GainSpan

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GainSpan
Industry Semiconductors
Electronics
FoundedSeptember 2006
Headquarters San Jose, California, United States
Key people
Greg Winner (President and CEO)
Website http://www.gainspan.com

GainSpan, a San Jose, California-based semiconductor company, designs and markets ultra-low power Wi-Fi technology. [1] [2] It offers Wi-Fi chips, software, and embedded Wi-Fi modules. [3] [4] [5] The company provides Wi-Fi technology for the residential housing, healthcare, and smart energy industries. [5] [6] [7] [8] It has more than 90 employees primarily working in research and development at its two R&D centers in San Jose, California and Bangalore, India. [2]

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History

Engineers from Intel Corporation created GainSpan in September 2006 with the goal of reducing the power consumption of traditional Wi-Fi. [9] GainSpan was the first company to optimize Wi-Fi chips for low power consumption and to apply new power management techniques to target long battery life applications. [6] [10] [11]

Greg Winner was appointed CEO of GainSpan in 2010. [12] In August 2010, GainSpan launched its GS1011M Wi-Fi module that companies can integrate into their products to provide WiFi connectivity. [13]

GainSpan created the GS2000 in 2013. It was the first chip developed to combine both Wi-Fi and ZigBee IP. [14]

In January 2014, GainSpan became the low-power Wi-Fi technology supplier for Solem Electronique's WiFi irrigation controller and Wi-Fi outdoor lighting system. [15]

In January 2015, GainSpan was selected as a partner to integrate its GS2000 modules into Ring's HD video doorbells. [16] [17]

In 2017, GainSpan was acquired by Telit Cinterion for US$ 8 million. [18] [19] Telit took the 60 software and application tech team based in Bangalore as leverage and used them to expand their research and development facilities. [20]

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