With operations in San Francisco and Seoul, South Korea, Lion Semiconductor, Inc. is semiconductor startup designing power management ICs (PMICs) for mobile devices. Unlike today's PMICs that require many large PCB inductors, the firm has created a PMIC with zero PCB components and very small footprint. The firm has a patent-protected PMIC design. switched-capacitor architectures enabling outstanding wired and wireless fast-charging user experiences used today in numerous flagship and mid-tier smartphones. These solutions are integrated close to the battery and deliver higher efficiency and better heat dissipation for the rapidly developing fast-charging market. In 2021 the firm was acquired by Austin TX based Cirrus Logic (Nasdaq: CRUS) in a $335M cash transaction. Working in the low-power, high-precision mixed-signal processing solutions that create innovative user experiences for the worldâs top mobile and consumer applications, this acquisition by Cirrus Logic brings unique intellectual property and products for power applications in smartphones, laptops and other devices and accelerates growth of the companyâs high-performance mixed-signal busines
