Newlans, a US-based fabless semiconductor company which specializes in reconfigurable broadband analog signal processing solutions, announced in February that it had closed a $15m series B funding round led by Intel Capital with participation from existing investors Paladin Capital and Lockheed Martin Corporation.
The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s development and commercialization of its “programmable duplexer” targeting front end radio frequency (RF) modules for 4G LTE mobile devices and small cells.
“This new funding is a significant milestone in realizing Newlans’ game changing vision for RF Front End solutions. The adoption of our Programmable Duplexer will reduce cost and time to market for 4G mobile devices with global LTE operation, as well as support the ever increasing demand for multi-band Carrier Aggregation,” said Dev Gupta, founder and CEO, Newlans. “We will use this funding to accelerate product commercialization, build-out our engineering and manufacturing team and engage early adoption partners and customers.”
“Newlans is pioneering new approaches to RF front end tuning,” said Stefan Wolff, Vice President, Intel’s Platform Engineering Group & COO of Intel’s Wireless Platform R&D. “They are truly redefining the way RF filtering is being implemented and we are pleased to see them apply this disruptive technology to mobile devices. We look forward to working together with Newlans to commercialize this critical technology.”