Amphenol, Samtec tie up second source deal

27th May 2016

Amphenol Ltd

Mick Elliott

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Amphenol and Samtec have entered into license agreements for several backplane connector families. Under the agreements, Amphenol will license its intellectual property and detailed design information for the XCede, XCede HD, AirMax, and Paladin families of products. These product families include those acquired with Amphenol’s recent acquisition of FCI Asia.

“Amphenol has a strong history of providing its customers with guaranteed intermateable second sources for its backplane interconnect systems, and we are pleased that Samtec, one of the most respected and fastest growing global connector companies, has partnered with us for these important products,” said Adam Norwitt, President and CEO of Amphenol. “Samtec’s experience with high bandwidth interconnects and culture of exceptional customer service, combined with the industry leading performance of Amphenol’s backplane connectors, will further solidify our comprehensive support for our customers in the very important data communications and telecommunications markets.”

“Samtec has invested significantlyto offer our customers’ engineers solutions for optimizing the high-speed signal path.These agreements with Amphenol greatly accelerate our backplane product portfolio and leverage our substantial high speed capabilities,” said John Shine, CEO of Samtec, Inc. “We’re looking forward to working with Amphenol to expand the global acceptance of these product families.”