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The $1.5 Billion Chip Company Hiding in Your Car, Charger and Cloud
Diodes Incorporated built a sprawling semiconductor business by collecting the tiny parts engineers cannot afford to get wrong. Its hybrid factory model creates leverage in a boom, pain in a slowdown - and a useful playbook for operators who know when breadth beats glamour.
The Company That Turned a Dead Battery Into an 80-Year Business
For 79 years Schumacher Electric has sold the same quiet promise - your battery will not leave you stranded. The bet now is that the promise scales from a dead sedan to an electric car.
The AI Boom Has a Plumbing Problem. nVent Wants to Fix It.
Chips get the headlines. nVent makes the boxes, busways, power connections and liquid-cooling systems that help keep those chips - and the electrified world around them - running.
ePropelled
ePropelled is a New Hampshire-based engineering company that designs intelligent electric motors, motor controllers, starter generators and power-management systems for uncrewed vehicles across air, land and sea. Built on patented magnetics technology - including its Dynamic Torque Switching (eDTS) architecture that reconfigures motor windings on the fly to boost efficiency - the company supplies drone and UAV manufacturers, defense programs and industrial customers with lightweight, high-efficiency propulsion. Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Nick Grewal, ePropelled raised a $15M Series A in 2021 and has grown to roughly 110 employees with operations in the US, UK and India.
Movellus Inc.
Movellus is a San Jose semiconductor IP company that builds the invisible plumbing of advanced chips - the clocks, sensors, droop-response systems and on-die voltage regulators that keep high-performance silicon running fast without melting or missing a beat. Its flagship Aeonic platform reimagines traditional analog blocks as synthesizable, digital IP that can be dropped into an SoC design and ported across process nodes from 40nm down to TSMC 3nm. Founded in 2014 out of University of Michigan research, the company sells to teams building everything from ultra-low-power edge-AI devices to cloud datacenter and AI accelerators, and raised a $23M Series B in 2022.
Ferric, Inc.
Ferric, Inc. is a New York semiconductor company that builds integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) - complete DC-DC power converters with thin-film magnetic inductors built directly into the chip. By shrinking power conversion down to silicon that can sit inside a processor package, Ferric cuts board space and bill-of-materials while improving energy efficiency, targeting the punishing power demands of AI accelerators, high-performance computing, and hyperscale data centers.
Noah Sturcken
Noah Sturcken is the founder and CEO of Ferric, a New York semiconductor company building the world's smallest, most efficient power converters. A Columbia PhD who turned his dissertation into a company, he pioneered integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) that bury thin-film magnetic inductors inside the chip itself, shrinking power delivery by more than 10x. As AI processors grow ever hungrier for clean, dense power, Ferric's tech sits exactly where the bottleneck is - and partners like Marvell are now building it into custom AI silicon.
Celera Corporation
Celera is an Alameda-based analog semiconductor company using AI to automate the historically artisanal craft of analog IC design. Its ChipHUB platform combines proprietary machine-learning agents with decades of analog expertise to deliver custom analog and mixed-signal chips up to 10x faster than legacy vendors. In March 2025, Celera became the first company to sample an analog IC entirely designed by autonomous software.
GSME
GSME (Global Semiconductor Microelectronics) is a San Jose-based semiconductor solutions company offering customized silicon, RF and power management IC design, multi-project wafer services, and turnkey chip manufacturing for fabless customers building GPUs, CPUs, IoT and wireless products.
Farhat Jahangir
Farhat Jahangir is the Founder, President & CEO of GS Microelectronics (GSME), a San Jose-based semiconductor solutions company he founded around 2021-2022. With 25+ years in semiconductor manufacturing, operations, and chip design, he previously served as VP & General Manager at ON Semiconductor and SVP of Manufacturing at Quantenna Communications, where he helped steer the company through its 2016 IPO and a $1.1B acquisition. GSME raised a $35M Series B in January 2026, backed by Maverick Silicon, and has since made two strategic acquisitions - Sinble Technology Vietnam and Muse Semiconductor - to build a vertically integrated semiconductor services platform spanning chip design, MPW services, and advanced process node capabilities.
Otto Marroquin
Otto Marroquin is the Founder of Celera Corporation (operating as Celera Incorporated / Celera Semiconductor), an AI-powered analog semiconductor company headquartered in Alameda, California. Celera has built a patented platform - Nestos - that uses digital twins and behavioral modeling to automate analog IC design, cutting development cycles by up to 10x compared to traditional workflows. Backed by $23 million in funding including a $20 million Series A from Maverick Silicon in August 2025, Marroquin's venture targets the $70 billion analog semiconductor market with a platform that delivers custom analog ICs at a pace the industry has never seen before.