olufsen industry class d audio electronics genre r & d company founded 1999 founder karsten nielsen and bang & olufsen a s headquarters kgs . lyngby denmark key people peter sommer ceo kristian ougaard cto tomas schi nning director of operations products b2b sound solutions audio amplification solutions owner bang & olufsen a s number of employees 40 q3 2011 1 parent bang & olufsen website www.icepower.dk icepower a s is a danish development production and sales company specialising in class d amplifiers for audio applications . icepower develops business to business solutions for end producers . contents 1 history 1.1 current operations 2 customers and products 3 external links 4 references and notes history edit in 1994 karsten nielsen began to write a ph.d. dissertation audio power amplifiers techniques based on efficient power conversion 2 at the technical university of denmark as part of a project in collaboration with bang & olufsen ; his findings were applied in the beolab 1 active loudspeakers in 1997 and he was awarded a ph.d. in 1998 . bang & olufsen subsequently hired nielsen . 3 in 1999 a new r & d company ; a joint venture between nielsen and bang & olufsen was formed with the aim of designing integrated amplifiers components of powers up to 1000w as a discrete electronic device . the company was initially called bang & olufsen powerhouse . 3 in 2001 the company was renamed bang & olufsen icepower and the company s first commercial product was released the a series . in 2002 the company enters collaboration with sanyo semiconductor ; a major manufacturer of integrated amplifier chips . in 2003 the icepower asp product range was launched and the company began a partnership with samsung telecommunications for the development of a dedicated amplifier for mobile phones . 3 between 2003 and 2008 the companies product range was extended to include audio amplifier components for mobile phones home audio active speakers and amplifiers car audio and home theatre multichannel audio . in 2008 bang & olufsen bought out nielsen s share in the company making it a wholly owned subsidiary of bang & olufsen . at the same time nielsen left the company . 4 current operations edit as of 1 june 2012 bang & olufsen icepower had changed its company name to icepower a s and is now a 40 employee firm involved in applications of class d amplifiers . the company s engineering development is carried out in its danish headquarters in kongens lyngby . customers and products edit initially the companies products were only found in niche markets i.e. high end audio components . during the first decade of the 2000s the company entered the mass market of consumer electronics with 40 % of samsung mobile phones using its ip and over 100 million channels of amplification 5 shipped . current customers seem to include alpine aston martin asus audi bowers & wilkins fender musical instruments corporation eclipse by fujitsu ten elipson genz benz jeff rowland martinlogan pioneer ps audio rotel seymour av vazari audio samsung as well as bang & olufsen . 6 the company produces a standard product range as well as undertaking custom design work and licensing its intellectual property to mass market manufacturers . 7 external links edit icepower a s bang & olufsen references and notes edit cvr audio power amplifier techniques with energy efficient power conversion ph.d. thesis karsten nielsen technical university of denmark 30 april 1998 phd thesis sectionalised at company website . a b c icepower our history icepower.bang olufsen.com bang & olufsen takes over icepower 28 july 2008 icepower.bang olufsen.com 1 channel of amplification in a mono aural amplifier icepower about icepower.bang olufsen.com icepower solutions icepower.bang olufsen.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title icepower & oldid 704954824 categories audio amplifier manufacturersaudio equipment manufacturerselectronics companies of denmarkmanufacturing companies of denmarkcompanies based in lyngby taarb k municipalitydanish brandsscience and technology in denmarkhidden categories use dmy dates from february 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 14 february 2016 at 17 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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