Market Capitalization (Millions $) |
170 |
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Outstanding (Millions) |
56 |
Employees |
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Revenues (TTM) (Millions $) |
33 |
Net Income (TTM) (Millions $) |
-41 |
Cash Flow (TTM) (Millions $) |
6 |
Capital Exp. (TTM) (Millions $) |
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Sequans Communications S A
We are a fabless designer, developer, and provider of cellular semiconductor solutions for the huge and rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) sectors. We provide a complete collection of 5G/4G chips and modules that are completely tuned for non-smartphone devices. Massive IoT applications have reduced data transmission requirements, but the technology must be greatly efficient in terms of power consumption and cost to enable broad implementation. Smart transportation and logistics, smart cities, e-health and wellness, and smart homes are just a few examples. On the other hand, for broadband IoT applications, the technology is tuned to give the best possible throughput and the lowest possible latency to households, businesses, and industrial sites.
While this requirement is similar to what we can see in a smartphone, our solutions focus on providing better trade-off in cost and performance optimized for broadband IoT devices such as enterprise routers and home gateways. Our product portfolio is composed of chips, or integrated circuits (IC) of baseband processors and radio frequency (RF) transceivers, as well as machine-to-machine (M2M) modules that incorporate these chips along with radio front end subsystem, and rich software that includes advanced modem and signal processing code as well as protocol stack and higher-layer applications. Our goal is to deliver an advanced set of features with technology optimized to address the IoT requirements: power, cost and size for massive IoT, and throughput, cost and latency for broadband and critical IoT. And for both, to deliver high reliability with advanced security algorithms at a competitive price.
While increasing demand for mobile and fixed broadband connectivity is driving 4G and 5G technologies along a performance vector, the IoT market is pushing wireless technology along a different vector. Many machine-to-machine (M2M) and other low-power IoT applications are moving to LTE connectivity for its expected longevity, and because the technology is being optimized for reduced power consumption, improved coverage and lower cost. Many M2M connections are of the 'set it and forget it' variety, and are expected to remain operational for ten or more years, sometimes powered by a battery. According to Cisco Annual internet Report (2018-2023) updated in February 2020, total M2M connections is expected to grow 2.4-fold from 6.1 billion in 2018 to 14.7 billion by 2023. The overall surge in the number of mobile and M2M connections and the traffic they produce, coupled with the relative scarcity of available wireless spectrum, has prompted a number of operators, including AT&T in the United States and others in South Korea and Japan, to shut down their aging 2G networks so they can re-farm the spectrum for use with 4G LTE technology. This trend is also expanding in European countries and in Australia, with leading operators such as Vodafone and EE announcing their roadmaps to shut down 2G and 3G.
We have developed a portfolio of 4G and now 5G semiconductor solutions to address a variety of applications and market segments. We offer baseband solutions used to encode and decode data based on 4G and 5G protocols that serve as the core wireless processing platform for a cellular device; RF transceivers used to transmit and receive wireless transmissions; and highly integrated SoC solutions that combine these and other functions into a single die or package. Some of our SoC solutions integrate the baseband and RF transceiver functions, in some cases with an applications processor and memory. This advanced integration reduces the size, cost, design complexity and power consumption of cellular solution. We offer a family of LTE modules that vastly simplify the task of embedding LTE connectivity for device makers lacking cellular experience. This helps us expanding our options in adjusting our business model on case-by-case basis.
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