Headquartered in Arizona, IceMos has manufacturing in Northern Ireland, research in Arizona and a design center in Tokyo.
Its wafer products include active layers attached to handle wafers using wafer-bonding.
“The investment, which values IceMos at a market capitalisation of $110m post money, will enable IceMOS to increase strategic manufacturing in Northern Ireland, device design capability, applications engineering, marketing and sales worldwide as it starts preparation to launch mSJmos platforms,” according to IceMos. “IceMOS will be expanding its global workforce to more than 100 employees on post funding.”
MSJmos combines silicon mems with CMOS super-junction power mosfet structures “resulting in power mosfets that deliver dramatic semiconductor energy efficiency”, claimed the company. “The merging of mSJMOS structures and mems manufacturing techniques presents a silicon-based technology that can compete with wide band-gap devices at 650, 750, 900 and 1,200V.”
“Products based on this technology represents a new class of semiconductors,” said IceMos founder and chairman Samuel Anderson (pictured).
“IceMos’ new architecture for silicon semiconductors represents break-through technology for power management systems in sectors such as electric vehicles and data centers,” said 57 Stars MD Bernard McGuire.
At the same time, Niall Lyne has become IceMos COO and executive v-p of sales.
“Niall, an industry veteran, held numerous positions with Analog Device, Intersil and more recently Renesas Electronics,”said IceMos. “In this position, he will be responsible for optimising company objectives, operations and revenue growth.”
The Series E investors attended the September 2023 Northern Ireland Investment Summit in Belfast, a collaboration by the Department for Business and Trade, the Northern Ireland Office and Invest Northern Ireland.
