Whether it's supporting local communities, raising awareness for critical health causes, or investing in education and sustainability, Credo Cares is more than a corporate initiative—it's a testament to the power of collection action to create lasting, positive change.
Leading with Heart: Supporting the American Heart Association
One of the highlights of our community involvement this year was supporting the American Heart Association’s mission to fight cardiovascular disease. Bill Brennan, Credo's President and CEO, took on the distinguished role of 2025 Chairman for the Bay Area Heart Ball, a key event dedicated to raising awareness and funds for heart disease research. Thanks to Bill’s leadership and the tireless efforts of Corey Bentley, our team’s Impact Leader, we raised an impressive $500,000 for research, advocacy, and better public health policies—ensuring that heart health is accessible to all communities.
Running for a Cure with Project Purple
Our commitment to health extends beyond heart disease. This year, Sheng Huang, one of our dedicated colleagues, ran the London Marathon to raise awareness and funds for Project Purple, an organization committed to fighting pancreatic cancer. Sheng’s run was a tribute to Sherrill Dale, a beloved member of our team who tragically passed away from pancreatic cancer earlier this year. His determination, coupled with the support of our incredible team, helped raise nearly $60,000 for pancreatic cancer research, advancing the fight for early detection and curative treatments.
Feeding Communities with Second Harvest
Through our partnership with Second Harvest, we’ve made significant strides in addressing food insecurity in the Bay Area.Through volunteer efforts and contributions, we helped feed over 18,500 families, struggling in the Bay Area. The opportunity to volunteer and contribute to this important cause has shown us the deep impact of community collaboration, and we’re eager to continue making a difference in the future.
Giving the Gift of Life with Stanford Blood Drive
We also recognize the critical importance of education in shaping the future. Our team partnered with RAFT (Resource Area For Teaching) to build over 600 STEAM kits for local schools. RAFT creates educational materials for K-12 students using recycled materials, and these low-cost kits empower educators and inspire the next generation of innovators. By providing the resources for creativity and impactful learning, we are helping to build a brighter, more sustainable future
A Commitment to Continuous Giving Back
Credo Cares is more than just financial contributions—it’s about creating a culture of giving and community involvement that spreads to every aspect of our company. We are incredibly proud of our employee-driven initiatives, including raising nearly $20,000 for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and engaging in physical activities like fun runs, walks, and wellness programs.
As we reflect on the first year of Credo Cares, we look forward to expanding our efforts to support charities, fundraisers, and initiatives that align with our values and the communities we serve. But most importantly, we will continue to empower our employees to get involved, create change, and leave a lasting legacy of goodwill.
Join Us in Making a Difference
Want to learn more about Credo Cares and how you can get involved? Visit our ESG page to explore our initiatives and discover how we’re creating a better tomorrow, one step at a time.
This award honors semiconductor companies that demonstrate excellence in innovation, execution, and industry impact. This recognition highlights Credo’s innovative contributions in delivering high-speed, energy-efficient connectivity solutions tailored to the evolving demands of AI, cloud computing, and data center infrastructure.
“This award is a testament to the ingenuity and dedication of our team, as well as the trust and collaboration of our partners and customers,” said Bill Brennan, CEO of Credo. “At Credo, we push the boundaries for high-speed connectivity, to enable the future of AI, cloud, and data center infrastructure. We thank the GSA and our peers for this incredible recognition.”
Recognition From the Global Semiconductor Alliance
The recognition came during the GSA’s 30th-anniversary gala, an event that honors excellence across the global semiconductor landscape. Credo’s achievements signal a bright future as the company continues its ongoing mission to deliver transformative solutions for the data infrastructure market. Credo remains committed to addressing the challenges of the data-driven world with energy-efficient, high-performance connectivity solutions.
Addressing AI Infrastructure Needs
The PCIe interface remains critical in AI clusters where high-speed interconnects are required to link GPUs, CPUs, and endpoints like Smart NICs and NVME storage. As AI workloads continue to grow in complexity and scale, there has never been a greater demand for faster data transfer and more efficient hardware connectivity. To meet these challenges, innovations like Credo’s retimers help eliminate bottlenecks and streamline data flow across systems, while also enhancing performance.
Alongside these developments, Credo’s retimers and PCIe OSFP-XD AECs play a crucial role in enhancing PCIe cabling architectures. High performance PCB materials and passive cabling is still limited for robust PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 channel lengths. By leveraging Credos retimers on the PCB at one end of a passive cable or within the PCIe OSFP-XD cable, Credo solutions can compensate for the higher insertion loss in PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 systems extending reach up to 7m and enabling in rack and rack-to-rack solutions.
Enhanced Diagnostics for Faster Deployment
With the move to PAM4 signaling for PCIe 6.0 and 7.0, debug is considerably more challenging due to lower SNR, and higher sensitivity to jitter and noise (ISI, crosstalk, reflection, etc.). Credo has over a decade of PAM4 SerDes design and debug experience, enabling best in class development tools. Features like an integrated logic analyzer, PCIe port/lane configuration and status, and advanced SerDes diagnostics including eye diagrams help customers get to market quickly with robust, reliable systems.
