Ampleon is a global semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in

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(Gelderland),

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and the former RF Power business division of

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History

Ampleon was founded in December 2015 and was the former RF Power business of NXP Semiconductors, which had previously been sold to China's JAC Capital for US$1.8 billion in May 2015. In 2017, Ampleon was acquired by Aurora Optoelectronics Co. for US$1.09 billion. In 2022, Xichanweixin acquired Ampleon for US$1.48 billion.

Products

Ampleon offers various

LDMOS LDMOS (laterally-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor) is a planar double-diffused MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) used in amplifiers, including microwave power amplifiers, RF power amplifiers and audio power amplifie ...

Power Transistors, like the ART2K0TFES, LDMOS Avionics Power Transistors, meant to be used primarily in

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, as well as

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HEMTs, with their newest model CLL3H0914L-700 delivering an output of over 700W at 50V. Additionally, Ampleon began developing 5G

mmWave Extremely high frequency (EHF) is the International Telecommunication Union designation for the band of radio frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum from 30 to 300 gigahertz (GHz). It is in the microwave part of the radio spectrum, between t ...

chips for 5G base stations in 2018. In 2021, Ampleon released two new wideband LDMOS amplifier series, the BLP15M9S and the BLP15H9S series. Both series of devices deliver 100W and 30W, with the 15MS line additionally delivering 70W and the 15HS line offering an additional 10W output mode.

Locations

Ampleon has offices in

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, the US, the Netherlands,

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and

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. In 2016, they opened their own package-assembly-test factory in the

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, which runs on 100% renewable electricity. The plant, located in

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, Laguna, employs around 1,100 workers.

References

External links

*{{Official website, url=http://www.ampleon.com/ Semiconductor companies of the Netherlands Semiconductor device fabrication Government-owned companies of China Companies based in Gelderland Organisations based in Nijmegen