Technology

Our chips are the first to effectively integrate silicon CMOS with other compound semiconductors monolithically, offering the functionalities needed to enable the next great technological leaps across multiple key sectors.

Our technology is already being applied across:

PixelatedLightEngine™ for Integrated Lighting

Benefits
  • >10-100x increase in pixel density over normal lighting.
  • Tailored light beams for optimal lighting conditions.
  • >4x lifetimes through built-in redundancy.
Sample end products
Specialty Lighting
Spotlights
Luminaires
Automotive Lighting
About

Our ICs combine the the required silicon electronics with LEDs in one solid-state and reliable chip. It takes away the current need to assemble LEDs with silicon integrated circuits through packaging and finally delivers on the early promise of LED lighting, offering a much longer product lifetime than an incandescent bulb.

PixelatedLightEngine™ for MicroDisplays

Benefits
  • >100x brightness vs. OLED for clearer images/video.
  • >8MP resolution for sharper images/video.
  • >5x frame rates for smoother images/video.
Sample end products
VR Headsets
Smart Watches and Wearables
AR systems
About

Our ICs merge silicon and compound semiconductors, replacing the thousands of separately manufactured LEDs, silicon chips and interconnects that currently make up wearable displays. With more efficient light-emitting devices in a single chip, we are able to change the form factor of wearables, improve display performance, increase battery life, decrease cost and make possible game-changing new product innovations.

Digitally Controlled Power Amplifiers

Benefits
  • >50% power increase.
  • ~50% improvement in energy efficiency.
  • 75% reduction in footprint.
Sample end products
Automobile Vehicles
Smart Watches
Smart Phones
5G and Beyond Communications
About

Our ICs integrate more efficient high-frequency transmitting compound transistors with silicon integrated circuits to transform 5G and 6G wireless communication. The breakthrough is in enabling digital control of these efficient compound semiconductor transistors. It replaces the digital silicon transistors designed for computing that become power-hungry when used for wireless communication at these rates. The power loss with our single chip can be reduced by more than 50% and frees designers from current packaging constraints, opening up a new wave of innovation with improved flexibility, affordability and performance.

Phased Arrays

Benefits
  • >50% power increase.
  • ~50% improvement in energy efficiency.
  • 75% reduction in footprint.
Sample end products
5G and Beyond Communications
Smart Phones
Cell Towers
Satellite Communication
About

Our ICs enable phased arrays that overcome the issue of wireless signals being largely wasted in an attempt to reach a distant transmitting point and the resultant loss of signal and power. By better focusing the transmittance without expensive packaging. This solves significant design innovation and cost limitations for developers creating products that require very high wireless bandwidth rates and frequencies to communicate with computation.

Meet the future at the nsc Innovation Lab

The nsc Innovation Lab is a playground of creativity and a laboratory for exploration. It's the space where we collaborate, design and physically produce breakthrough integrated solutions to the world's greatest chip challenges - setting in motion the next wave of technological innovation in extended reality, mobility, smart lighting, telecommunications and wearables.
It's also home to our on-going research efforts as we seek to bring together the people and knowledge needed to identify new opportunities to reignite momentum within the silicon industry.