Table of

Contents
Foreword 4 China Fabless
to Watch 55
Silicon 100:
China Fabless 100 Ranking
The Class of 2023 7
2023 Reveals Three Major
AI Dreams and China’s Trends in China’s IC
Startup Surge Impact Design Industry 56
the Silicon 100 8
Top 10 Analog Companies 58
Company List by Category 14
Top 10 Sensor Companies 61
Geographic Mapping 16
Top 10 AI Companies 64
EE Times Lists 100
Top 10 Memory Companies 67
Emerging Companies
to Watch in 2023 18 Top 10 PMIC Companies 69

Video Interview 54 Top 10 Power Device

Companies 72

Top 10 MCU Companies 75

Top 10 Processor
Companies 78

Top 10 Wireless Companies 81

Top 10 Communication
Companies 84

Masthead 87
3
Silicon
 Foreword
By Anne-FranÇoise Pelé

H ardware is hard, but hardness is gradually softening.

The past year has seen an extraordinary leap in AI capabilities, from natural lan-
guage processing to computer vision, tinyML, autoML and edge computing. In the
meantime, chipmakers are turning to AI to design chips faster, less expensively and
more efficiently. Deloitte Global anticipates that the world’s leading semiconductor
companies could spend $300 million on in-house and third-party AI tools for chip de-
sign in 2023, and it expects the tally to increase by 20% a year over the next four years,
to exceed $500 million in 2026.

EDA vendors have been touting the integration of AI into their design tools, though
there is still progress to be made toward the promised goal of easier hardware. Today,
generative AI seems to be eliminating the “hard” from hardware projects, and Deloitte
Global expects the growth in advanced AI tools for chip design to be more than twice
that of the overall EDA category and more than triple the growth rate of chip sales
over the next five years.

The advent of ChatGPT and similar generative AI tools has taken the venture capital
world by storm. Despite the slowdown in VC funding overall, vast amounts of cash
have started flowing in for generative-AI ventures. Microsoft reportedly injected $10
billion in ChatGPT owner Open AI, building on its historic investment in 2019. Palo Alto,
California-based generative-AI startup Inflection AI raised $1.3 billion in a fresh round
of funding led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and Nvidia. An-
thropic, a San Francisco-based provider of large language models, completed a $450
million Series C round led by Spark Capital with participation from Google.

Money follows money.

And innovation calls for regulation.

The AI regulatory landscape is still in its infancy, but the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act
has set a precedent for AI governance globally. The draft act has adopted a risk-based
approach—unacceptable risk, high risk, limited risk and minimal or no risk.—for the
development, deployment and use of AI. Concern abounds about how such policies
may hamper AI progress, but aren’t constraints a catalyst for innovation?

The Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model is no longer confined to the U.S. From Mu-
nich to Tel Aviv, Leuven to Shanghai and Toronto to London, technology innovation
hubs, business incubators and accelerators are springing up, providing fertile ground
for entrepreneurial ideas to grow.
The EE Times Silicon 100, now in its 23rd edition, has identified where technical expertise
meets continuous innovation and has mapped the geographic patterns. This year’s edi-
tion has also expanded its technological categorization to 24 areas, ranging from materi-
als and packaging at a fundamental extreme to quantum computing and security at the
highest level of abstraction.

Nonetheless, the Silicon 100 is not a ranking of the “best startups” in each category. It
goes beyond subjective factors and provides capital investors, entrepreneurs, business
executives and market analysts with key indicators of continued startup growth.

Peter Clarke, a technology and business journalist who has compiled and curated the
EE Times Silicon 100 list since its inception in 2004, follows economic oscillations and
decrypts the cyclical and countercyclical investment strategies that drive short- and me-
dium-term returns. Clarke provides a who’s who in the rise of electronics and semicon-
ductor startups and connects the dots between technology innovations and business
opportunities.

In the course of his analysis, he addresses key questions such as:

. Can generative AI reenchant hardware design?

. Is quantum winter coming? Myth or reality?
. If unicorns exist, why is Europe failing to produce more of them?
. Why are SiC and GaN opening the next chapter of electronics?
. Is Silicon Valley lying dormant or showing signs of a rebound?
. What is the secret behind China’s startup boom?

The Silicon 100 is now inseparable from the China Fabless 100. For the third year, the
AspenCore China analyst team has waded into the domestic IC design ecosystem and
ranked fabless semiconductor companies based on the organizations’ technical attri-
butes and their growth potential on a national and global scale. The China Fabless 100
is now a critical component of the rational decision-making process for investors and
market professionals.

The past 12 months have been a period of macroeconomic turbulence. Geopolitical ten-
sions, energy market imbalances, higher-than-expected inflation and abrupt spikes in
interest rates have raised concerns that an actual recession might be imminent. With or
without market contraction, the electronics and semiconductor industry has proved to
be resilient and resistant to change. The next 12 months will certainly be no exception, as
a number of world firsts continue to hit the high seas of innovation.

