Amphion

United Kingdom
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, BT9 6RY

Company profile

Amphion company profile

Belfast-based Amphion delivers high-performance solutions for video and image compression, wireless baseband, advanced encryption, and speech and channel coding with a comprehensive range of silicon-optimised products. Using proprietary techniques to directly map digital signal processing functions and algorithms into hardware, Amphion develops and licenses semiconductor intellectual-property (IP) cores that are close to optimal in terms of power, cycles, and area – computationally up to several orders of magnitude more efficient than equivalent functions implemented on a programmable processor

Business identity

Operating status
Closed
Company type
For Profit
Employee range
10,001+ employees
Founded
1984-01-01, Year

Headquarters

Postal code
BT9 6RY
Country code
GB
Continent
Europe

Capital profile

Funding and company signals

Funding stage
M And A
Funding rounds
3
Total equity funding
$15M
Last funding
Series C / $5M / 2003-06-18
Last equity funding
Series C / $5M
Investors
3
Lead investors
2
Founders
1
Exited on
2004-11-29

Founders and investors

Founders

Anssi Hyvönen

Lead investors

Act Venture CapitalApax Partners

Investors

Act Venture CapitalApax PartnersEnterprise Equity