please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message alereon type private founded 2003 headquarters austin texas usa website www.alereon.com alereon inc is a fabless semiconductor company . it uses ultrawideband uwb radio technology to develop certified wireless usb and wimedia alliance compliant uwb integrated circuits ics . headquartered in austin texas alereon also has offices in korea and hong kong . alereon was spun off from time domain corporation of huntsville alabama in august 2003 taking with it a number of engineers executives and patents from its parent company . an early investor was austin ventures . 1 it initially backed the multi band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing approach taken by the multiband ofdm alliance . 1 a number of competing technologies were discussed by the ieee 802.15 standards committee in 2004 . 2 in october 2005 20 million in financing included investors centennial ventures and pharos capital . 3 after the ieee effort was abandoned the venture arm of samsung electronics invested 4 million in december 2006 . 4 by 2009 eric brookman was still chief executive . 5 in june 2012 an addition 6 million of funding was announced with investors pharos capital partners and duchossois technology partners and led by enhanced capital partners . 6 references edit a b uwb startup alereon uncloaks . light reading . august 25 2003 . retrieved august 30 2013 . motorola and mboa split on uwb two specs risk chaos and slowdown . the register . march 23 2004 . retrieved august 30 2013 . alereon announces series b funding capital to be used to begin production shipments of al4000 chipset for wireless usb market . press release . october 25 2005 . retrieved august 30 2013 . suzanne deffree december 11 2006 . samsung invests 4m in uwb company . electronic design news . retrieved august 30 2013 . jeff goldman april 8 2009 . ultrawideband down but far from out . wi fi planet . retrieved august 30 2013 . alereon announces 6 million cash infusion . press release . june 6 2012 . retrieved august 30 2013 . external links edit official website this computer hardware article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this united states manufacturing company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alereon & oldid 691149743 categories companies established in 2003fabless semiconductor companiesusbcomputer hardware stubsunited states manufacturing company stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from june 2011all articles needing additional referencesall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 november 2015 at 23 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view