WIRELESS INNOVATIVE MMIC SL

Their core work

WIMMIC is a Spanish deep-tech SME that designs Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) chips for satellite communications. Their core innovation is consolidating multiple RF functions — typically spread across several chips — into a single MMIC, reducing cost and size for Ku-band phased-array antennas used in Satcom-on-the-Move (SOTM) terminals. Their work spans both civil and defense-adjacent markets, covering mobile satellite terminals on vehicles, vessels, and aircraft, as well as emerging satellite constellation ground infrastructure. They are a component-level specialist: their value is not systems integration but the hard semiconductor IP that makes smaller, cheaper, higher-performance satellite terminals possible.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In 2018 WIMMIC focused on a single, precise hardware milestone: collapsing multiple MMIC functions into one chip for Ku-band SOTM phased arrays, a miniaturization challenge with strong commercial logic. By 2020 the scope expanded to satellite constellations — a direct response to the rapid growth of LEO networks from operators building global coverage infrastructure. The Security sector tag on the second project also marks a deliberate move toward defense-grade SOTM applications alongside civil use, broadening the addressable market without changing the core chip expertise.

WIMMIC is tracking the LEO constellation boom, repositioning their chip-level expertise as essential infrastructure for both mobile terminals and next-generation satellites — a high-growth segment where specialized MMIC design is a hard technical barrier that few SMEs can clear.

How they like to work

WIMMIC leads every project as coordinator rather than joining others' consortia, reflecting a company that owns its IP and sets its own research agenda. Their network is extremely compact — one partner in one country across both projects — which is typical for deep hardware companies doing component-level R&D where critical IP stays internal. Partners are likely brought in for testing, integration, or market validation rather than shared technical leadership.

WIMMIC has worked with only one unique partner across both projects, entirely within a single country. This hyper-concentrated network is consistent with an IP-protective hardware SME running focused feasibility studies rather than broad multi-partner technology consortia.

What sets them apart

WIMMIC operates in one of the most specialized niches in European aerospace electronics: MMIC chip design specifically for mobile satellite communications. Very few SMEs at this scale combine RF semiconductor design capability with system-level understanding of phased-array SOTM platforms. Their Canary Islands base, while geographically peripheral, does not constrain them — satellite and defense electronics markets are qualification-driven and procurement-driven, not location-driven.

Highlights from their portfolio

• MultiSingle-WIMMIC
  Claimed the world's first multifunctional single MMIC for Ku-band SOTM phased arrays — a miniaturization milestone that anchors the company's core IP identity.
• SATELLITE IA
  Largest project by EC funding (EUR 109,500) and the first to explicitly target satellite constellation hardware, marking a strategic expansion into the LEO market.