Energy Micro AS was a Norwegian

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 exclu ...

specializing in

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

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radios and RF Transceiver. Its EFM32 microcontroller families are based on the

Cortex-M0 The ARM Cortex-M is a group of 32-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Limited. These cores are optimized for low-cost and energy-efficient integrated circuits, which have been embedded in tens of billions of consumer devices. Thoug ...

or M3 processor core with a feature set for low power operation. It was acquired by

Silicon Labs Silicon Laboratories, Inc., commonly referred to as 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 manufac ...

in 2013.

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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Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is one of the top 10 semiconductor companies worldwide based on sales volume. The company's focus is on developing analog ...

. Co-founder and CTO Øyvind Janbu has experience from

, and

Tandberg Tandberg was an electronics manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway (production, sales and distribution) and New York City, United States (sales and distribution). The company began in the radio field, but became more widely known for their ree ...

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