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Amalfi Semiconductor

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475 Alberto Way; Suite 200 Los Gatos, CA 95032 USA
T 408 399 5360 F 408 399 5362 www.amalfi.com

General Information

Year Founded: 2003 Number of Employees: 50 - 100

Business
Amalfi® Semiconductor was established in 2003 with the vision to develop a new generation of very high-performance radio silicon for the multi-billion dollar cellular handset market. Recognizing power consumption in most handsets is heavily driven by power amplifier efficiency, the company focused its advanced engineering capabilities on developing a new generation of power amplifiers that use standard bulk Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The result of this effort is the patented Amalfi AdaptiveRF™ CMOS power amplifier architecture, which offers significant performance, cost and integration advantages over today’s power amplifiers using GaAs or InGaP process technologies.


Technology
AdaptiveRF™ is an advanced silicon architecture that enables the development of CMOS power amplifiers for cellular handsets. This advanced technology has overcome the efficiency performance barrier that CMOS has experienced in the past. The AdaptiveRF™ architecture has proven to achieve better Power Added Efficiency (PAE) than leading GaAs power amplifiers under real-world operating conditions of reduced output power, low battery voltage and antenna mismatch. This greater PAE results in increased talk time and sets a new performance standard for cellular phones. Also, by leveraging high volume, low cost CMOS foundry capacity, AdaptiveRF™ provides manufacturers with a lower risk, lower cost solution when ramping into high volume production.

Products
Amalfi Stratos™ Product Family represents the industry’s first single-chip CMOS power amplifier devices that meet the high-performance power efficiency standards of GSM/GPRS/EDGE mobile phones. These high-performance power amplifier chips reduce battery electrical current requirements, enabling cellular manufacturers to deliver phones with up to 20% greater talk time, thinner designs, and additional functionality. The Stratos™ chips also improve manufacturability and lowers system cost.

Market Type

• Other
• RF/Wireless Semiconductor

Product Type

• Amplifiers

Fabrication Technologies Required

• CMOS

Foundry Partners

• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC)