Ferric Semiconductor Inc was founded by a team of engineers and materials scientists out of Columbia University to enable transference in the way power electronics are designed, based on exploiting new CMOS technology enhancements pioneered by the company. Key to this is a new inductor technology that allows dense, efficient, on-chip energy storage and allow scaling of smaller, lower-power and cheaper power electronics, based on Moores Law. Moores Law recognizes the industry trend of scaling the basic transistor of the complementary metaloxidesemiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit smaller and smaller, allowing more to be crammed onto chips at lower cost and higher performance. This has allowed smaller, cheaper, and lower-power microprocessors and communications chips that have enabled the plethora of mobile computing devices connecting to powerful cloud servers. Ferric has developed intellectual property in the areas of both basic materials technology and circuit design that enables integrated, high-efficiency power conversion. The firm has developed integrated inductors in CMOS technology with precisely engineered laminations of high-permeability magnetic material. The custom process allows the magnetic materials to be deposited as part of normal CMOS fabrication, which drives down the cost of production. This new class of integrated voltage regulators is expected to provide as much as 20 percent reduction in total power consumption for digital computing platforms, ranging from smart phones to data centers.
