About Transphorm
Transphorm designs and makes gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors, which are switches used in power supplies and converters. GaN can switch faster and waste less energy as heat than conventional silicon switches, so power adapters and converters built with it can be smaller. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Goleta, California, near UC Santa Barbara. Renesas agreed to acquire it for $339 million in January 2024, and the deal was announced as complete on 20 June 2024.
Transphorm was founded in 2007 and is based in Goleta, CA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, Custom Silicon.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
What Transphorm 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.
