NOKIA GROWTH PARTNERS LEADS GROWTH FINANCING INVESTMENT IN SUMMIT MICROELECTRONICS
"Mobile phones no longer just make voice calls, but connect to the Internet and act as our mobile
camera, music player, navigation device, and even our mobile television. This growing functionality
raises the importance of power management. Nokia Growth Partners is pleased to lead this
investment round. Summit has assembled a world-class team specializing on these issues and has
built unique products to help meet the rising power performance demands of mobile device
manufacturers,” said Rob Trice, of Nokia Growth Partners.
"Having the world’s largest user of power management ICs help fund our growth is very exciting,”
added Pat Brockett, Summit’s President and CEO. "It reinforces our belief that Summit’s technology
will become pervasive in consumer and battery powered applications. The challenges of increasing
complexity and battery run-time, coupled with tighter time-to-market pressure, have rendered the
traditional ‘hard-wired’ analog building-block approach obsolete.”
“Summit’s programmable power management technology is ideal for portable and handheld systems
with applications ranging from intelligent battery management to powering next generation organic
LED (OLED) displays,” continued Brockett.
“The unique combination of integration and programmability enables sophisticated power
management functionality and unprecedented flexibility in design and production while preserving
the lowest bill-of-materials cost.”
About Summit Microelectronics: “Programmable Power for a Digital World™”
Summit Microelectronics is the leader in flexible, highly integrated power management solutions
combining precision power regulation with sophisticated digital control in a single chip.
The Company’s devices are found in a variety of consumer, communications and computing
applications.
Non-volatile digital programmability enables high integration and system flexibility in a single chip -
impossible with conventional “hard-wired” analog power IC’s - enabling sophisticated functionality and
dramatically reducing design time.
Additionally, high integration reduces the bill-of-materials yielding the lowest total system cost and
smallest size. Summit solutions address the biggest challenges facing OEM developers today:
increasing system functionality, performance and complexity accompanied by shrinking development
time cycles.
About Nokia Growth Partners
Nokia Growth Partners (www.nokiagrowthpartners.com) is a global mid- to late-stage venture capital
fund headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Nokia Growth Partners focuses on investments in information and communications technologies ranging from components to services, with an emphasis on mobility. Nokia Growth Partners is a standard limited partner venture capital fund with one investor, Nokia.