TUSK IC is a pioneer in advancing mmWave IC technology across a range of sectors. Incorporated in 2018 in Belgium, TUSK IC is privately held, developing designs and products for the automotive, industrial, medical, and satcoms segments.
The company was originally established as a spin-out from the renowned mmWave Research team at KU Leuven (University of Louvain), with initial development projects for a Belgium Government agency.
TUSK IC quickly branched out, designing highly reliable RF ICs for the automotive industry; these ICs meet stringent reliability and environmental requirements, carried forward to subsequent adaptations for chemical industry monitoring systems and medical devices. Today, customers from across the world turn — and return — to us for the design of automotive radar, industrial sensing, connectivity, 4D imaging, quantum, and other high-frequency applications.
Starlink has opened up a new market of broadband internet access for use cases and locations that were left behind. Think of coverage in rural areas, border regions, on-the-move, in-flight, etc.
Many regions are adding their own constellations, move to frequency bands with more capacity and need User Terminals compliant with their infrastructure and designed for consumer mass-markets.
With the explosive growth of SatCom, the industry is now entering a new phase of exploration: towards higher frequency bands -like Ka-band- with faster data rates, towards convergence with 5G, and with a wave of upcoming innovations.
TUSK IC is stepping up by addressing one of Europe’s most pressing needs in strategic autonomy: we deliver innovative chips for User Terminals compliant with the new deployments of Ka-band space infrastructure -in all regions- but focusing on Europe’s IRIS2 constellation, as beachhead.