Anne-FranÇoise Pelé
is editor-in-chief of
EE Times Europe.
Silicon

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AI Dreams and
China’s Startup
Surge Impact the
Silicon 100
By Peter Clarke
T his is the 19th year that EE Times has
published its list of emerging compa-
nies and the fourth year since we expanded
the Silicon 60 to become the Silicon 100.
That change was prompted by an explo-
sion in technology startup generation, and
despite the economic and geopolitical
difficulties of the past year, the startup
boom continues.
Information and
communications
technology is the “new
oil” driving world affairs.
The volume of emerging companies contin-
ues to increase as the business model pio-
neered in Silicon Valley has spread around
the world with sometimes gradual and
sometimes rapid take-up.
For the purposes of the Silicon 100, we take
a relatively narrow view of the definition of
technology. The list favors companies that
have at least one foot in the hardware camp.
That said, it is clear technology complexity
is creating a trend toward companies that
offer a full-stack solution, from application-
specific silicon to firmware, from software
to algorithmic intellectual property.
Three key trends characterize the electron-
ics and semiconductor startup sector over
the past few years: high levels of interest
in artificial intelligence, a significant surge
in Chinese startup activity and an increase
in startup formation globally across the
breadth of the electronics and semiconduc-
tor domain.
The first trend has prompted the formation
of a large number of AI-focused startups, as
admissions to the Silicon 100 demonstrate.
The high levels of activity in China are also
reflected in the Silicon 100 but may yet come
to grief on the rocks of U.S.-China trade ten-
sion and economic decoupling.
And the increasingly broad wave of startup
activity is in line with the reality that
dawned on politicians as stress fractures
appeared in the global semiconductor sup-
ply chain: Information and communications
technology, and the deep technology
behind it, is the “new oil” that is driving
world affairs.
The cohort
For this 23rd iteration of the emerging start-
ups list, 40 companies have been brought
on to the list and 60 retained from v22. This
is a relatively high rate of churn compared
with the historical turnover average of a
third of the list each year. The admissions
numbers in 2021 and 2022 were 29 and 31,
respectively.
One factor in the rising rate of admissions
is the maturing of the large cohort of start-
ups that were introduced when the list
became the Silicon 100. A second factor is
the increased rate of overall startup activity,
as mentioned above. Silicon 100 v23 brings
the total number of companies admit-
ted to the list since v1.0 was published in
April 2004 to 606.
Venture capital
One of the long-cycle trends with which
hardware-focused startups have had to
contend has been the ebb and flow of ven-
ture capital.
In the optimistic 1990s, venture capital
started to pile into technology startups,
including semiconductor companies. It
seemed as if almost any idea sketched out
on the back of an envelope could get funded.
This period coincided with the rapid adop-
tion of the internet. But after the dot-com
bubble burst, VC pulled back from technol-
ogy more generally and from hardware in
particular. When the VCs returned, they did
so with a focus on software and internet-
mediated services with the hope of creating
the next Google or Facebook.
It was left to a few technology-led VC firms
and strategic investors, such as Intel Capital,
to keep deep-technology entrepreneurship
moving forward.
A broader set of VC firms returned to the
semiconductor and electronics field in the
middle of the last decade. Some big bets
were made in the AI field and have created a
generation of hardware unicorns—privately
held startups valued at more than $1 billion.
At the same time, there was investment
away from the digital leading edge where
both the investments and the barriers to
market entry could be lower. That shift,
together with the globalization of the
startup ethos, has produced a few years of
explosive growth in startup numbers.
Nonetheless, VC input appears to have
turned down in the last year. The global
economy’s lingering struggles with post-
pandemic ills like high inflation and low
growth have slowed the development
of some business opportunities and
increased the dwell time of some startups
as loss-making entities. This can strike at
valuations and at companies’ ability to raise
more capital.
It seems inevitable that some startups will
run out of cash before they can achieve sig-
nificant cash flow, and with so many play-
ers in the AI space, there will likely be a
culling of the field as market-leading appli-
cations coalesce around a few AI hardware
platforms.
We have not reached that point yet, but
Mythic Inc. (Austin, Texas) provides a good
Silicon
case study. Mythic has been a pioneer of
analog computation for AI and spent sev-
eral years on the Silicon 60 and then the
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Silicon 100. It was saved from collapse
in March 2023 by a $13 million funding
round that included European investor
Hermann Hauser, who was instrumental in
the formation of processor developer Arm.
Mythic’s technology is part of a trend
toward AI at the edge, where power effi-
ciency is key. This is a second front in AI
and runs in parallel with a ramping of per-
formance for AI in the data center.
Mythic, founded in 2012, raised $165 million
in 10 years before running out of runway
with investors in November 2022. It was
forced to restructure and lay off staff.
Co-founder and CEO Mike Henry left the
company, which is now led by former CTO
Dave Fick. Mythic reckons that the lat-
est investment will help it bring its next-
generation M2000 chips to market in 2024.
Mythic has survived to fight another day,
but other startups will inevitably go through
similar struggles. And not all will find a white
knight to save them.
There has certainly been less unicorn
creation in the past year, along with fewer
initial public offerings (a successful IPO is a
potent indicator of a startup’s maturation).
As is often the case, however, China is an
exception.
China’s startup surge
The U.S. has been gradually building pres-
sure on China in the past few years by
imposing stricter export controls on tech-
nology products, and those sanctions have
affected the semiconductor sector more
than most others. One symptom of the
fevered political climate has been the start
of China’s decoupling from much of the rest
of the world.
At the same time, China’s extensive VC sys-
tem has been engaging in a phenomenal
pulse of startup formation. Some of that VC
network controls state funds, and some of it
is private. But the impact of state-controlled
funding of startups is to produce a focusing
effect. Where the state is an investor, private
equity may be more confident to follow,
believing that the investment may receive
some protection or that the championed
entities will not be allowed to fail.
Earlier in 2023, the Stiftung Neue
Verantwortung (SNV) think tank in
Berlin, Germany, provided a global analysis
of semiconductor startup formation for the
2020–2022 period. The analysis found the
number of startups in China that raised
funds in the period was 3× the number in
the U.S. and 6× the number in the European
Union. The analysis is unlikely to have been
comprehensive and does not track aggre-
gate monetary values, but the size of the
sample gives a high degree of confidence
in the general trends revealed. The authors
point out that of the 25 startups in its sam-
ple that received the highest amounts of
documented funding, 20 were Chinese.
In other words, Chinese venture capital,
often encouraged by state-controlled funds,
is investing heavily and widely in semicon-
ductor and technology startups.
Some of the hundreds of Chinese semicon-
ductor startups included in the SNV study
are entirely domestic, but others have global
aspirations, and some are already multina-
tional. The majority are fabless chip com-
panies that need foundries to manufacture
their chips. And where the field of endeavor
is processors, FPGAs, memory, ASICs and
the like, access to leading-edge manufac-
turing is necessary to be competitive.
That could be an issue for many of these
companies, as U.S. restrictions can pro-
hibit access to foundries like Samsung,
TSMC and Intel. China’s leading foundry,
Semiconductor Manufacturing Interna-
tional Corp. (SMIC), is capable of producing
14-nm FinFET chips and is trying to ramp a
7-nm manufacturing process. But U.S. sanc-
tions look set to prevent Chinese chip man-
ufacturing from progressing any further.
It wasn’t the peak
Back in 2021, we asked if we had seen the
peak number of AI chip companies on the
Silicon 100. We noted that the number of
companies we had classified as AI startups
was flat with the previous year. We also took
the position that the sector was becoming
overcrowded and that a shake-out was des-
tined to happen.
That culling hasn’t yet happened, however;
on the contrary, the number of AI-oriented
startups “in the wild” continues to increase
rapidly, a trend reflected in the latest
Silicon 100. The AI frenzy that has accom-
panied public access to generative AI in
the form of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s
Bard is likely to drive the creation of still more
AI startups, some of which could appear on
the Silicon 100 in years to come.
Analysis by technology
category
For the last few iterations of the Silicon 100,
we have been classifying the list by technol-
ogy. Such a division is inevitably arbitrary, as
many companies operate in multiple areas.
This year, we have subdivided some previ-
ous categories to provide a more useful
view of a universe that runs from materials
and packaging to quantum computing and
security.
While changes in the less populated cat-
egories are not sufficient to determine a
trend, moves in some of the larger catego-
ries—or collections of categories—provide
points of note.
Silicon
For example, in v22 of the Silicon 100,
there were 22 startups listed under the
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GPU-to-AI category. This year, we split Other activities in the Silicon 100 are
the category into three: “Photonic round areas like gallium nitride and
Acceleration,” “GPU-to-Data–Center AI” and silicon carbide for power semiconductors
“Edge AI.” There are 27 startups across these and around microLED displays and pho-
categories. It should also be noted that tonic computation.
machine learning is being used close to sen-
sors and in audio and video processors. One Analysis by geography
could therefore argue that Silicon 100 mem- Silicon 100 startups by headquarters
bers Useful Sensors, Alpsentek, Reexen and location (Source: EE Times)
SiMa also operate in the AI sector.
v20 v21 v22 v23
It is also notable that the busiest cat- U.S 48 46 44 38
egories are the newly created “Edge AI” China 14 19 20 21
and “General-Purpose Processors, MCUs,
North America 53 51 49 42
Networking, FPGAs,” which each received
Europe 22 20 18 23
five startups fresh to the Silicon 100.
Israel 7 7 10 7
China 14 19 20 21
Getting AI processors designed into the
Rest of World 4 3 3 7
data center is becoming increasingly diffi-
cult for startups, and given the breadth of
Our analysis of Silicon 100 startups by geog-
applications, working at the edge or in more
raphy shows a declining proportion of start-
application-specific use cases can present a
ups from California and the U.S.
lower barrier to entry.

China crept forward, to 21, but is still behind

The general-purpose processor category,
the U.S. and North America and may be for
with 10 members, is the same size as last
many years. It is interesting to note that
year, but the five admissions replacing five
China, which was ahead of Europe in v22,
retirees reflect continued activity around
has fallen behind in v23. Again, we stress
the RISC-V open processor standard.
the likelihood that these are noisy signals,
but the takeaway is that China now rivals
Quantum computing is also an area with
Europe in its level of activity within the
high levels of startup activity around the
Silicon 100. Another notable observation is
world. But the category moved forward
that Israel continues to punch far above its
slowly, rising from five representatives in
weight by population.
v22 to six in v23. This could just be a noisy
signal, but it likely indicates that quantum
China has certainly adopted the entrepre-
computing is a long-term play that has
neurial startup business model much more
yet to find its killer end-use application
effectively than many other countries. We
and may not do so until later this decade.
can likely ascribe this to differing cultural
For now, most of the quantum computing
norms among different countries.
startups are selling chips or access to their
platforms to other R&D engineers and aca- Japan and India, for example, have strug-
demic institutions. gled to maintain a presence on the
Silicon 100. There are signs of increasing
entrepreneurship in South Korea. And the
presence of nanoelectronics research insti-
tute Imec in Leuven, Belgium, is having
an influence in Europe. Belgium is home
to four startups in the Silicon 100, whereas
France and Germany have three apiece.
The gradual decline of U.S. representa-
tion on the Silicon 100 is not an indication
of its failure or diminished activity in the
broader world. Rather, the trend suggests
that the U.S. has successfully exported the
startup culture of nurturing small, flexible
companies that can develop technologies
at pace.
While Europe and China are relatively good
at producing startups, they remain relatively
poor at making global superstar companies
out of those startups. The U.S. remains at
the apex of that food chain. It has the edu-
cational system, the financial system and
the entrepreneurial spirit to support emerg-
ing companies, and it continues to attract
engineers from all over the world.
Nonetheless, with the ubiquity of the inter-
net and the rise of virtual collaborative work
on platforms like Zoom, Teams and Skype,
a company’s physical location is becoming
less important. Even startups can be multi-
national from the start.
The high cost of living in California has
prompted a wave of expatriate engineers to
return to their countries of origin. They bring
home with them the experience and the
network of contacts they cultivated while
working in the U.S.
At the same time, we have come to realize
that the dividends of globalization, which
we have all reaped for years, come at a price.
The public and private sectors increasingly
acknowledge the need to secure supply of
critical goods. There is a rising acceptance
of the costs involved in ensuring multiple
sources—and domestic supply—of critical
chips and the materials, equipment, EDA
tools and foundry services that go into the
chips’ manufacture.
Quantum computing remains far off. For
now, it is clear that chips and platforms for
AI in myriad forms is providing an increas-
ing number of opportunities for startups
today and into the future.
Silicon
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Company List by
Category
MATERIALS, PROCESSES, PACKAGING
AlixLabs A.B.
Black Semiconductor GmbH
Frore Systems Inc.
PRINTED ELECTRONICS
CHIP MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT
Moov Technologies Inc.
PHOTOVOLTAICS
ENERGY HARVESTING
GaN, SiC, POWER
Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd.
Gallium Semiconductor Singapore
Pte. Ltd.
Innoscience Technology Co. Ltd.
FOUNDRY
BelGaN Group B.V.
Nexchip Semiconductor Corp.
Rapidus Corp.
EDA, IP, DESIGN SERVICES
Agile Analog Ltd.
Celera Inc.
Expedera Inc.
proteanTecs Ltd.
SemiFive Co. Ltd.
X-Epic Corp.
ANALOG, MIXED-SIGNAL, PMICs
CanSemi Technology Inc.
Silicon Integrated Co. Ltd.
MEMORY, STORAGE
Catalog Technologies Inc.
Cerfe Labs Inc.
ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc.
Iridia Inc.
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd.
BIOELECTRONICS, MEDICAL
MEMS, SENSORS, ACTUATORS, HAPTICS
Anello Photonics Inc.
OQmented GmbH
Paragraf Ltd.
SigmaSense LLC
Soundskrit Inc.
Useful Sensors Inc.
xMEMS Labs Inc.
OPTOELECTRONICS, IMAGE SENSORS
Ayar Labs Inc.
Gigajot Technology Inc.
Metalenz Inc.
Newsight Imaging Ltd.
DISPLAY DEVICES, DISPLAYS, DRIVER
CHIPS
Eswin Co. Ltd.
Jade Bird Display Ltd.
Micledi Microdisplays B.V.
Poro Technologies Ltd.
Swave Photonics N.V.
RF & IoT
Ixana Inc.
Morse Micro Pty. Ltd.
Pharrowtech N.V.
Xcom Labs Inc.
5G & RF Iluvatar CoreX Co. Ltd.
EdgeQ Inc. Moore Threads Technology Co. Ltd.
Picocom Ltd. SambaNova Systems Inc.
Tenstorrent Inc.
RADAR, LIDAR, ADAS T-Head Semiconductor Co. Ltd.
bitsensing Inc. Untether AI Corp.
Black Sesame Technologies Co. Ltd. Vastai Technologies Inc.
Horizon Robotics Technology Co. Ltd.
SemiDrive Ltd. EDGE AI
Uhnder Inc. Analog Inference Inc.
Axelera AI N.V.
AUDIO, VISUAL PROCESSING DeepX Co. Ltd.
AlpsenTek Co. Ltd. GrAI Matter Labs S.A.
Reexen Technology Co. Ltd. Hailo Technologies Ltd.
SiMa Technologies Inc. Kinara Inc.
Syntiant Corp. Polyn Technology Ltd.
Quadric.io Inc.
GENERAL-PURPOSE PROCESSORS,
MCUs, NETWORKING, FPGAs
QUANTUM COMPUTING
Alif Semiconductor Inc.
Pasqal S.A.
Astera Labs Inc.
PsiQuantum Corp.
Codasip GmbH
Quantum Machines Ltd.
Nuclei System Technology Co. Ltd.
Quantum Motion Technologies Ltd.
Pliops Ltd.
QuiX Quantum B.V.
Rapid Silicon Inc.
Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.
Rivos Inc.
SiPearl S.A. SECURITY
Speedata Ltd. Axiado Corp.
Tsing Micro Co. Ltd. Crypto Quantique Ltd.
Dover Microsystems Inc.
PHOTONIC ACCELERATION,
COMPUTATION (Note: Categories are listed in
iPronics S.A. approximate order from least abstract
Lightelligence Inc. and most fundamental to the most
Lightmatter Inc. complex and highest level of abstraction.
Luminous Computing Inc. Although some categories have no
Salience Labs Ltd. entries, we maintain the nomenclature
to present a comprehensive view of the
GPU-TO-DATA-CENTER AI startup universe. Silicon 60 or Silicon
Biren Technology Co. Ltd. 100 companies have occupied these
Cerebras Systems Inc. categories in the past and may well do so
Ceremorphic Inc. in the future.)
Esperanto Technologies Inc.
FuriosaAI Inc.
Silicon

Graphcore Ltd.
Groq Inc. *Companies listed in red are new
additions to this year’s Silicon 100 list.

