About Elmos Semiconductor
Elmos Semiconductor is a German chip company headquartered in Dortmund that designs integrated circuits mainly for cars. Its products include chips for sensors, motor control and lighting, and mixed-signal ASICs, which are custom chips combining analog and digital circuits for a specific customer. The company has moved to a fabless model, meaning it relies on outside foundries for manufacturing. Its focus is vehicle electronics, so it is an automotive chip supplier and not a developer of general purpose or AI processors.
Elmos Semiconductor was founded in 1984 and is based in Dortmund, Germany. It is listed under Custom Silicon, ASICs. Its shares trade as ELG.DE on ETR.
Compute Technologies
- Automotive ICs
- Mixed-Signal
What Elmos Semiconductor works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
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.
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