Abrizio
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Abrizio was a fabless semiconductor company which made switching fabric chip sets. Their chip set, the TT1, was used by several large system development companies as the core switch fabric in their high value communication systems.
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[edit] Founding
It was founded in 1997 by Dr. Nick McKeown and Anders Swahn and received USD 6M of funding from Benchmark Capital and Sequoia Capital.
[edit] Product and technology
The product name TT1 referred to "Tiny Tera" meaning a small, highly integrated semiconductor implementation of a terabit/s capacity switching fabric. Abrizio's corporate colors were purple and yellow.
Abrizio's key technology was a sophisticated implementation of a Wavefront arbiter which allowed the switch to make complex arbitration decisions very quickly.
[edit] Senior leadership
The CEO of Abrizio was Anders Swahn. The CTO was Dr. Nick McKeown who was taking a leave from his professorship at Stanford University. Zubair Hussein was the V.P. of Engineering.
[edit] Acquisition
Abrizio was acquired on August 24, 1999 by PMC-Sierra for USD400M. After the acquisition, the former Abrizio development team completed the TTx switch chip set.