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Geographic Agile Analog Ltd.
(Cambridge, England)

Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd.

Mapping
(Cambridge, England)

Poro Technologies Ltd.

(Cambridge, England)

Crypto Quantique Ltd.

(London, England)

Quantum Motion Technologies Ltd.

(London, England)
Tenstorrent Inc.
(Toronto, Canada)

Salience Labs Ltd.

(London, England)
Untether
Untether AI Corp. AI
(Toronto, Ontario)
(Toronto, Canada)

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. Paragraf Ltd.

(Somersham, England)
(Toronto, Canada)

Graphcore Ltd.
(Bristol, England)

Picocom Ltd.
(Bristol, England)
Moov Technologies Inc. Ixana Inc.
(Tempe, Arizona) (West Lafayette, Indiana)

Soundskrit Inc.
Cerfe Labs LLC (Montreal, Canada)
(Austin, Texas)

SigmaSense LLC
(Austin, Texas)

Catalog Technologies Inc.

(Boston, Massachusetts)
Uhnder Inc.
(Austin, Texas)

Lightelligence Inc.
Lightmatter Inc.
(Boston, Massachusetts)

Quadric.io Inc.
(Burlingame, California)
iPronics S.A.
Lightmatter Inc. (Valencia, Spain)
(Boston, Massachusetts)

Iridia Inc.
(Carlsbad, California)
Metalenz Inc. GrAI Matter Labs S.A.
(Boston, Massachusetts) (Paris, France)

Syntiant Corp. Gigajot Technology Inc.

(Irvine, California) (Pasadena, California)
Dover Microsystems Inc. Pasqal S.A.
(Waltham, Massachusetts) (Paris, France)

Kinara Inc. Alif Semiconductor Inc.

(Los Gatos, California) (Pleasanton, California)
SiPearl S.A.
(Paris, France)

Rapid Silicon Inc. Xcom Labs Inc. Astera Labs Inc.

(Los Gatos, California) (San Diego, California) (Santa Clara, California)

Esperanto Technologies Inc. Axiado Corp. Ayar Labs Inc.

(Mountain View, California) (San Jose, California) (Santa Clara, California)

Groq Inc. Celera Inc. EdgeQ Inc.

(Mountain View, California) (San Jose, California) (Santa Clara, California)

Luminous Computing Inc. Ceremorphic Inc. Expedera Inc.

(Mountain View, California) (San Jose, California) (Santa Clara, California)

Rivos Inc. Frore Systems Inc. xMEMS Labs Inc.

(Mountain View, California) (San Jose, California) (Santa Clara, California)

Useful Sensors Inc. SiMa Technologies Inc. Cerebras Systems Inc.

(Mountain View, California) (San Jose, California) (Sunnyvale, California)

PsiQuantum Corp. Analog Inference Inc.

(Palo Alto, California) (Santa Clara, California)

SambaNova Systems Inc. Anello Photonics Inc.

(Palo Alto, California) (Santa Clara, California)
 Black Semiconductor GmbH Eswin Co. Ltd.
(Aachen, Germany) (Beijing, China)

OQmented GmbH Horizon Robotics Technology Co. Ltd.

(Itzehoe, Germany) (Beijing, China)

Moore Threads Technology Co. Ltd.

AlixLabs A.B. (Beijing, China)
(Lund, Sweden)

Tsing Micro Co. Ltd.

(Beijing, China)
Pharrowtech N.V.
(Heverlee, Belgium)

Micledi Microdisplays B.V.

(Leuven, Belgium)
Biren Technology Co. Ltd.
(Shanghai, China)

Swave Photonics N.V.

(Leuven, Belgium)
Black Sesame Technologies Co. Ltd.
(Shanghai, China)

BelGaN Group B.V.

(Oudenaarde, Belgium)
Iluvatar CoreX Co. Ltd.
(Shanghai, China)

Axelera AI N.V.
(Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Jade Bird Display Ltd.
(Shanghai, China)

QuiX Quantum B.V.

(Enschede, Netherlands)
Nuclei System Technology Co. Ltd.
(Shanghai, China)

Vastai Technologies Inc.

(Shanghai, China)

ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc.

(Hefei, China)

DeepX Co. Ltd.

(Seongnam, South Korea)
Nexchip Semiconductor Corp.
(Hefei, China)

SemiFive Co. Ltd.

Codasip GmbH (Seongnam, South Korea)
(Munich, Germany)
Silicon Integrated Co. Ltd.
(Wuhan, China)
bitsensing Inc.
(Seoul, South Korea)

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd.

(Wuhan, China)
FuriosaAI Inc.
(Seoul, South Korea)

Rapidus Corp.
(Tokyo, Japan)

T-Head Semiconductor Co. Ltd.

(Hangzhou, China)

SemiDrive Ltd.
Gallium Semiconductor Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Nanjing, China)
(Singapore)

X-Epic Corp.
(Nanjing, China)

Polyn Technology Ltd.

(Caesarea, Israel)

CanSemi Technology Inc.

proteanTecs Ltd. (Guangzhou, China)

(Haifa, Israel)

AlpsenTek Co. Ltd.

Newsight Imaging Ltd. (Shenzhen, China)

(Ness Ziona, Israel)

Reexen Technology Co. Ltd.

Speedata Ltd. (Shenzhen, China)

(Netanya, Israel)

Innoscience Technology Co. Ltd.

Pliops Ltd. (Zhuhai, China)

(Ramat Gan, Israel) Morse Micro Pty. Ltd.

(Sydney, Australia)

Hailo Technologies Ltd.

(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Silicon

Quantum Machines Ltd.

