Abracon

Summary

About

About Abracon

Abracon supplies electronic components for timing, frequency control, radio-frequency signal chains, antennas, power management, magnetics and wired connectivity. Founded in 1992 and headquartered near Austin, Texas, the privately held company serves communications, transport, industrial, medical, consumer, aerospace and defence equipment makers through global engineering, sales and distribution channels.

Its catalogue includes crystals, oscillators, real-time clocks, filters, antennas, inductors, transformers, supercapacitors and Ethernet components. Within automated machines, those parts can provide processor timing, wireless or satellite links, electromagnetic filtering and power conversion. Abracon supplies discrete components and application guidance to the equipment designer; it does not determine the robot's mechanical architecture, perception stack or autonomous behaviour. Company shipment and customer counts cover the full electronics business, not a robotics-only segment.

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Operations

Output & shipments

  • Shipments

    2022-08-04 - Abracon reported shipping 600 million electronic components annually across its full business. - all Abracon product families

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Orders & commitments

  • Order / commitment

    2022-08-04 - Abracon reported supporting more than 25,000 active customers globally across its full component business. - all Abracon markets

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Supply

Supply chain relationships

  • Raspberry Pi

    Outbound - electronics and robotics components - Current wireless Pico boards use an onboard antenna licensed from Abracon

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Team

  • Tony Roybal - President and Chief Executive Officer
  • Syed Raza - Chief Technology Officer - Named inventor on U.S. Patent 5,760,656 and an IEEE member.
  • Brian Holt - Chief Revenue Officer
  • Kevin Lemon - Vice President of Global Product and Marketing

Timeline

Events

  • 2024-03-05 - Partnership - Abracon and u-blox pair antenna and receiver for centimetre-level GNSS

    The antenna supports L1, L2, L5 and L-band correction services with a pre-filtered low-noise amplifier. Abracon identified precision agriculture, mobile robotics and UAVs as target applications. System designers receive a tested antenna-and-receiver pairing for centimetre-level positioning.

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  • 2022-07-06 - Acquisition - Genstar Capital acquires Abracon

    Tony Roybal became president and chief executive while former leader Michael Calabria moved to executive chairman. Genstar’s stated plan covered engineering, design, supply-chain capabilities and further acquisitions in Abracon’s core and adjacent markets. The transaction kept Abracon focused on frequency control, timing, inductors, connectivity, RF and antenna components across its global distribution network.

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Relations

Relationships

  • u-blox

    GNSS And Wireless Solution Partner - Abracon combines its antennas and services with u-blox wireless and GNSS modules for mobile-robot positioning.

  • Genstar Capital

    Private Equity Owner - Genstar Capital acquired Abracon and backs its organic and acquisition-led growth strategy.

Context

Comparable profiles

Shared workflows

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    workflow adjacency - Sensor Passive Component Supply

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    workflow adjacency - Sensor Passive Component Supply

  • TDK

    workflow adjacency - Sensor Passive Component Supply

Context tags

  • Communications component supplier - Stack Layer - Verified against official company materials and existing source-backed supply evidence during full-profile enrichment.
  • Sensor and passive component supply - Workflow - Verified against official company materials and existing source-backed supply evidence during full-profile enrichment.
  • Sensor passive component supplier - Peer Group - Verified against official company materials and existing source-backed supply evidence during full-profile enrichment.