The crows are coming home to roost, so to speak.
Mobius Microsystems started in Ann Arbor in 2004. Founder Dr. Michael McCorquodale based the company on his dissertation research when he was at the University of Michigan.
A year and a half later Mobius moved to Detroit, where it has been for three years. Until now. Mobius has decided to move back to the city where it all started.
"We had some trouble recruiting in Detroit," says Eric Marsman, Senior IC Design Engineer. "Plus more than half of our employees live closer to Ann Arbor."
Currently, Mobius employees 24 – 50 percent of which are UM grads. The move to their new digs, according to Marsman, will bring an additional five to ten more employees.
"Ann Arbor has a great talent pool," he says. "Which is another reason we moved back."
Mobius deals in
semiconductors. Which sounds pretty high-falutin, but really, it's not. Nearly everything electronic runs because of semiconductors. Oftentimes they take the form of quartz crystals. For instance, your computer's clock keeps time because of these crystals. It's less about mystical properties than it is about frequencies.
What Mobius is striving for is a smaller, faster, more reliable semiconductor to run these crystals out of business. And, according to Marsman, Mobius is well on its way.
They have just released a clock chip that could revolutionize the way computers keep time. And frighten primitives.
Source: Eric Marsman, Senior IC Design EngineerWriter: Terry Parris, Jr.
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