(Tel Aviv, Israel)

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EE Times Lists 100
Emerging Companies
to Watch in 2023
By Peter Clarke
E E Times has retained 60 of the entrants
from its v22 list of companies that we
think are worth keeping an eye on and has
selected 40 startups to join them on the
Silicon 100 v23.
EE Times has been publishing and updat-
ing its list of emerging startups since April
2004, reflecting corporate, commercial,
technology and market conditions. The lat-
est batch of newcomers includes compa-
nies active across a broad technology front
that ranges from materials to security.
Version 23.0 of EE Times’
list of emerging startups
includes 40 newcomers
to the Silicon 100.
The full Silicon 100 lineup covers many
areas of interest. These include semicon-
ductor manufacturing, EDA and design
services, analog and mixed-signal circuits,
AI, neural networks, processors and intel-
lectual property, quantum computing,
security, memory, processing-in-memory,
optical communications, optical process-
ing, MEMS, sensors, displays, LiDAR, radar,
RF, IoT, energy harvesting, wireless charg-
ing, power semiconductors and power
management.
Companies are selected for the Silicon 100
based on a mix of criteria, including tech-
nology, intended market, financial posi-
tion and investment profile, maturity and
executive leadership. Selection for the
Silicon 100 does not mean these compa-
nies are tips for financial success. It means
they are of interest—and this may be for a
variety of reasons.
The names of the companies brought onto
the list at this iteration are highlighted in
red in the list that follows.
Readers are welcome to nominate their
own emerging companies for inclusion in a
future iteration of the Silicon 100. Nomina-
tions should be supported by a short cita-
tion providing details about the company
and explaining its fitness for inclusion on
the list.
 Agile Analog Ltd.
Cambridge, England
A
Founded in August 2017, Agile Analog claims it is able to design ana-
log circuits faster, to a higher quality and on multiple silicon pro-
cesses. The company has developed the COMPOSA platform for
generating IP variants based on standard platforms in functional
domains, such as signal conditioning, data conversion, power regu-
lation and sensing.

www.agileanalog.com

Alif Semiconductor Inc.

Pleasanton, California
Alif Semiconductor was founded in 2019 and has entered the Arm-
based microcontroller market with enhanced support for machine
learning. It launched its Ensemble and Crescendo families of MCUs
and fusion processors in 2021. The company is led by CEO and
co-founder Syed Ali. He was also a co-founder of Cavium Networks,
where he served as CEO and chairman.

www.alifsemi.com

AlixLabs A.B.
Lund, Sweden
AlixLabs is a 2019 startup formed to exploit developments in atomic-
layer etching at dimensions below 20 nm. The company’s method
makes use of inclined surfaces—readily fabricated by dry etching or
epitaxial growth—to provide masking for the atomic-layer epitaxy
process, which can thereby produce small structures in a precise
Silicon

and efficient way, the company claims.

www.alixlabs.com

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 AlpsenTek Co. Ltd.
Shenzhen, China
AlpsenTek, known in China as Ruisi Zhixin Guangdong, is engaged
in R&D of machine-vision sensors and algorithms. Founded in 2019,
the company has offices in the Chinese cities of Shenzhen, Beijing
and Nanjing as well as in Zurich, Switzerland. The company’s work
encompasses event-sensing image sensors and AI processing to
produce vision-sensor chips for smartphones, consumer electron-
ics, smart security, robotics, industrial vision and automobiles.

www.alpsentek.com

Analog Inference Inc.

Santa Clara, California
Analog Inference is a 2018 startup founded by analog and memory
circuit designer Vishal Sarin to develop edge AI analog in-memory
inference accelerators. Target markets for its products range from
edge servers to mobile devices. The company is backed by Khosla
Ventures. Investors and advisers also include Andy Bechtolsheim,
co-founder of Sun Microsystems; Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder of
Juniper Networks; and Atiq Raza, CEO of Raza Microelectronics.

www.analog-inference.com

Anello Photonics Inc.

Santa Clara, California
Anello was co-founded in 2018 by CEO Mario Paniccia and chief
strategy officer Mike Horton. The company has developed a low-
loss silicon nitride waveguide technology that it is applying to an
integrated optical gyroscope sensor. The company claims its inte-
grated silicon photonics optical gyroscope (SiPhOG) reduces size,
weight, power and cost compared with equivalent fiber-optic gyro-
scope solutions. Paniccia was previously an Intel fellow and was
CTO and general manager of the silicon photonics group there.

www.anellophotonics.com
 Astera Labs Inc.
Santa Clara, California
Astera Labs is a 2017 startup developing connectivity chips for data
centers. The company’s product portfolio includes system-aware
semiconductor integrated circuits, boards and services to enable
robust CXL, PCIe and Ethernet connectivity.

www.asteralabs.com

Axelera AI N.V.
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Axelera AI was incubated in 2019 by Bitfury and began working with
research institute Imec in early 2020. In 2021, Axelera was launched
as an independent company. It has produced edge AI processors
with a custom dataflow architecture and multicore in-memory
computing.

www.axelera.ai

Axiado Corp.
San Jose, California
Axiado was founded in 2017 to address digital security and root
of trust by way of secure processor and AI systems. Its processor
design uses an AI engine for continuous learning to help protect
systems from future attacks. The company raised $20 million in a
Series B round in April 2021, saying that the funds would provide
working capital to finish development of its intelligent security pro-
Silicon

cessors.

www.axiado.com

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 Ayar Labs Inc.
Santa Clara, California
Ayar Labs is developing CMOS optical I/O chiplets to replace tra-
ditional electrical I/O within components. The ability to use light
to communicate between chips over distances from millime-
ters to kilometers is expected to deliver improvements in latency,
bandwidth density and power consumption. The company was
founded in 2015 to capitalize on a decade of academic work at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of California,
Berkeley; and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

www.ayarlabs.com

B BelGaN Group B.V.

Oudenaarde, Belgium
BelGaN Group was formed to acquire a silicon wafer fab in
Oudenaarde and convert it to GaN production for automotive and
other power applications. The company, led by CEO Alan Zhou, is
a joint venture between Rockley Management (HK) Ltd. and Wuxi
Group Ltd., both of Hong Kong.

www.belgan.com

Biren Technology Co. Ltd.

Shanghai, China
Biren Technology, aka Shanghai Biren Intelligent Technology Co.
Ltd., was founded in 2019 and is led by founder, chairman and CEO
Zhang Wen. It developed its first GPU/AI chip to compete in China
with chips from Nvidia, claiming its chiplet-based component
offered 3× the performance of products sold by others. The Biren
chips were due to be made by TSMC using a 7-nm manufacturing
process.

www.birentech.com
 bitsensing Inc.
Seoul, South Korea
Founded in 2018, bitsensing is developing radar-based sensors at
24, 60, 77 and 79 GHz for use in automotive/autonomous driving,
smart-home and robotics applications. In April 2023, bitsensing
announced a partnership with Uhnder to develop 4D digital imag-
ing radar to meet the automotive radar needs of South Korean
OEMs.

www.bitsensing.com

Black Semiconductor GmbH

Aachen, Germany
Black Semiconductor is developing a back-end-of-line photonics
manufacturing process that supports on-chip optical signal routing
and fiber-to-chip interfaces for chip-to-chip connections. The tech-
nology supports bidirectional electro-optic conversion with data-
transmission rates of up to 10 petabits/second, the company claims.
At the same time, the technology is compatible with CMOS front-
end-of-line manufacturing.

www.blacksemicon.de

Black Sesame Technologies

Co. Ltd.
Shanghai, China
Black Sesame Technologies is a 2016 startup based in Shanghai and
Silicon Valley that researches and develops algorithms for compu-
tational imaging and machine vision, such as camera array solu-
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tions for mobile devices; vision perception systems for ADAS and
autonomous driving; and algorithms for sensor fusion.

www.blacksesame.com.cn

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 Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd.
Cambridge, England
C
Cambridge GaN Devices was founded in April 2016 to develop GaN
power devices. It has introduced a family of enhancement-mode
650-V GaN transistors that can be operated like silicon MOSFETs
without the need for special gate drivers, driving circuitry or gate-
voltage clamping mechanisms.

www.camgandevices.com

CanSemi Technology Inc.

