Silicon Labs history

In 1997, the year after Silicon Labs was founded, the market for MCUs was already robust and growing.

The first product, an updated DAA design, was released in the market in 1998.

During its early years, the company focused on developing an improved RF synthesizer for mobile phones that would cost less and take up less space. It introduced its first RF Chip in late 1999.

By 2006, our MCUs achieved an annual growth rate five times that of the industry, primarily due to the broadening of our portfolio, expansion of our sales network, and first-of-a-kind offering that fully integrated a very fast CPU and high-performance analog in an industry-leading footprint.

When the Cortex-M architecture was introduced in 2007, most of the industry was focused on power, in this case, measuring active and sleep current.

Since 2012, Silicon Labs has been increasingly focused on developing technologies for the evolving IoT market.

MCUs continued to fuel growth and in 2013, Silicon Labs acquired Energy Micro, a company that had the industry’s most energy-efficient portfolio of 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the industry-leading ARM® Cortex™-M architecture.

Our products with Secure Vault technology achieve Gold in the 2020 LEAP Awards and are the first system-on-a-chip (SoC) and module with a radio to earn PSA Level 2 security certification.