What Advanced Microwave does

Advanced Microwave, Inc. is a privately held manufacturer of analog, RF, microwave, and signal processing components and subsystems, founded in 1995 and headquartered in Milpitas, California in a dedicated facility of over 5,000 square feet. The company designs and builds standard catalog products and built-to-print custom devices covering a frequency range from DC to 40+ GHz, including mixers, amplifiers, converters, detector log amplifiers, threshold detectors, pulse modulators, networked radar receivers, and passive components. Its core technology is a proprietary thin-film hybrid process combined with a "building block" modular architecture and a soft-board/ceramic hybrid packaging technique that the company positions as enabling some of the smallest form-factor microwave subsystems in the market, suitable for space- and weight-constrained airborne and shipboard applications.

The company serves two principal verticals: military/defense electronics (airborne and shipboard applications such as periscopes, radar receivers, and ECM systems) and commercial markets (wireless communications, fiber optic, and test and measurement). Manufacturing is conducted under ISO-9001 quality systems with screening compliant to MIL-STD-883, MIL-STD-202, and MIL-STD-810, and the company is ITAR registered and RoHS compliant, qualifying it to participate in U.S. and allied defense supply chains. Named customers include Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, BAE Systems, L3Harris, Elbit Systems, Mercury Systems, Textron Aviation, and Apple, indicating a customer base dominated by large defense primes and systems integrators with selective commercial exposure.

Advanced Microwave operates a sales-led, direct go-to-market model with no e-commerce or third-party distribution. All sales are conducted via a Request for Quotation (RFQ) process through sales representatives and contact forms, with pricing not publicly disclosed. The company sells standard catalog products as one-time hardware purchases with potential repeat orders and offers custom design and built-to-print manufacturing services for customer-specified requirements in small or large quantities. Revenue figures are not publicly disclosed, the company has no known subsidiaries, no known institutional investors, no disclosed funding rounds, and no publicly traded securities.

Name

Advanced Microwave

Legal name

Advanced Microwave, Inc.

Website

https://advmic.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Advanced Microwave is a privately held Milpitas, CA manufacturer of RF and microwave components and subsystems (mixers, amplifiers, detectors, pulse modulators, radar receivers) built on thin-film hybrid technology, serving military/defense primes and select commercial customers via direct RFQ-based sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

RF and Microwave Components and Subsystems

NAICS

Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334220), Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (334515)

SIC

Radio & Tv Broadcasting & Communications Equipment (3663)

akta.pro primary industry

Microwave & RF Signal Chain ICs (Mixers/Detectors/Attenuators) (HDAHAMAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Military Power Supplies, RF/Microwave Components & Ruggedized Electronics (IMABAGAJ)

Keywords

• RF microwave components
• Thin-film hybrid manufacturing
• Microwave subsystem design
• Defense electronics components
• Built-to-print manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Milpitas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Microwave Component Sales: Sale of standard and custom microwave components including amplifiers, mixers, converters, detectors, and passive components. Products sold as one-time purchases with potential for repeat orders.
2. Built-to-Print Custom Manufacturing: Custom design and manufacturing services for customer-specified requirements in small or large quantities

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Advanced Microwave, Inc. designs and manufactures analog, RF, microwave, and signal processing components and subsystems covering DC to 40+ GHz, including mixers, amplifiers, converters, threshold detectors, detector log amplifiers, pulse modulators, networked radar receivers, passive components, and comb generators. The company produces both standard catalog products and custom built-to-print designs using thin-film hybrid and microstrip manufacturing processes for commercial and military/defense customers.

