10 Facts About Nordic Semiconductor

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Nordic Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, and focused on low-power wireless communications devices.

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Nordic Semiconductor was initially founded as Nordic VLSI in Trondheim, Norway in 1983.

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Nordic Semiconductor was formed by four post-graduates from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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In 2003 NVLSI was renamed Nordic Semiconductor, often known as Nordic Semi, to reflect the company's full focus on ultra low-power wireless devices.

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Since 2003, Nordic Semiconductor has maintained a clear focus on wireless products for the 2.

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Nordic Semiconductor maintains an especially dominant position in the wireless sports and fitness and wireless desktop peripheral markets.

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Nordic Semiconductor have products that support 2 main wireless technologies: short-range low-power wireless through Bluetooth LE, Thread, Zigbee, and proprietary 2.

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In January 2018, Nordic Semiconductor introduced and started sampling to selected lead customers their first LTE SoC, the nRF91 series.

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In November 2019, Nordic Semiconductor introduced and started sampling to selected lead customers their new flagship SoC containing dual-core ARM Cortex-M33 processors and a multi-protocol radio stack, the nRF53 series.

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NRF52 Series SoCs was the second series of short range wireless SoCs from Nordic Semiconductor, building on their experience from developing the nRF51 Series.

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