Helix Semiconductors
Semiconductor ManufacturingCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
Helix Semiconductors is a fabless semiconductor company based in Irvine, California, focused on developing energy-efficient digital power solutions. Its target markets span consumer electronics, computing, telecommunications, medical devices, and industrial equipment, where power conversion efficiency and heat management are critical. Operating in the semiconductor industry as a fabless design house, it aims to address global energy shortages and rising efficiency standards with compact, efficient power components. It maintains its corporate office in Irvine and has a small team. The company's flagship approach, named MuxCapacitor, is described as enabling high efficiency across the power conversion path within a compact package, reducing heat losses and simplifying manufacturing. The design also minimizes the number of different core ASICs manufacturers need to stock, and the 400V/180nm device is positioned as the smallest available power supply module. In March 2019 Helix Semiconductors announced the sampling of its MxC 300 AC-DC power IC, marking a concrete product milestone.