Arctic Sand Technologies, Inc. Email Format
Semiconductor ManufacturingMassachusetts, United States11-50 Employees
Arctic Sand Technologies develops power conversion semiconductors that aim to improve efficiency while reducing size for power-management tasks in electronic systems. Its architecture blends intellectual property originating at MIT with standard low-cost CMOS manufacturing, enabling compact, high-performance devices. The company focuses on power conversion for LED backlighting and mobile processors in devices such as smartphones, tablets, and Ultrabooks, with potential expansion into servers, storage, and networking and with opportunities for integration into processors and ASICs. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company was founded in 2011 and maintains a second design center in Santa Clara, California, along with a sales office in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2017, Arctic Sand was acquired by Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., via its Peregrine Semiconductor subsidiary.