Peregrine Semiconductor

pSemi
IndustrySemiconductor
Founded1990
FoundersRon Reedy
Mark Burgener
Rory Moore
HeadquartersSan Diego, United States
Key people
Tatsuo Bizen (CEO)
Number of employees
605 (2019)[1]
ParentMurata Manufacturing
Websitepsemi.com

pSemi (formerly Peregrine Semiconductor), is a San Diego–based manufacturer of high-performance RF (radio frequency) CMOS integrated circuits. A Murata Manufacturing company since December 2014, the company's products are used in aerospace and defense, broadband, industrial, mobile wireless device, test and measurement equipment and wireless infrastructure markets.[2] Their UltraCMOS technology is a proprietary implementation of silicon on sapphire (SOS)[3] and silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates that enables high levels of monolithic integration.

  1. ^ "San Diego's Peregrine gets new name, ships 4 billionth smartphone chip". 22 January 2018.
  2. ^ Hargrave, Marshall (Nov 14, 2013). "Peregrine Semiconductor: Misunderstood And Mispriced Apple Supplier". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
  3. ^ IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 9 Issue 1, Jan. 1988 High-quality CMOS in thin (100 nm) silicon on sapphire