Guangzhou, China
CanSemi Technology, founded in 2018, is a foundry focused on appli-
cations in the IoT, automotive electronics, industrial control and 5G.
Also known as Guangzhou Yuexin Semiconductor Technology Co.
Ltd. or Yuexin Semiconductor, the company says it is committed
to meeting the demand for domestic chip manufacturing, making
PMICs, mixed-signal ICs, CMOS image sensors and microcontrollers.
It has received ¥37 billion (about $5.35 billion) to create a wafer fab
site that covers 140,000 square meters. CanSemi aims to ramp man-
ufacturing capacity up to 80,000 wafer starts per month.

www.cansemitech.com

Catalog Technologies Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts
Catalog Technologies, founded in 2016, intends to use DNA for data
storage and eventually for computation through the manipulation
of synthetic DNA.

www.catalogdna.com
 Celera Inc.
San Jose, California
Celera, founded in 2018, is developing and deploying an automated
AI software-based platform that delivers custom IC designs faster
than legacy teams and flows. The company claims a 100× speedup.
Its focus is on analog/mixed-signal applications, which have been
historically resistant to automation.

www.celeratechnologies.com

Cerebras Systems Inc.

Sunnyvale, California
Cerebras Systems is a computer systems company dedicated to
accelerating deep learning on wafer-scale chips. The CS-2 AI com-
puter is based on the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2), which
contains 2.6 trillion transistors and covers more than 46,225 mm2
of silicon. The company was founded in 2016 and is headed up by
Andrew Feldman, who sold micro-server chip company SeaMicro to
AMD in 2012 for $334 million.

www.cerebras.net

Ceremorphic Inc.
San Jose, California
Ceremorphic, founded in April 2020 by Venkat Mattela, has devel-
oped a multi-thread processing architecture called ThreadArch.
Processors built to this architecture could be suitable for AI model
training, high-performance computing, drug discovery and meta-
Silicon

verse processing. The company’s hierarchical learning processor is

implemented in TSMC’s 5-nm manufacturing process.

www.ceremorphic.com

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 Cerfe Labs LLC
Austin, Texas
Cerfe Labs was spun off from IP licensor Arm in 2020 to develop
correlated electron RAM (CeRAM), a nonvolatile memory capable
of scaling to advanced nodes. The company’s founders were lead-
ing members of Arm’s research community. Cerfe is working with
CeRAM originator Symetrix Corp. (Colorado Springs, Colorado).

www.cerfelabs.com

ChangXin Memory
Technologies Inc.
Hefei, China
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) was founded with Chinese
state support in May 2016. Privately owned CXMT is the largest DRAM
integrated device manufacturer in mainland China. It has opened
a 300-mm wafer fab to manufacture DRAM chips. In 2019 and
2020, CXMT signed long-term licensing agreements securing
access to DRAM patent portfolios, including that of now-defunct
Qimonda AG.

www.cxmt.com

Codasip GmbH
Munich, Germany
Codasip was founded in Brno, Czech Republic, in 2014 by Karel
Masarik to commercialize hardware-software codesign approaches,
which it has applied to RISC-V instruction set processor develop-
ment. The company offers customers the ability to deploy custom
compute through the combination of the open RISC-V ISA, Codasip
Studio processor design automation and high-quality processor IP.

www.codasip.com
 Crypto Quantique Ltd.
London, England
Crypto Quantique is developing an end-to-end IoT security plat-
form. Founded in 2016, the company has developed silicon IP that
provides security based on measuring quantum tunneling cur-
rent in transistor arrays. This is similar to the use of metastability of
SRAMs in physically unclonable functions. The Crypto Quantique
platform’s Quantum-Driven Identity (QDID) root of trust can be
used to generate multiple cryptographic keys that do not need to
be stored and can be used by multiple applications on demand.

www.cryptoquantique.com

DeepX Co. Ltd.

D Seongnam, South Korea
DeepX is a developer of neural processing units for edge computing
through the efficient support of convoluted neural networks. DeepX
was founded in 2018 and is led by CEO Lokwon Kim, who previously
helped design the A11 and A12 Bionic processors for the iPhone X
and iPhone XS, respectively, at Apple.

www.deepx.ai

Dover Microsystems Inc.

Waltham, Massachusetts
Dover Microsystems was founded in 2017 to bring security, safety
and privacy enforcement to silicon. Dover’s CoreGuard hardware IP
for embedded systems integrates with RISC architectures to pro-
tect against cyberattacks, flawed software and safety violations.
CoreGuard technology originated as part of a Darpa program pro-
Silicon

posal submitted by CEO Jothy Rosenberg and chief scientist Greg

Sullivan prior to the company’s formation.

www.dovermicrosystems.com

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 EdgeQ Inc.
Santa Clara, California E
EdgeQ is a 2018 startup that aims to put 4G and 5G base stations
and AI on the same SoC. Led by executives from Qualcomm, Intel
and Broadcom, EdgeQ is pioneering a converged connectivity and
AI platform that is fully software-customizable and programmable.
It has recruited former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs and former
Qualcomm CTO Matt Grob as advisers.

edgeq.io

Esperanto Technologies Inc.

Mountain View, California
Esperanto Technologies develops computing solutions based on the
RISC-V ISA. The company’s goal is to make RISC-V the architecture
of choice for compute-intensive applications like machine learning.
It was founded in 2014 by Dave Ditzel, a chip industry veteran well
known as a chip designer previously with Intel and Sun Microsys-
tems and as founder of code-morphing startup Transmeta.

www.esperanto.ai

Eswin Co. Ltd.

Beijing, China
Eswin, aka Beijing Eswin Technology Group Co. Ltd. or Beijing
Yisiwei Technology Group Co. Ltd., was founded in 2016 by Wang
Dongsheng. Wang earlier founded and was chairman of BOE
Technology Group, a Chinese producer of displays for smartphones
and TVs. Eswin makes silicon wafers and performs assembly and
testing of ICs. It also operates as a fabless developer of chips provid-
ing RISC-V processors and chips for display interaction, multimedia
systems, smart connectivity, in-vehicle systems, intelligent comput-
ing and power management.

www.eswin.com
 Expedera Inc.
Santa Clara, California
Expedera provides scalable neural engine semiconductor IP with
a pipelined architecture that runs neural network models natively.
The company was founded in 2018 by executives who previously
worked at Memoir Systems and at Cisco. Expedera claims its IP has
scalable performance that can range from edge nodes and smart-
phones to automotive and data centers and is shipping millions of
devices worldwide.

www.expedera.com

Frore Systems Inc.

