Menlo Micro

Traditionally, electrical engineers have to choose: high-power switches that are unreliable and slow, or high-speed, high-precision switches that can’t handle that much power. Menlo Microsystems’ Ideal Switch shakes up that…

Menlo Micro switches on an opportunity for its tech to be in every device you touch

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Menlo Micro, a startup bringing semiconductor tech to the humble switch, is ready for its closeup

Sixteen years ago a group of material scientists and engineers at General Electric banded together to reinvent the circuit breaker. Now, Menlo Microsystems, the spin-off commercializing that technology, is ready to bring its revolutionary new switches to market, with huge implications for everything from 5G technologies to quantum computing. Based in Irvine, California, Menlo Micro…

3:02 am PDT • October 14, 2020
Menlo Micro, a startup bringing semiconductor tech to the humble switch, is ready for its closeup