XanIC is set to become Europe's leading commercial supplier of high-frequency components for applications in the telecommunications, aerospace/defence and homeland security markets.

Solutions for the latest communications and imaging systems need to operate at higher and higher frequencies, beyond the capabilities of current semiconductor technologies.

XanIC's technology is based on a 50 nm GaAs mHEMT process, developed by Glasgow University's Ultrafast team. The technology currently holds the world record for the highest frequency, lowest noise transistors.

Using the state-of-the-art fabrication facilities, at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre in Glasgow, the company designs and manufactures monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) operating in the frequency band 50GHz-500GHz