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AKM Semiconductor, Inc. (AKMS) is a
AKMS manufactures mixed-signal IC's and devices utilized in
Official AKM Semiconductor website
List of AKM Part Datasheets
{{Open Handset Alliance Members Electronics companies of Japan Manufacturing companies based in California Semiconductor companies of the United States Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Companies based in San Jose, California
semiconductor
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manufacturer headquartered in San Jose, California
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. It is subsidiary of Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) based in Tokyo, Japan
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.
AKM Semiconductor, Inc. was founded under AKM, which is one of the core operating groups under the umbrella company, Asahi Kasei Corporation electronics business group (Tokyo Stock Exchange (3407.T). AKMS comprises the devices and electronic materials sector of the AKM group.
Products
AKMS manufactures mixed-signal IC's and devices utilized in video processing In electronics engineering, video processing is a particular case of signal processing, in particular image processing, which often employs video filters and where the input and output signals are video files or video streams. Video processing t ...
, mobile communications
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, and optical networking
Optical networking is a means of communication that uses signals encoded in light to transmit information in various types of telecommunications networks. These include limited range local-area networks (LAN) or wide-area networks (WAN), which cr ...
for the consumer, personal communications, and automotive markets.
Some applications of AKM's chips are as components in DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...
players, digital mixers, digital audio workstations, and other digital audio applications. Their products include codecs
A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. ''Codec'' is a portmanteau of coder/decoder.
In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or d ...
, audio DACs, low-power audio for portable devices, ADCs, DVD-Audio
DVD-Audio (commonly abbreviated as DVD-A) is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio uses most of the storage on the disc for high-quality audio and is not intended to be a video delivery format.
The st ...
, stereo and multichannel sound, DSD, and S/PDIF transmitters and receivers.
;Product Categories
*''Audio Products''
*''Video Products''
*''Electronic Compass''
*''Mobile Communication Products''
Incidents
On 20 October 2020, a fire broke out at the company'sNobeoka
is a city located in the north of Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city has an estimated population of 119,521 and a population density of 138 persons per km². The total area is .
History
The city was officially founded on F ...
semiconductor fabrication plant
In the microelectronics industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant (commonly called a fab; sometimes foundry) is a factory where devices such as integrated circuits are manufactured.
Fabs require many expensive devices to function. Estimate ...
, lasting 3 days and impacting the high-end audio industry.
References
External links
Official AKM Semiconductor website
List of AKM Part Datasheets
{{Open Handset Alliance Members Electronics companies of Japan Manufacturing companies based in California Semiconductor companies of the United States Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Companies based in San Jose, California