”) today, in collaboration with New Kinpo Group (“NKG”) and the Institute for Information Industry (“III”), announced the participation and the successful completion of all test cases during the O-RAN Global PlugFest 2021, in Taiwan, using a 5G NR Sub-6GHz RU product that was jointly developed and combines innovative technologies from these organizations.

About Metanoia Communications, Inc.
Metanoia Communication has contributed to the development of several generations of semiconductor and software solutions for wireline Broadband. 

HSINCHU, Oct. 25, 2021  — Metanoia Communications (“Metanoia”) today announced its collaboration with NXP® Semiconductors for the development of a new 5G NR Sub-6GHz demonstration/development platform (Reference Platform) that combines innovative technologies from both companies.

The new Reference Platform leverages NXP’s high performance Layerscape® family of multicore processors and 5G NR programable baseband processors and Metanoia’s recently announced 5G NR Sub-6Ghz RF IC (MT3812). The Reference Platform will facilitate and reduce considerably customers’ design cycle building a 5G Sub-6GHz solution addressing all 5G market segments ­– from a single FWA CPE to low or high density 5G Remote Radio Units (RRUs), and to highly integrated Small-Cells.

Targeting the high volume, highly popular mid-band (3.3 GHz – 4.2 GHz (n77), the complete 5G NR Reference Platform enables the development of Software Defined Radio (SDR) solutions with support for i) L1 PHY implementations, ii) a wide range of DPD/CFR performance, iii) networking offload for timing, parsing and Quality of Service (QoS), iv) offload for eCPRI C/U- and S-Plane including virtualized and containerized L2 applications. Evaluating lower and higher frequency bands, supported by the Metanoia MT3812, will also be possible by by-passing appropriate RF front end components, like a Power Amplifier and Low Noise Amplifier on the Reference Platform.

“The collaboration between NXP and Metanoia demonstrates the advanced capabilities of the Layerscape Access programmable solution platform and underscores our commitment to furthering our ecosystem-based strategy for faster, time-to-market solution enablement,” commented Tareq Bustami, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network Edge at NXP Semiconductors. “NXP offers a comprehensive 5G NR solutions portfolio that, with the help of our partners, is accelerating the development and deployment of 5G infrastructure networks around the world.”

“Partnering with NXP to offer a highly optimized development platform to our customers that includes our MT3812 RF IC and demonstrating that our chips, put together, can meet the 3GPP and the ORAN performance requirements is critical to our customers,” commented Didier Boivin, Executive Vice President at Metanoia. “A desire to create a high level of trust in our technologies is what drove NXP and Metanoia to work together on this combined Reference Platform.”

Metanoia’s MT3812 is a cost-effective Sub 6Ghz TDD 2×2 RF transceiver with a tiny 9×9 mm QFN68 footprint, which supports 200 MHz Bandwidth in Transmit and Receive modes, and 400 MHz in DPD mode. It is a highly integrated multi-band programmable and self-calibrated product supporting three of the most popular bands: 2.5 GHz – 3.0 GHz (n90), 3.3 GHz – 4.2 GHz (n77), and 4.2 GHz – 5.0 GHz (n79). MT3812 is designed to interface with any I/Q baseband chip and includes distinguishing features such as high dynamic range on its low noise receive chains and high linearity and low noise floor on its transmit chains.

From antenna-to-processor, NXP offers a robust portfolio of technologies for accelerating 5G deployments that deliver best-of-class performance and security for infrastructure, industrial, and automotive applications. This includes the company’s Airfast family of RF power solutions, Layerscape Access LA1200 family of software defined baseband processors for mmWave and sub-6GHz integrated small cell, DU, RU, and CPE, and its Layerscape family of multicore processors for wireless data links, fixed wireless access, and small cell devices. To learn more, visit nxp.com/5G.

About Metanoia Communications, Inc.

Metanoia Communications, a subsidiary of Elan Microelectronics, was established in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. Since its inception, Metanoia has contributed to the development of several generations of semiconductor and software solutions for wireline Broadband. For more information about Metanoia, please visit www.metanoia-comm.com.

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March 01, 2020 HSINCHU, Taiwan –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Metanoia Communications Inc. (Metanoia), a leading manufacturer of standalone high-speed xDSL and G.fast PHY chipsets for the wireline broadband market, is excited to announce that it has successfully completed its most significant fundraising in the history of the company from a stellar consortium of domestic investors led by Taiwania Capital Investment and National Development Fund. Elan Microelectronics, the original primary investor in Metanoia, is also participating in this new round of investment.

“Introduction of new and innovative products is a key area of focus in Metanoia’s strategy and this new round of investment will enable Metanoia to develop and release 5G chips for Remote Radio Units (RRU), Small Cells and CPEs in near future,” said Chien-Te Wu, Metanoia President & CEO. “The company will further capitalize on and broaden its established position as a recognized leader in the Broadband Wireline markets, where our employees are striving to enhance the overall customer experience, while deepening relationships with existing and new customers.”

Taiwania Capital CEO David Weng added: “Taiwania Capital Investment is very excited about investing in Metanoia as it embarks on a new journey with its strategic decision to diversify into the 5G market with the introduction of exciting new products with significant potential and market prospects.”

The funding will also be used to support the launch of Metanoia’s new G.fast / VDSL2 family of chipsets and is also expected to drive further international adoption and expansion.

5G solutions are rapidly moving beyond just providing indoor coverage within buildings or arenas, and are becoming strategic enablers of outdoor network densification for Services Providers and will be the key components in strengthening the Service Providers’ 5G deployments. Building chips that can serve both RRU and Small Cell markets as well as the CPE is an important element of Metanoia’s product strategy to meet these requirements.

“By developing our innovative and highly programmable architecture for our Broadband Wireline products, and by leveraging our partners’ knowledge in 5G technology, Metanoia quickly realized that it could adapt and use existing technology and apply it to certain 5G market segments,” added Didier Boivin, Metanoia executive vice president. “While the medium is different than what Metanoia has previously served, (wireless vs. wireline), there are significant overlaps at the physical layer (PHY) enabling Metanoia to leverage its existing technology and quickly come up with new 5G products and enable our current and future customers to meet the market requirements.”

“Taiwan is embarking on a strategy and plan for deploying 5G in both public and private enterprise networks in 2020. Key goals in Taiwan’s 5G program include providing end-end solutions in enterprise network for vertical applications and obtaining significant market shares for 5G related products,” said Dr. Li Fung Chang, CTO, 5G Technology Program Office, Ministry of Economic Affairs(MoEA). “To achieve these goals, it is counting on its domestic enterprises to contribute to the success of the program. Several companies are already enlisted from server companies to chipset companies like Metanoia. Upcoming new 5G products from Metanoia will bring the flexibility needed to implement features which could be helpful in quickly adapting to the changing market requirements and thereby creating lasting differentiators to the market.”

About Metanoia Communications, Inc.

Metanoia Communications, a subsidiary of Elan Microelectronics, was established in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. Since its inception, Metanoia has been contributing to the development of several generations of semiconductor and software solutions for the wireline Broadband and the in-home networking markets, delivering to broadband manufacturers very high-speed PHY devices with reliable and superior performances.