Pioneering a Sustainable Future
In line with the industry’s growing emphasis on sustainability, Credo places a strong focus on energy efficiency. By optimizing power consumption and leveraging cost-effective process technologies, Credo’s solutions help scale data infrastructure without dramatically increasing energy consumption. This approach not only supports the industry's shift towards greener technology but also underscores Credo's commitment to a more sustainable future.
The Future of Connectivity
With the move to faster speeds of 64 GT/s for PCIe 6.0/CXL and 128 GT/s for PCIe 7.0/CXL and speeds beyond 224 Gb/s for Ethernet and UALink, Credo’s in house SerDes solutions are well positioned to deliver reliable, cost-efficient, and high-performance system solutions for the AI-driven infrastructure ensuring data centers can scale effectively to meet tomorrow’s demands.
Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO) an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved energy efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase throughout the data infrastructure market, is proud to announce its collaboration with Net One Systems, a leading IT and communications solution provider in Japan. This agreement marks the first time that Credo’s innovative HiWire Active Electrical Cables (AECs) will be distributed in the Japanese market, catering to the rapidly expanding generative AI infrastructure.
With Net One Systems as an official distributor, Credo AECs will deliver a critical solution for high-bandwidth and low-power communication networks which are essential for generative AI, hyperscale data centers, and advanced telecommunications buildouts. HiWire AECs provide several advantages over traditional Active Optical Cables (AOCs), including lower power consumption and greater flexibility in numerous configuration options—vital factors for businesses seeking to optimize performance while reducing operational costs.
“We are excited to partner with Net One Systems, an esteemed leader in the Japanese ICT landscape,” said Michael Girvan Lampe, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Credo. “Our HiWire AECs are designed to meet the challenges of next-generation AI networks by delivering superior reliability, bandwidth, and energy efficiency compared to passive, direct attached copper. Together, we aim to support Japan’s AI-driven future with innovative solutions that cater to the unique needs of one of the world’s most dynamic technology markets.”
“By offering Credo's HiWire AEC cables to the Japanese market, we are enabling energy-efficient data centers and fostering sustainable growth for our clients while helping to contribute to an eco-friendly global environment,” explained Yusuke Fujita, Vice President of Business Development Division at Net One Systems. “Net One looks forward to working with Credo in delivering high-performance, low-power solutions for the next generation of AI data centers to our customers in the Japanese market.”
To learn more about the Credo products in this release go to the product pages linked here.
Net One Systems Co., Ltd. is a group of ICT experts with the ability to identify superior technologies and value. The company is committed to contributing to a sustainable society by providing services that create social and economic value through the utilization of these technologies. Net One Systems continuously monitors global cutting-edge technology trends, evaluates their combinations, and implements them. By practicing these technologies in-house, the company also delivers practical utilization know-how to its clients.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and cost efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G and 800G port markets. Our products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include integrated circuits (ICs), Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit: https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Credo Leverages SerDes Expertise to Deliver Energy Efficient PCIe 6 and 7 Retimers
San Jose, Calif., October 14, 2024 – Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved energy efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase throughout the data infrastructure market, is excited to announce the company’s first Toucan PCI Express (PCIe) 6, Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.x and Magpie PCIe 7, CXL 4.x retimers and OSFP-XD 16x64GT/s (1Tb) PCIe6/CXL HiWire AECs. Credo will demonstrate the Toucan PCIe 6 retimers and HiWire AECs at the upcoming Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit October15-17 in Booth31 and the OCP Innovation Center.
Building on Credo's renowned Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) technology, the new PCIe 6 and PCIe 7 retimers deliver industry leading performance and power efficiency while being built on lower cost, more mature process nodes than competing devices. Credo will also include enhanced diagnostic tools, including an embedded logic analyzer and advanced SerDes tools driven by a new GUI designed to enable rapid bring up and debug of customer systems.
To see a brief video overview of the Credo PCI Express retimers and cables, go here.
"Credo is excited to extend our leadership into a new category of high-speed connectivity with the introduction of the Toucan PCIe 6 and Magpie PCIe 7 retimers," said Phil Kumin of Credo, Associate Vice President of PCIe Product. “By leveraging a mature process technology node, we are well positioned to achieve a cost advantage over our competition. Furthermore, with our SerDes already under evaluation on Tier 1 reference platforms, Credo is well positioned to capitalize on the AI industry’s transition to PCIe 7 and take advantage of the throughput improvement.”
“As PCIe speeds climb to 64GT/s and 128GT/s, retimers are increasingly critical components.” Said Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Intel Senior Fellow, Chief Architect of I/O Technology and Standards in the Data Center Platforms and Artificial Intelligence Group at Intel Corporation. “As a leader in PCIe, we commend Credo for their investment in PCIe6/CXL3.x and PCIe7/CXL4.x retimers and we’re excited to collaborate with them on pre-silicon co-simulation.
Credo’s Toucan PCIe6/CXL3.x retimer, based on the TSMC N7 process technology, will sample in Q4, 2024. Toucan offers a full DSP SerDes to support PAM4 PCIe channels up to 43dB, enhanced diagnostic tools including an embedded logic analyzer, and x16 power of 11W. Credo’s Magpie PCIe7/CXL4.x retimer, based on the TSMC N5 process node, will begin sampling in H2 2025.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and cost efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G and 800G port markets. Our products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include integrated circuits (ICs), Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit: https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.