Nitronex raises $7,500,000

Nitronex, a Durham semiconductor company, has received $7.5 million in new funding.  The company makes high-powered transistors that can operate at high temperatures. They are used in cell phone towers, car dashboard displays, DVD lasers and other applications.  Nitronex is the only fully-qualified supplier of Gallium Nitride-on-Silicon RF power transistors for wireless communications applications. Our SIGANTIC® manufacturing process delivers GaN-on-Silicon RF power transistors to meet the increasing power, frequency and bandwidth requirements found in the communication infrastructure and military markets.