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Sources and credits

Text survived, images did not — and the page says which is which.

This is an independent record of RF Pixels, Inc., a Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor company that built phased-array radio for 5G millimetre wave and was acquired by Skyworks in July 2021.

Nothing visual survived. The company’s site is gone: the logo, the beamforming animation, the stylesheet and the wafer photographs were never captured by the Internet Archive. What survived is the text of the 2020 static site, the SEC filing and the acquisition record. So this is a rebuild, not a restoration, and every drawing here says so.

Provenance

Where each claim comes from

  • The tagline and the mmWave explanation — the company’s 2020 static home page: “Enabling 5G – Next Generation Wireless Solutions”, the paragraph on spectrum at 24 GHz and above, attenuation, beamforming and open interfaces.
  • The company description and careers text — the 2020 careers page: venture-backed, Silicon Valley, ties to the UC Berkeley Wireless Research Center, “novel phased-array radio technology… unprecedented capacity and breakthrough economics”.
  • The four job listings — the same careers page, with their descriptions and requirements.
  • Addresses, phone and email — the 2020 site footer (Sunnyvale) and the 2018 SEC filing (Fremont).
  • Founding year, people and the 2018 raise — SEC Form D, CIK 1685852, filed 18 September 2018: $1,000,000 of convertible notes sold to 22 investors; Sriramkumar Venugopalan, Siva Thyagarajan, Ali Niknejad and Larry Lang as executive officers, Stefan Dyckerhoff and Andrew Kau as directors.
  • Backers and the acquisition — Crustdata lists Sutter Hill Ventures, Celesta Capital and the National Science Foundation; Crunchbase records Skyworks Solutions acquiring RF Pixels on 26 July 2021, and PitchBook lists the company as acquired.
  • The NSF SBIR amounts — the SBIR company profile: $224,996 (Phase I), $749,987 (Phase II), $974,983 in total.
  • O-RAN Alliance, Telecom Infra Project and IWPC — the marks displayed on the company’s own page; the files were not archived, so they are named in text.

What changed

Rebuilt, and declared

  • The wordmark is reset in type — “RF Pıxels”, keeping the company’s own spelling with a dotless ı. The original logo file is lost.
  • The palette and layout are this rebuild’s — the original stylesheet is lost, so the ink/cyan palette and the page structure are a reconstruction, not a restoration.
  • All diagrams are drawn here — the phased array, the module stack and the path-loss curve. The path-loss curve is illustrative and labelled as such; no measured data is claimed.
  • The beamforming animation is not reproduced — the original was credited to Professor Ali Niknejad of the UC Berkeley Wireless Research Center and was not archived.
  • No photographs. The wafer and crowd images referenced by the WordPress-era site were never captured.
  • The contact form is a replica and posts nowhere.

What is not claimed

The gaps

  • No product name or datasheet was ever published, so none appears.
  • No performance figures — capacity, power or range — were published, so none are quoted.
  • No customers or partners are named; the consortium marks are memberships, not deployments.
  • The WordPress-era pages are not used: in 2021 they carried placeholder text (“bacon ipsum”) and were never finished.
  • No claim that the company still trades — it was acquired in 2021 and the domain no longer serves a site.

Independent site

Built from RF Pixels’ published material and public records. Not affiliated with RF Pixels, Inc. or Skyworks Solutions.

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