Formed in 1960 in Newbury Park, California, Semtech has grown to become a multinational technology innovator, enabling solutions that fuel a safer, more productive, more sustainable, and socially focused planet. Semtech offers a variety of products, including LoRa, a long-range, low-power networking platform; receivers and transmitters; touch and proximity devices; wireless charging; and power management solutions. Semtech's balanced portfolio of semiconductor products is used by original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers for automotive, broadcast equipment, data centers, passive optical networks (PONs), industrial, Internet of Things (IoT), LCD TVs, smartphones, tablets, wearables, and wireless infrastructure applications.

Semtech's diverse portfolio of semiconductor products and algorithms serves a range of commercial applications with varying functionality, size, and power levels. Original equipment manufacturers and their customers rely on Semtech high performance integrated circuits (ICs) and intellectual property to enable today’s most cutting-edge applications, such as mobile devices, data centers, industrial equipment, and the Internet of Things. Often, several Semtech components are included in a solution’s bill of materials, working harmoniously to provide superior electrostatic discharge (ESD) and surge protection, power management, connectivity, and sensing.

Semtech product platforms include:

Circuit Protection • Wireless Charging • Smart Sensing • Power Management • Signal Integrity • Wireless RF • Broadcast Video • Professional AV • High Reliability

Semtech is committed to manufacturing high performance products that exceed industry standards, are technically superior to competitive technologies and provide value and satisfaction to our customers. Through the establishment and review of key quality performance measures and objectives, we remain focused on quality assurance and continuously improving our organizational performance and capabilities, producing high quality products, holding our subcontractors and suppliers to high quality standards, and selling high value products at the lowest possible cost. One of Semtech's main objectives is to raise environmental standards in electronics. Semtech support the elimination of lead in electronic products and have implemented various environmental initiatives to promote a greener industry. 

Semtech places a high importance on delivering superior design support, and believes it differentiates us in the market. Customers have access to highly skilled field applications engineers (FAEs) who provide customized design support and consultation. Their collaborative interaction accelerates bring up time of boards or proof of concepts, with the goal of shortening your time to revenue for your new product introductions. Complementing our FAE team is Semtech’s wealth of downloadable resources, including datasheets, application notes, user guides, and firmware to assist with prototyping and production. These tools have been created by engineers for engineers.

Executive Leadership

Mohan Maheswaran

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Maheswaran joined the Company in April 2006 as President and Chief Executive Officer. He was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intersil Corporation (“Intersil”), a company that designs and manufactures analog semiconductors, from June 2002 until March 2006, responsible for managing and overseeing the design, development, applications, and marketing functions for Intersil’s Analog Signal Processing business unit. From June 2001 to May 2002, he was Vice President of Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Strategy for Elantec Semiconductor, Inc., a company that designed and manufactured analog integrated circuits before its acquisition by Intersil in May 2002. He was Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Strategy of Elantec Semiconductor from January 2001 to June 2001. Mr. Maheswaran has also been employed by Allayer Communications, a communications integrated circuit startup company acquired by Broadcom Corporation; IBM Microelectronics; Texas Instruments Incorporated; Hewlett-Packard Company; and Nortel Communications.

Mr. Maheswaran holds a BSEE from Surrey University and a MBA from Henley Executive Management College, both of which are located in the United Kingdom.