About Ampleon
Nijmegen-based maker of RF power transistors, with LDMOS and GaN-on-SiC products for cellular infrastructure, avionics and RF energy uses. It was spun out of NXP RF Power business in December 2015. Xichanweixin acquired it in 2022 for US$1.48B.
Ampleon was founded in 2015 and is based in Nijmegen, Netherlands. It is listed under ASICs, Analog Computing. Reported funding is $1.48B acquisition (Xichanweixin, 2022).
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
- Analog Computing
What Ampleon works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
Analog Computing
Analog computing represents numbers as continuous physical quantities, such as voltage or current, rather than as strings of 0s and 1s. The physics of the circuit does the calculation. For example, Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law let a grid of resistors multiply and add numbers at once.
