Congatec
Main office in Deggendorf

Congatec is an embedded systems vendor from Deggendorf (Bavaria, Germany). Primary products of the company are industrial-grade motherboards and computers-on-module.[1]

The company has subsidiaries in the United States, Taiwan, China, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Czech Republic. In 2018 its sales amounted to 133 million US dollars.[1]

Company history edit

Congatec was established on 9th December 2004 by thirteen former employers of embedded manufacturer Jumptec[2] (which itself became part of Kontron in 2002).

After five years of operation, the sales of the company amounted to EUR 27 million, and the staff increased to 77.[3]

In 2014 the company reached 64 million EUR in sales and became a leader in computer-on-modules in the EMEA area.[4]

In 2018 Congatec acquired a virtualization vendor Real-Time Systems.[5]

Manufacturing and customers edit

Congatec is a fabless company, the actual production is done by foundries.

Some customers of Congatec include B&R, Amazon, Bosch Rexroth, General Electric, Google, Rohde & Schwarz, Samsung and Siemens.

Products edit

As for 2019, the company offers the following products:[6]

IPO attempts edit

As early as 2015, Congatec was aiming for a listing on the American Nasdaq stock exchange, but the project was cancelled due to the weakening capital market.[7] The IPO announced in mid-September 2019 for the end of 2019 in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange was also postponed to 2020 one month later.[8][9]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "About congatec". congatec.com.
  2. ^ "congatec AG celebrates 10th anniversary". congatec.com. 9 December 2014.
  3. ^ "congatec AG celebrates 5th anniversary". congatec.com.
  4. ^ "congatec announces record sales of EUR 64 million". 24 February 2015.
  5. ^ "congatec AG acquires Real-Time Systems GmbH". 27 February 2018.
  6. ^ "All products". congatec.com.
  7. ^ "German semiconductor company congatec Holding withdraws $60 million US IPO". NASDAQ. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Congatec will an die Börse". boerse.ard.de (in German). Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  9. ^ "congatec verschiebt Börsengang auf 2020" (in German). Passauer Neue Presse. 2019-10-14.

Category:Fabless semiconductor companies Category:Companies based in Bavaria Category:Companies established in 2004