F San Jose, California
Frore Systems was founded in 2018 by two former Qualcomm exec-
utives. The company has developed technology for the active cool-
ing of chips. The company claims that by putting its MEMS devices,
called AirJets, on top of microprocessors, it can increase the amount
of time the devices can operate in turbo mode without overheat-
ing, effectively doubling performance. The company has raised
$116 million in total from such sources as Mayfield, Addition, Clear
Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.

www.froresystems.com

FuriosaAI Inc.
Seoul, South Korea
Founded in 2017, FuriosaAI is building an AI inference computing
solution with novel chip architecture and software stack. The focus
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is on hyperscale data centers and enterprise servers that will run

production AI applications at massive scale.

www.furiosa.ai

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 Gallium Semiconductor
Singapore Pte. Ltd. G
Singapore
Gallium Semiconductor Singapore was founded in 2020 and has hit
the ground running with a family of discrete GaN-on-SiC transis-
tors. The joint Netherlands-Singapore effort now has operations in
Singapore; Nijmegen, Netherlands; Toulouse, France; Shanghai; and
the Philippines.

www.galliumsemi.com

Gigajot Technology Inc.

Pasadena, California
Gigajot Technology was spun off from Dartmouth College (Hanover,
New Hampshire) in 2017. The company has developed the quanta
image sensor (QIS) and is offering QIS-based sensors and cameras
for imaging applications ranging from high-end to consumer. The
company was founded by two Dartmouth Ph.D. students and Eric
Fossum, a Dartmouth professor who is widely regarded as the father
of the CMOS image sensor.

www.gigajot.tech

GrAI Matter Labs S.A.

Paris, France
GrAI Matter Labs was founded in 2016 and is based on research
carried out on the human brain at the Pierre and Marie Curie
University’s Vision Institute in Paris. While GrAI Matter Labs describes
its technology as “brain inspired,” its NeuronFlow technology does
not include spiking models but takes advantage of data sparsity.

www.graimatterlabs.ai
 Graphcore Ltd.
Bristol, England
Graphcore was spun out from XMOS Ltd. in 2016 to develop a pro-
cessor for machine learning based on graph theory and aimed
at deployment in data centers. The company is led by CEO Nigel
Toon and CTO Simon Knowles. Graphcore calls its processor an
intelligence processing unit (IPU). Its third-generation IPU, the Bow
processor, makes use of wafer-on-wafer 3D stacking technology
provided by TSMC.

www.graphcore.ai

Groq Inc.
Mountain View, California
Groq was founded in 2016 by Douglas Wightman and Jonathon
Ross—former Google executives who worked on the TensorFlow
Processor Unit—and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya. The
GroqChip is implemented in 14-nm CMOS and provides performance
up to 750 TOPS (INT8) and 188 TFLOPS (FP16) at 900-MHz clock fre-
quency. The company offers GroqChips, GroqCard, GroqNode and
GroqRack hardware instantiations and GroqWare software support.

www.groq.com

Hailo Technologies Ltd. H

Tel Aviv, Israel
Hailo Technologies was founded in 2017. Its Hailo-8 is an edge AI
processor capable of up to 26 TOPS, giving it the performance to
handle high-resolution video in real time or multiple video streams
and neural network models simultaneously. The company has
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followed up with the Hailo-15 AI vision processors, which combine

AI inferencing with computer vision engines.

www.hailo.ai

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 Horizon Robotics Technology
Co. Ltd.
Beijing, China
Horizon Robotics Technology, founded in 2015, targets
automotive-grade edge AI computing platforms for intelligent
vehicles. Horizon provides ADAS, autonomous driving and intelli-
gent in-cabin AI applications. It has customized products for OEMs
and Tier 1 suppliers, including Audi, BYD, ChangAn Auto, Continen-
tal, GAC, Li Auto and SAIC. Horizon’s first automotive-grade edge
AI processor, the Journey 2, launched in 2019. The Journey 5 chip is
sampling, with Journey 6 in development and due in 2024.

www.horizon.ai

Iluvatar CoreX Co. Ltd.

I Shanghai, China
lluvatar CoreX, more formally known as Shanghai Tianshu Zhixin
Semiconductor Co. Ltd., is a developer of SoC chipsets and software
for high-performance computing. The company was founded in
December 2015 by a group of semiconductor and software engi-
neers from Silicon Valley and China who have gained experience
at companies like AMD/ATI, Nvidia, Oracle and Fujitsu. Iluvatar has
assembled teams for GPU chip design, AI and parallel processing
and system software.

www.iluvatar.com

Innoscience Technology
Co. Ltd.
Zhuhai, China
Innoscience Technology claims to be the world’s biggest manufac-
turer of GaN-on-Si power transistors. The company operates two
200-mm GaN-on-Si wafer fabs in China and has opened design
and sales support facilities in Santa Clara, California, and Leuven,
Belgium. Innoscience was founded in December 2015 with invest-
ment from South Korea’s SK Group, Arm Ltd., China Merchants
Bank International and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.
Ltd. (CATL). The company has partnered with European research
institute Imec and semiconductor equipment suppliers ASML
Holding N.V. and Aixtron S.E.

www.innoscience.com
 iPronics S.A.
Valencia, Spain
iPronics was founded in 2019 as a spinoff of Universitat Politècnica
de València by Daniel Pérez-López, José Capmany and Iñaki Beren-
guer. Its programmable photonic IC architecture is inspired by the
electronic FPGA. The photonic array is a hexagonal mesh of 2D pho-
tonic waveguides that incorporate programmable Mach-Zehnder
interferometers. A large variety of functions can be performed on
the seven-cell hexagonal array. This enables the same hardware to
be applied to multiple commercial applications, including 5G com-
munication, data centers, artificial intelligence, autonomous driv-
ing, quantum computing and the IoT.

www.ipronics.com

Iridia Inc.
Carlsbad, California
Iridia combines proprietary enzymology and semiconductor tech-
nology for long-term data storage using DNA. Iridia was founded in
2016 and has developed techniques for writing, storing and reading
data held in single DNA molecules.

www.iridia.com

Ixana Inc.
West Lafayette, Indiana
Ixana has developed a non-radiative body-area network wireless
technology, called Wi-R, that it says is 100× more energy-efficient
than traditional wireless. Wi-R enables links between personal
and wearable devices with communication at 100× lower energy
than Wi-Fi or Bluetooth (~10 nJ/b) and over 10× lower energy than
UWB (>1 nJ/b). Ixana, founded in 2020, is developing wireless
Silicon

augmented-reality headsets designed for human-computer inter-

faces. The company has developed a silicon chip, known as YR11.

