Ambiq is an early stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of our pioneering ultra-low power technology, we help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.

Eurotech is a global company focusing on embedded computers and Pervasive Computing, which combines three key factors: the miniaturisation of computers capable of processing information; their spread in the real world - in buildings and machinery, on board vehicles, on persons and in the environment; and their ability to network and communicate. Year founded: 1992 Revenue: $69 million (2014) BIT: ETH

AMBIQ MICRO’S SPOT PLATFORM

Redefining Energy Efficiency and Ultra-low Power. Rather than using transistors that are turned all the way "on", subthreshold circuits use the leakage of "off" transistors to compute in both the digital and analog domains. With most computations handled by using only leakage current, total system power consumption on the order of nanoamps is easily achieved.

APOLLO Ultra-Low Power Microcontrollers and SoC Solutions

The Apollo and Apollo Blue family of microcontroller and system-on-a-chip solutions represent a quantum leap forward in ultra-low power design. With unrivaled power numbers in both active and sleep modes, along with a high-performance processing engine, Apollo devices provide the most efficient processing solutions on the market. Apollo Blue products further integrate an energy-efficient Bluetooth 5 low-energy radio combined with improved communication features to enable always-connected, ultra-low power designs. At the heart of all Apollo products is Ambiq Micro’s patented Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT), which dramatically reduces energy consumption while still enabling abundant application processing power to add greater capability and extended life to battery-operated devices.

SPOT Timing Products: Ultra-low power RTCs

The Ambiq real-time clock is the industry leader in power management, functioning as an extremely low power "keep-alive" source for the system and bypassing the need for the main MCU to power down the device to conserve power. It monitors the system while the components are powered off for a user configurable power-up event while consuming only nanoamps of power.

Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) focus on transforming bits of data collected at the edge of a pervasive distributed system into actionable information and knowledge for business decision makers and end users. These transformations are driving the biggest change in industry since the steam engine! One of the most important aspects of IoT vision is that smart objects communicate effectively with each other and with applications residing in data centers or the cloud. Eurotech develops and offers the technical building blocks required to build distributed systems of devices and sensors to be effectively interconnected with IT infrastructures. Eurotech solutions are a combination of hardware, Firmware, operating systems, programming frameworks and external infrastructure that enable customers focus on their core activities.

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