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| 2024 | Morse Micro established an operations centre in Taiwan, expanding their global presence to include a new location alongside existing centres in Sydney, United States, China, India, and the United Kingdom. |
| 2023 | The company expanded to employ 180 people across Australia, the United States, China, India, UK, Singapore, and Taiwan, with a strategic focus on expanding into the Japanese market through investor MegaChips. |
| 2023 | Morse Micro won the IoT Product of the Year award for a second consecutive year. |
| November 2023 | By November, the Singapore facility had produced over 2 million chips. |
| August 2023 | Morse Micro launched its Singapore facility for chip assembly and warehousing. |
| February 15 2023 | Morse Micro reached an estimated company valuation of US$700 million (over A$1 billion). |
| 2022 | Morse Micro won the global industry award for IoT Product of the Year for its security camera applications. |
| October 2022 | By late 2022, the market for Wi-Fi HaLow products began expanding, with particular interest from industrial IoT developers in the Japanese market looking to deploy thousands of sensor and actuator devices in warehouses. |
| September 2022 | Morse Micro announced its Series B investment round, initially A$140 million and later extended to A$170 million, led by Japanese company MegaChips with participation from existing investors. |
| January 13 2021 |
Superconducting computing
Announcement of MANA (Monolithic Adiabatic iNtegration Architecture), a 2.5 GHz prototype AQFP-based processor that demonstrated 80 times better energy efficiency compared to traditional semiconductor processors, including cooling requirements.
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| 2020 | The first generation of Morse Micro microchips went into production in Taiwan, marking a significant milestone for the company's WiFi HaLow technology development. |
| 2020 |
Josephson junction count
D-Wave and SkyWater Technology developed the Pegasus P16 superconducting quantum annealing processor with 1,030,000 Josephson junctions, using a 250 nm process technology
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| May 2019 | Morse Micro completed its Series A funding round, raising A$42 million from investors including Clean Energy Innovation Fund, CSIRO Innovation Fund, Ray Stata, Blackbird Ventures, and others. |
| 2017 | Australian Government provided seed funding to Morse Micro as the company developed the first WiFi HaLow silicon chip capable of securely connecting smart devices over long distances. |
| August 2016 | Morse Micro Pty Ltd was established as a private company by founders Andrew Terry and Michael De Nil, who previously worked together at Broadcom and aimed to create a microprocessor specifically for Internet of Things communication. |
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