The company was established at the University of Michigan by professors Dennis Sylvester and David Blaauw and postdoctoral researcher Scott Hanson, who serves as the chief technology officer.[1] Two MBA students, David Landman and Philip O’Niel, also contributed as co-founders.[2] Initially named Cubiq Microchip, Ambiq Micro spent several years developing its technology before creating its first commercially viable prototype.[2]
Early on, the company participated in several business plan competitions. In 2010, it received awards at the Michigan Business Challenge and the DFJ-Cisco Global Business Plan Competition.[3] It also secured pre-seed funding from the University of Michigan’s Frankel Commercialization Fund.[1]
Ambiq commercializes Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT), a design method that operates transistors near or below their threshold voltage to reduce active and sleep-mode power consumption,[5][6] thereby enabling on-device edge AI.[7] Its product line includes microcontrollers and systems-on-chip, called Apollo,[1][8] as well as real-time clocks, called Artasie,[9] which are used in smartwatches, medical devices, and industrial and agricultural sensors.[4][10]
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