Business
Credo and 3M Enter Into Patent License Agreement
SAN JOSE, Calif., January 22, 2026--Credo and 3M enter into patent license agreement.
About this update from 3m Company
[{"type":"image","alt":"","displaySize":"","headline":null,"caption":"","credit":null,"className":"","disableSlideshowImg":false,"size":{"original":{"width":1800,"height":541,"url":"https://media.zenfs.com/en/business-wire.com/7993edef4720e0359442a986b17ef73b"},"resized":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/F7P1VECmipunSXmFOm.hUw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTI4OTtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/business-wire.com/7993edef4720e0359442a986b17ef73b","width":960,"height":289},"lightbox":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/SuLsW1BasHJ1wbUPuYDjog--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD03MjI7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/business-wire.com/7993edef4720e0359442a986b17ef73b","width":1200,"height":361}},"lazy":false},{"type":"text","content":"SAN JOSE, Calif., January 22, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved reliability and energy efficiency, has entered into a patent license and mutual covenant agreement with 3M Company related to Credo’s patents covering active electrical cable technology. Based on this agreement, Credo will license certain of its patents to 3M Company. In a statement, Don Barnetson, Senior Vice President of Product at Credo announced, "I am pleased to have reached an amicable agreement with 3M Company." The terms of the agreement remain confidential.","length":682,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"About Credo","length":11,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Credo’s mission is to redefine high-speed connectivity by delivering breakthrough solutions that enable the next generation of AI-driven applications. We are committed to enabling faster, more reliable, more energy-efficient, and scalable solutions that support the ever-expanding demands of AI, cloud computing, and hyperscale networks. 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 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G, 800G and the emerging 1.6T (or Terabits per second) port markets. Credo products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families inclu...