About Knowles Corporation
Knowles Corporation, based in Itasca, Illinois, makes precision components for hearing, medical, industrial and consumer devices. Its range includes balanced armature speakers, which are tiny electromagnetic drivers used in hearing aids and earbuds, along with specialty microphones, capacitors and RF filters. Unlike chipmakers that sell general processors, it focuses on small acoustic and passive parts. It sold its consumer MEMS microphone business to Syntiant, a deal that closed on 30 December 2024, and kept its other product lines.
Knowles Corporation was founded in 1946 and is based in Itasca, IL, United States. It is listed under ASICs, Custom Silicon. Its shares trade as KN on NYSE.
Compute Technologies
- MEMS Microphones
- Acoustic Devices
What Knowles Corporation 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.
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.
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