FCI Connectors

15/07/2025

Who still remembers that we "AREVA" once participated in a yacht race?

A little known part of the rule on penalty turns costs Areva Challenge a hard-fought win over Team Shosholoza.

15/07/2025

Calling all former Berg employees, who remembers the good old days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berg_connector

15/07/2025

Calling all former Burndy employees, who remembers the good old days?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burndy

15/07/2025

Welcome to all former FCI employees from around the world, especially those who were part of its golden era.

We believe your time at FCI holds countless memories, some joyful, some challenging, but all deeply meaningful chapters in your life journey.

Whether it was the friendships forged, the lessons learned, or the milestones achieved, those moments have shaped who you are today.

If you still have photos, stories, or memorabilia from those unforgettable days, we warmly invite you to share them here. Let’s reconnect, relive the spirit, and honor the legacy of FCI together.

Let’s reconnect. With warm regards,

15/07/2025

AREVA building at La Defence Paris

15/07/2025

The facts of AREVA building, headquarters of FCI.

Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.

15/07/2025

FCI is a leading manufacturer of connectors. They employ 12,000 people across 30 countries and had sales of 935 million euros in 2009. FCI is a major player in the connector industry, known for designing and manufacturing a wide range of products, from basic to complex, for various markets including automotive, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. They are also recognized as the first and only European connector manufacturer in the industry's top ten.

30/05/2012

May 12th, 2012 by Josh Linden
Storage Connectivity Solutions [STA 2012]

At this week’s SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase, Molex, Amphenol, FCI and TE were eager to demonstrate a broad spectrum of new intermateable 12Gb/s box-to-box and inside-the-box SAS interconnects. Product demonstrations put the spotlight on MultiLink SAS, a new 12Gb/s SAS quad-port connector, and double-density Mini-SAS HD interconnectors with 8x interfaces. These configurations deliver the highest port density now available for switches and low-profile PCIe cards.

These latest enterprise storage solutions feature SAS connectivity end-to-end throughout the data center. Box-to-box interconnects benefit from the highest density switches in the industry that also maximize the performance of PCIe add-in faceplates. Device-to-midplane solutions on display enabled interconnectivity between dual-port SAS devices, quad-port and MultiLink SAS devices, HDDs and SSDs, and legacy SAS devices. The STA show also saw new SAS-intermateable midplane-to-controller-to-enclosure I/O solutions.

As SAS achieves longer interconnects with passive copper, active copper, and optical connections (seen in SAS Goes the Distance) it is becoming easier to design flexible SAS-connected storage infrastructures that combine 4x and 8x I/Os with legacy SAS implementations to better manage growth.

STA demonstrators highlighted the diverse ecosystem of SAS interconnects which has emerged as the technology improves and is adopted throughout the enterprise. With analysts pointing towards continued growth for SAS solutions, IT administrators and CTOs are keeping a close watch on the specifications of these new interconnect solutions.