Company Profile | January 3, 2001

Excelics Semiconductor, Inc.

Source: Excelics Semiconductor, Inc.
  • Company founded in 3/95 by Dr. R.T. Chen with 1 employee.
  • Completed facility construction and equipment installation in 11/95 and started process development in 12/95.
  • Completed 0.1-10 W, 1-50 GHz power FETs development in 3/96.
  • Started product shipment in 5/96 and Shipped 36K devices in 1996. Achieved more than 14,000 FET chips per month shipment in 1998.
  • Started MMIC development in 3/97.
  • Completed raising 2nd run capitals and changing company from "S" to "C" corporation in 10/97 to fund new equipment purchase/new product development and attract more talents to join the company.
  • Introduced new power FETs, EPA018A and EFA018A, operating over 70GHz in 7/98 and new super low noise FETs, EPB018A (0.5dB NF @12GHz) in 10/98.
  • Stared offering ceramic packaged FETs in3/98, and stared offering FETs in SOT89 & SOT23 plastic packages, MMICs and internally-matched power FETs in 5/99.
  • Increased facility from 2,500 ft. to 4,500 ft. in 12/97, and to 7000 ft. in 4/99.
  • Signed up Dura electronic sale as California reps. in 3/97 and 6 other regional sale reps. in U.S. in 1998. Also signed up 13 international sale reps. in 17 countries over Asia and Europe in 1999.
  • Increased customer base from 1 in 2/97 to 100 worldwide in 5/2000.
  • Currently ships over 60K decices per month.
  • Currently offers over 100 products (chips and packages ) ranging from discrete FETs, internally-matched power FETs, to MMICs, DC to 70 GHz, and LN to 10W.
  • Currently employed 21 full time employees (2 process engineers, 4 microwave engineers, 1 office manager and 1 marketing/sales Director).
  • Annual sales of $1.8M in 1999 and projected $7 M in 2000 .