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Exploring the technology, trade-offs, and system-level impact of GaN-based power amplifiers that are slowly replacing vacuum tube technology used in satellite communications.

The world is becoming increasingly connected, driven by the exponential growth of data and the rise of transformative technologies like AI. This connectivity revolution is placing unprecedented demands on RF technologies, from the need for seamless cloud-edge data links to the continued evolution of 5G, 6G and beyond.

We are thrilled to announce that Falcomm has been accepted to Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 12 Cohort chip track. Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley’s premier startup accelerator and incubator program. Every six months, two companies are selected for inclusion in the Chip Track.

18 startups representing 11 countries and a wide range of industries will present their innovative solutions to accredited investors.

In 2015, Edgar Garay sent an email to a Georgia Tech professor asking to join his lab.“I want to go to your lab because I want to improve the efficiency of power amplifiers,” Garay wrote in his email to Hua Wang, Garay’s advisor and director of the Electronics and Micro-System Lab in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The first generation 30 GHz Dual-Drive™ power amplifier (PA) using a 45 nm silicon on insulator (SOI) process achieves 50 percent power-added efficiency (PAE) for a two-stage proof-of-concept, which is the highest efficiency ever achieved for a two-stage PA at 30 GHz on CMOS.

Falcomm, a semiconductor startup based out of Atlanta, Georgia, is working on a new type of power amplifier to cut energy consumption in hardware ranging from Wi-Fi networks and satellites to consumer products like smartphones and IoTs. The power amplifier, in the words of Edgar Garay, co-founder and CEO of Falcomm, is “the device that goes before the antenna in a radio” and is “responsible for conditioning and blasting the signal through the antenna.”

Falcomm is built on breakthroughs made over six years in the lab of founder and CEO Edgar Garay to revolutionize the power amplifier, a semiconductor found in devices from satellites to IoT to cellphones, that conditions and blasts the 1s and 0s from software through an antenna. Falcomm’s Dual-Drive PA combines ultra-efficient performance with an architecture that lends itself to production at scale.

Midtown has landed the headquarters of a semiconductor technology startup.Falcomm, which was founded in 2021 out of Georgia Tech, has signed a lease for 3,120 square feet of space at Midtown’s 1375 Peachtree. The buildout will begin this summer, according to an announcement from Falcomm.