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Semiconductor ManufacturingUnited States51-200 Employees
Fortemedia, Inc. is a United States–based semiconductor manufacturing company headquartered in Silicon Valley, with global operations and offices in Asia and a workforce of 51–200 employees. The company focuses on developing voice processing technologies and semiconductor products that enhance voice communication for both human-to-human and human-to-machine interactions, particularly in challenging acoustic environments. Fortemedia pioneered Small Array Microphone (SAM) voice processing technology and commercialized it for mobile-phone communications, including enabling NTT DoCoMo’s dual-microphone array speech processing mobile phone, the RakuRaku III, in 2006. Its ASIC devices and solutions—SAM, SAMSoft, and ForteVoice—have been widely deployed across numerous commercial systems, devices, and applications. The company maintains a patent portfolio with more than 200 filings worldwide and over 75 patents issued, and recent news references its MEMS microphone systems launched in 2022.