Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Ambarella Inc. develops video compression and image processing semiconductors, which enables high-definition or HD video capture, share and display.

Ambarella’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs integrates HD video processing, image processing, audio processing, and system functions onto a single chip, which helps in delivering exceptional video and image quality at high compression rates, differentiated functionality and low power consumption.

The company’s products are used in creating video content for wearable sports cameras, automotive aftermarket cameras, and professional and consumer Internet Protocol (IP) security cameras. Its solutions are also used in cameras incorporated into unmanned aerial vehicles, such as UAVs, drones or flying cameras. In the infrastructure market, Ambarella’s solutions help in managing IP video traffic, broadcast encoding and transcoding, and IP video delivery applications.

Notably, of all the aforementioned, Ambarella is well known for its sports camera technology. It produces a video processing chip that is the main component in a popular brand of action cameras.

Ambarella caters to the following end markets, namely Professional IP Security Cameras, Consumer IP Security Cameras, Automotive Cameras, Wearable Cameras including Sports, Commercial and Social Media and UAVs or Drones.

Ambarella sells its solutions to original design manufacturers (ODM) and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) through its direct sales force and logistics providers including Wintech Microelectronics. Sales through Wintech accounted for approximately 60% of the company’s fiscal 2020 total revenue.

For fiscal 2020, revenues were to $228.7 million. Sales to customers in Asia accounted for approximately 90% of total revenues in fiscal 2020.

For fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018, 98% of the company’s revenues were attributable to sales of its solutions into the camera markets and 2% of its revenues was attributable to sales of its solutions into the infrastructure market.

The company's primary competitors include Intel, Novatek, Omnivision, Qualcomm, Xilinx, NXP Semiconductors, NVIDIA and Texas Instruments among others.