Ọsọ Semiconductor is an innovative fabless semiconductor company selling ultralow-power, low-cost, performance microchips to supercharge the antennas of the future. Its patentable ultra-low loss beamformer, featuring a Combiner-First™ architecture, provides massive power and cost savings for antenna manufacturers.

 
 

 

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Matthew G. Anderson

Matthew G. Anderson is founder and CEO of Ọsọ Semiconductor, an innovative fabless semiconductor company selling ultralow-power, low-cost, performance microchips to supercharge the antennas of the future. Previously, he was an electrical engineering and computer science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in low-power wireless microchip design. Anderson has more than six years of industry experience at Apple and other tech companies as well as a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and physics.

 

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Critical Need
The high cost and power consumption of electronic components in Electrically Steerable Antennas (ESAs) are greatly limiting growth for several high-impact wireless applications.

In the Satellite Communication (SatCom) antenna market, analysts and CEOs have publicly decried the high cost of ESAs as the biggest challenge facing the industry. Estimates indicate that wireless microchips represent the majority of total cost and of power consumption. This is a huge problem for ESA manufacturers and integrated satellite operators. And, it’s not just SatCom; 5G and automotive radar markets also use ESAs and could benefit from more cost- and power- effective solutions.

Technology Vision
Ọsọ Semiconductor’s ultra-low power wireless chips, featuring its Combiner-First™ architecture, allows customers to build high-performance ESAs that consume 75 percent less power and lower electronic component costs by 40 percent. This innovative startup is developing a patentable beamformer technology that is many times less lossy than state-of-the-art technology. It plans to combine this beamformer with advanced amplifiers to produce a front-end wireless chipset that is unlike anything in the market.

Potential for Impact
Low-cost, low-power antennas using Ọsọ microchips could thrust millions of Americans living in remote and underdeveloped areas into the digital economy. Democratizing access to Web3.0-speed connections could change the lives of hundreds of millions more people in the developing world, leveling the playing field. We can never know where the next Steve Jobs or Katherine Johnson will be born, but we do know that they will need to be connected to the networks of the future to reach their full potential. Ọsọ’s technology is critical to making that happen!