MOLEX
History
| Year | Detail |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Molex was founded in 1938 by Frederick Krehbiel in Brookfield, Illinois. Initially, the company focused on manufacturing coal-based plastic products, which gave it its name ("Molex" originated from "molded plastic"). |
| 2013 | Koch Industries acquired Molex for $7.2 billion in 0213. Under Koch Industries' ownership, Molex continued to expand its global presence and innovate in areas such as automotive, data communications, industrial automation, medical devices, and consumer electronics. |
| 2022 | The company commercially launched 400G ZR QSFP-DD pluggable coherent optical transceivers to support the demands for advanced Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions. |
| 2022 | The company partnered with Pile Dynamics Inc. (PDI), a global manufacturer of deep foundation testing equipment, to transform the traditional quality testing of foundations supporting massive infrastructures, such as bridges, skyscrapers, and stadiums, without fault or failure. |
| 2023 | The company introduced the industry’s first chip-to-chip 224G product portfolio that includes cables, backplanes, board-to-board connectors, and near-ASIC connector-to-cable solutions operating at speeds up to 224 Gb/s-PAM4 to power advanced technology, including generative AI, machine learning (ML), 1.6T networking and other high-speed applications. |
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