Ferric Semiconductor
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded 📆 | 2012 |
| Founders 👔 | Kenneth L. Shepard, Noah Sturcken |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , United States |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Noah Sturcken (CEO) Kenneth L. Shepard (Chairman) |
| Products 📟 | Integrated voltage regulators, thin-film magnetic inductors |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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| 📞 telephone | |
Ferric Semiconductor, operating as Ferric Inc., is a private fabless semiconductor company headquartered in New York City that designs integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) using patented thin-film magnetic inductors deposited directly on CMOS wafers. The company was co-founded in 2012 by Kenneth L. Shepard, the Lau Family Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, and Noah Sturcken, whose Columbia doctoral research formed the technical foundation of the company.[1]
History
Ferric was founded in 2012 to commercialise thin-film magnetic inductor technology developed at Columbia University's electrical engineering department.[1] In 2014, EE Times named the company to its annual "Silicon 60" list of semiconductor startups to watch.[2] Early research and development was supported by non-dilutive United States government funding, including grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, United States Air Force, United States Department of Defense and United States Department of Energy.[3]
Technology
Ferric's flagship approach places thin-film ferromagnetic inductors directly onto silicon wafers using CMOS-compatible deposition processes, enabling voltage regulators to be co-integrated with compute die at package level. In a 2015 paper presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting, Ferric researchers, together with co-authors from TSMC, demonstrated CMOS-monolithic integration of the company's magnetic inductor technology.[4]
The company's Fe1766 product, publicly disclosed in 2024, delivers approximately 160 A of output current from 35.5 mm2 of silicon at approximately 93% efficiency, targeting placement adjacent to compute dies in advanced packages.[5]
Funding
Ferric had raised approximately US$41.1 million in cumulative private capital as of December 2024, including a US$32.11 million Series C round announced on December 2, 2024.[3]
Commercial engagements
On June 17, 2025, Ferric announced a collaboration with Marvell Technology on integrated voltage regulators for Marvell's custom XPU platforms serving hyperscaler artificial-intelligence accelerator programs.[6] Approximately nine months later, in March 2026, competitor Empower Semiconductor announced its own collaboration with Marvell for the same platform family.[7]
Ferric remained independent as of September 2026, following Analog Devices' US$1.5 billion cash acquisition of Empower Semiconductor, which closed on July 7, 2026, and consolidated the merchant IVR category around two vendors — one strategic-buyer-owned (Empower under ADI) and one independent (Ferric).[8][9]
See also
- Voltage regulator module
- Analog Devices
- Marvell Technology
- Kenneth L Shepard
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kenneth Shepard". Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
- ↑ "EE Times Silicon 60: Hot Startups to Watch". EE Times. 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ferric Semiconductor financials". CB Insights. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
- ↑ Sturcken, Noah; Davies, Ryan; Wu, Hao; Lekas, Michael; Shepard, Kenneth (2015). "Magnetic thin-film inductors for monolithic integration with CMOS". 2015 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). pp. 11.4.1–11.4.4. doi:10.1109/IEDM.2015.7409676. ISBN 978-1-4673-9894-7. Search this book on
- ↑ "Fe1766 Product Brief". Ferric Inc. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
- ↑ "Ferric News". Ferric Inc. 2025-06-17. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
- ↑ "Empower and Marvell Announce Collaboration on Next-Generation Integrated Power Delivery Solution for AI and Cloud Platforms" (Press release). Empower Semiconductor. 2026-03-19. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
- ↑ "Analog Devices Completes Acquisition of Empower Semiconductor" (Press release). Analog Devices. 2026-07-07. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
- ↑ Kumar, Aditya (2026-09-03). "IVR 2026: Empower, Ferric, and the AI Power Delivery Category". adikumar.co. Retrieved 2026-09-04.
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