Nordic Semiconductor
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| legal form | ASA |
| ISIN | NO0003055501 |
| founding | 1983 |
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Trondheim , Norway
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| management | Svenn-Tore Larsen ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 685 (2018) |
| sales | 193.1 million US dollars |
| Branch | semiconductor |
| Website | www.nordicsemi.com |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
Nordic Semiconductor (Nordic Semi) is a Norwegian fabless semiconductor manufacturer . The company, which was founded in Trondheim in 1983 , manufactures chipsets for short-range communication in the ISM band , for example for data transmission with wireless keyboards and mice . The company is a provider of integrated circuits in three main business areas: Bluetooth low energy , ANT and proprietary transmission methods in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The company pioneered the bluetooth low energy standard.
System-on-a-Chip (SoC) such as the nRF51 and nRF52 series from Nordic Semi consist of a bidirectional radio modem and a processor from the ARM Cortex-M series with integrated memory and various interfaces. In addition, the company also offers SoCs based on the Intel MCS-51 processor. SoCs from Nordic Semiconductor are used in the BBC micro: bit , among other things . Proprietary applications of the chips in the 2.4 GHz ISM band are also the Unifying Receivers for the radio connection of wireless mice and keyboards from Logitech .
In addition to the head office, there are regional offices in the USA , Hong Kong , South Korea and Japan .
history
Nordic Semiconductor was founded in 1983 under the name Nordic VLSI (NVLSI) by four former students of the Technical and Scientific University of Norway and in the early years focused on the development of mixed application-specific integrated circuits ( English mixed-mode ASICs ), which consist of analog and complex digital logic circuits according to customer requirements. In 1996 the company went public on the Oslo Stock Exchange and in 1998 the first radio transmission systems in the 433 MHz and 2.4 GHz bands were produced.
Since 2003 the focus has been on the development of complex and miniaturized radio transmission systems for short-range communication. These chips are then used, among other things, to connect computer peripheral devices such as wireless mice and keyboards to the PC or in the area of wearable computing .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management
- ↑ Number of employees, tweet from 4.1.2018
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2015
- ↑ Ultra low power wireless solutions (Products)
- ^ Low power short-range wireless products - Nordic Semiconductor. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
- ^ About Nordic Semiconductor. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .