WIZnet

WIZnet is a fabless IT company that provides Internet processors for the IoT.

WIZnet is the sole innovator to patent the hardwired TCP/IP technology into a microprocessor chip in 2001. Since then, a yearly average of 10 million WIZnet chips have been used in various embedded Internet devices worldwide.

Since establishing a loyal brand image with customers, WIZnet cooperates with 70 distributors worldwide with branch offices in USA, China, and Germany for competitive project marketing and faster technical support.

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. WIZnet’ chip and module are being used in the Arduino’s Ethernet Shield, and adopted in its clones.
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Almost all Arduino Ethernet shield and clone board includes Ethernet are embedding the WIZnet chips.  Please try to visit our Museum site.
WIZnet History
This is WIZnet’s history of the past 16 years.

The most significant achievement of the company is the Ethernet chip W5100 being integrated as Arduino’s official platform in 2008.

Arduino is the first original platform in the OSHW (Open Source Hardware) market.

The rapid spread of open source hardware and software not only enabled electric engineers but also DIY hobbyists to revolutionize the Makers movement, where products are innovated easier and faster than ever before.

Nowadays, leading MCU vendors like TI, STMicro, NXP, Intel, and ARM are attempting to penetrate the IoT market by developing their own platforms that are “Arduino-compatible.

More than 300,000 DIY hobbyists, early adopters, and power bloggers have used the Arduino Ethernet platform, which integrates W5100, in the past 6 years. This population has also generated numerous prototypes and tutorial-like UCC (User Created Content) in the Makers community. Here at WIZnet, we collect these remarkable contents and show them at www.WIZnetMuseum.com. We’ve also named these developers as ‘WIZnetians’ and crowd source them as members for www.WIZnetian.com via SNS.

To further expand the WIZnet brand relationship with customers, we started an academy of our own last year to educate embedded Internet platform-related studies. WIZnet plans to lead the Makers movement starting from Korea with the WIZnet academy students and OSHW community.