Energy Micro AS, acquired by

Silicon Labs Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (Silicon Labs) is a fabless global technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, other silicon devices and software, which it sells to electronics design engineers and manufacturers in Internet of Th ...

in 2013, was a

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fabless semiconductor company Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or ''fab'') to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclus ...

specializing in

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chips. The company focused on ultra low energy consumption MCUs, SoC radios and

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. Its

EFM32 EFM32 Gecko MCUs are a family of mixed-signal 32-bit microcontroller integrated circuits from Energy Micro (now Silicon Labs) based on ARM Cortex-M CPUs, including the Cortex-M0+, Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4. Overview EFM32 microcontrollers have a m ...

microcontroller families are based on the

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or M3 processor core with a feature set for low power operation.

History

Energy Micro was founded in 2007. The team consists of semiconductor experienced personnel where the

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and

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Geir Førre previously founded

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, now a

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. Co-founder and CTO Øyvind Janbu has experience from

, and Tandberg. Co-founder and the VP of Engineering, Eirik Jørgensen, has previously worked for

Atmel Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016. Atmel was founded in 1984. The company focused on embedded systems built around microcontrollers. Its products included micr ...

. Co-founder and VP of Sales Operation, John Fjellheim, previously worked for

. In addition to the original founders the following individuals are now part of Energy Micro's management team; Andreas Koller joined from Texas Instruments as the VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Zalina Shaher joined as the VP of Operations and she has former experience from Motorola and Silicon Laboratories, while Phi Hong joined as the VP of Finance. Energy Micro's Board of Directors includ
Daniel ArtusiDaniel Hoste
both with several key positions in semiconductor companies. The Chairman is Torleif Ahlsand from Northzone Ventures, and Board Member Steinar Fossen from Investinor joined after the two VC companies invested a total of US$13 million in Energy Micro's first funding round. On June 7, 2013, Energy Micro was acquired by

.Silicon Labs to Acquire Energy Micro- A leader in low power ARM Corex-based microcontrollers and radios
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