Product overview

Advanced Microwave, Inc. is a manufacturer of analog, RF, microwave, and signal processing components and subsystems. The company offers two main product lines: Commercial Products for wireless, fiber optic, and test/measurement applications, and Military Electronics Products using state-of-the-art thin-film technology in ultra-small packages. The product portfolio includes mixers (double/triple balanced, modulators, multipliers), amplifiers (wideband, low-noise, power), detector/log amplifiers (DLA, ERDLA, SDLA, SDLAC series), threshold detectors, pulse modulators, networked radar receivers, converters, passive components, and comb generators. Products are available in both standard configurations and custom-built-to-print designs. The company also provides OEM and in-stock product options.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Double Balance Mixers (M3X01, M3X05, M3XX4X, M3X08) Double balanced mixers covering 2.0-46.0 GHz for LO/RF with IF frequencies from DC to 20 GHz and conversion loss of 5.0-15.0 dB, for commercial and military RF/microwave systems.
• Triple Balance Mixers (M3X02, M3X06) Triple balanced mixers covering 2.0-26.0 GHz with IF frequencies from 0.1-8.0 GHz and conversion loss of 6.5-13.0 dB.
• Modulators / Image Reject Mixers (MQ3X31, MI3X32, MQ3X33, MI3X310X, MI3X31) IQ modulators and image reject mixers for communication band applications covering 1.7-32.0 GHz.
• Multipliers / Doublers (MD3X4X, MD3X5X) Frequency multipliers and doublers covering input frequencies from 2.0-17.0 GHz with output frequencies from 4.0-34.0 GHz.
• Amplifiers Wide-band amplifiers covering 10 MHz to 42 GHz, including high power (up to 10 watts), wideband, and wideband low-noise variants.
• Detector/Limiters Detector limiters covering 0.1 to 40 GHz for protection and detection applications.
• Converters Up/down converters and single sideband modulators for frequency conversion applications.
• Threshold Detectors High-speed threshold detectors for signal detection applications.
• Detector Log Amplifiers (DLVA, ERDLVA) Detector log video amplifiers providing wide dynamic range signal detection and logging capabilities.
• Passive Components Power dividers/combiners and 90-degree couplers for signal distribution and combining.
• Networked Radar Receivers Network-enabled radar receivers for distributed radar system architectures.
• Pulse Modulators High-speed pulse modulators for radar and communication transmitter applications.
• Comb Generators (MUL036, MULR518-1) Frequency comb generators producing multiple harmonically-related frequencies from a single input for test and measurement applications.
• Ultra-Small Detector Log Amplifiers (DLA, ERDLA Series) Ultra-miniature detector log amplifiers using thin-film technology, including DC coupled, pseudo AC coupled, and switchable variants covering 0.05-40 GHz with dynamic ranges from -77 to +10 dBm for airborne and shipboard applications.
• Military Pulse Modulators (SPST0XXX, SPST0XXXA) Miniature pulse modulators with thin film hybrid technology covering 2-18 GHz with very fast response time, 55-80 dB isolation, and TTL-controlled internal switch driver.
• Networked Radar Receivers (RRNS10, DFRNS60) Networked radar receivers with RJ45 Ethernet connectivity. RRNS10 provides single video input with regulated +/-12V outputs; DFRNS60 provides 6 video inputs for direction-finding applications with 90-260V AC input.
• Military Threshold Detectors (TH Series, DA Series) Ultra-small high-speed threshold detectors covering 0.5-40 GHz with dynamic ranges from -65 to +10 dBm, including standard, high-sensitivity, and super high-sensitivity variants with propagation delays as low as 3 nsec.
• Custom Design and Built-to-Print Manufacturing Services Custom design and built-to-print product manufacturing in small or large quantities based on customer specifications, leveraging thin-film hybrid and microstrip processes for both commercial and military customers.

Named customers9 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Analog Devices: Analog Devices is a broad incumbent with a deep RF/microwave signal-chain portfolio (mixers, detectors, amplifiers, converters) serving the same defense and test/measurement customer set as Advanced Microwave at significantly greater scale.
• Mercury Systems: Mercury Systems is a broad defense electronics incumbent and also a named Advanced Microwave customer; it builds RF/microwave subsystems and embedded processing for aerospace and defense, vertically integrating many of the same components AMI supplies.
• MACOM Technology Solutions: MACOM is a broad incumbent in RF/microwave semiconductors and modules (amplifiers, mixers, switches, converters) targeting defense, aerospace, and commercial wireless — broader portfolio but overlapping signal-chain content with Advanced Microwave.
• Qorvo: Qorvo is a broad incumbent providing RF system-level solutions including amplifiers, converters, and switching for defense, aerospace, and 5G; much larger scale but overlapping defense RF customers and signal-chain products.
• Skyworks Solutions: Skyworks is a broad incumbent in RF/wireless components, with presence in defense/aerospace (formerly isolated via the Silicon Labs infrastructure deal) and broader commercial wireless exposure — adjacent but overlapping in RF signal-chain capability.

Direct peers

• Marki Microwave: Marki Microwave is a closely comparable direct peer: a privately held manufacturer of high-performance RF/microwave signal chain components, especially mixers, couplers, baluns, and detectors, sold to both defense and commercial wireless customers — nearly the exact product/customer overlap with Advanced Microwave.
• Herotek: Herotek is a direct peer: a small specialized manufacturer of RF/microwave detectors, limiters, frequency multipliers, and switching products serving defense and commercial test/measurement customers, with a similar component-level catalog and custom capability model.
• Mini-Circuits: Mini-Circuits is a direct peer in catalog RF/microwave components (mixers, amplifiers, frequency multipliers, detectors, splitters/combiners) and built-to-print custom subsystems, serving commercial and defense markets with a direct sales/RFQ model analogous to Advanced Microwave's.
• Planar Monolithics Industries (PMI): PMI is a direct peer: a niche designer/manufacturer of RF/microwave components and integrated subassemblies (amplifiers, mixers, switches, limiters, detectors) for military EW, radar, and space applications, with comparable catalog + custom positioning.

Emerging players

• Spectrum Control (formerly API Technologies): Spectrum Control is an emerging/comparable peer producing RF/microwave components, filters, and integrated assemblies for defense, space, and industrial applications, overlapping with Advanced Microwave's defense signal-chain product lines.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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