www.ixana.ai

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 Jade Bird Display Ltd. J
Shanghai, China
Jade Bird Display (JBD) was founded in 2015 with the goal of pro-
ducing micro-display panels. It has developed monochromatic red,
green and blue active-matrix microLED displays with a pixel den-
sity of more than 5,000 dpi using a wafer-scale monolithic hybrid
integration process. JBD uses III-V and III-nitride epilayer transfer
and bonding onto CMOS wafers to make the hybrid integration
technology commercially viable. It has a pilot fab in Shanghai and a
volume fab in Hefei, China.

www.jb-display.com

K Kinara Inc.
Los Gatos, California
Kinara, founded as Deep Vision Inc. in 2015, is headquartered in
Silicon Valley with development based in Hyderabad, India. The
company has developed an edge AI processor that uses a polymor-
phic dataflow architecture for computer vision and is applicable to
cars, robots, drones, smart cameras and machines of all types. Kinara
founders Rehan Hameed and Wajahat Qadeer are from Stanford
University. The company’s name comes from the Hindi word for
“edge.”

kinara.ai

Lightelligence Inc. L
Boston, Massachusetts
Lightelligence was spun out of MIT in 2017 to commercialize optical
processing. In 2021, the company announced its Photonic Arithme-
tic Computing Engine (PACE) demo. The core of PACE comprises a
64 × 64 optical-matrix multiplier in an integrated silicon photonic chip
flip-chip–packaged with a CMOS microelectronic chip. The company
touts the development as relevant to accelerating machine-learning
applications.

www.lightelligence.ai
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 Lightmatter Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts
Lightmatter is a 2017 MIT spinoff founded to commercialize optical
processing through waveguides on silicon. Lightmatter’s vision is
to bring photonic computing out of the lab and into data centers.
The company’s photonic AI accelerator product line, Envise, and
programmable photonic interconnect product, Passage, are set
to address challenges related to performance scaling and energy
efficiency.

www.lightmatter.co

Luminous Computing Inc.

Mountain View, California
Luminous Computing aims to build a scalable AI supercomputer
based on an AI training and inference chip that uses proprietary sili-
con photonics to eliminate data movement bottlenecks. Founded
in 2018, the company is backed by Bill Gates, Luke Nosek, Ali Partovi,
Dara Khosrowshahi and other Silicon Valley investors.

www.luminous.com

Metalenz Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts
Metalenz was spun out of Harvard University in 2016 to develop flat
M
lenses using semiconductor-manufacturing techniques. Its meta-
optics approach uses planar surfaces consisting of sub-wavelength
structures to manipulate light in a manner not possible with tradi-
tional refractive lenses. Metalenz is backed by 3M, Applied Ventures
LLC, Intel Capital, M Ventures and TDK Ventures. The company holds
an exclusive worldwide license to the foundational IP portfolio relat-
ing to the metasurface devices developed in the Capasso Lab at
Harvard University.

www.metalenz.com
 Micledi Microdisplays B.V.
Leuven, Belgium
Micledi Microdisplays was founded in 2019 by researchers from
Imec with expertise in thin films and display R&D. The company
is developing microLED displays in a 300-mm CMOS manufactur-
ing platform, said to be key to achieving augmented-reality smart
glasses that are small and lightweight, with long battery life and at
a reasonable cost.

www.micledi.com

Moore Threads
Technology Co. Ltd.
Beijing, China
Graphics and AI startup Moore Threads Technology raised hun-
dreds of millions of dollars in a seed funding round only 100 days
after its formation in October 2020. The company’s mission is to
build a computing platform to accelerate AI, graphics and meta-
verse computing.

www.mthreads.com

Moov Technologies Inc.

Tempe, Arizona
Moov Technologies is a venture-funded startup that has built an
interactive semiconductor and display equipment marketplace
Silicon

and asset management platform utilizing the internet. Maxam

Yeung and Steven Zhou founded the company in 2018.

www.moov.co

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 Morse Micro Pty. Ltd.
Sydney, Australia
Morse Micro is a fabless semiconductor startup developing Wi-Fi
HaLow chips for the IoT market. The technology can reach 10× the
range of conventional Wi-Fi technology and last many years on a
single battery. Morse Micro was founded in 2016 by Andrew Terry
and Michael De Nil, who had both worked on Wi-Fi for Broadcom.
In 2023, Morse Micro announced a partnership to bring HaLow to
market with Shanghai-listed Quectel Wireless Solutions.

www.morsemicro.com

Newsight Imaging Ltd.

N Ness Ziona, Israel
Founded in 2016, Newsight Imaging develops 3D CMOS imaging
sensors with a variety of integrated digital logic for functions like dis-
tance measurement and gesture and facial recognition. The com-
pany also provides a hyperspectral sensor. Newsight serves multiple
vertical markets, including automotive, robotics, smart city, mobile,
Industry 4.0, health, water and the food and beverage industries. The
company has launched the MT LiDAR 3.1 reference design, based on
its NSI9000 (non-stacked) CMOS image sensor for depth imaging.

www.newsight.com

Nexchip Semiconductor Corp.

Hefei, China
Nexchip Semiconductor, aka Hefei Nexchip Semiconductor Corp.
and Hefei Jinghe Integrated Circuit Co. Ltd., was established in May
2015 as a joint-venture foundry between Hefei City Construction
Investment Holding (Group) Co. Ltd. and Powerchip Technology
Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan). The foundry offers CMOS processes down
to 90 nm, with multiple add-on modules allowing manufacturing
of MCUs, CMOS image sensors, power management ICs and dis-
play drivers. Processes down to 28 nm are in development. Manu-
facturing production capacity had reached 100,000 wafer starts per
month by the end of 2021. The company was officially listed on the
Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock
Exchange in May 2023.

www.nexchip.com.cn
 Nuclei System
Technology Co. Ltd.
Shanghai, China
Nuclei System Technology was founded in 2018 as a RISC-V core
provider by Bob Hu. The company is strongly focused on develop-
ing RISC-V core IP and growing the RISC-V market and ecosystem
in China. It has released the N200 series of low-power RISC-V cores
for IoT applications.

www.nucleisys.com

O OQmented GmbH
Itzehoe, Germany
OQmented is developing MEMS mirror and laser-scanning technol-
ogies. The company claims its MEMS bubble technology provides a
steerable chip that optimizes performance in terms of field of view,
device size, durability, energy consumption, sensing and resolution.
The technology is applicable to automotive, consumer AR, robotics
and 3D camera applications. OQmented was founded in 2018 and
raised $20 million in a Series A round of financing in March 2023.

www.oqmented.com

Paragraf Ltd.
Somersham, England
P
Paragraf was spun out from the University of Cambridge in 2015
as 2D Technologies Ltd. The company has developed a process for
producing single-atom–thick 2D materials, including graphene,
directly onto crystalline substrates like silicon, silicon carbide, sap-
phire and gallium nitride. Paragraf has developed Hall-effect sen-
sors for use in magnetic and battery applications. In May 2023, it
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announced the acquisition of graphene biosensor pioneer Cardea

Bio Inc. (San Diego, California) for an undisclosed sum.

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 Pasqal S.A.
Paris, France
Rather than use ion traps that need to be cryogenically cooled,
Pasqal uses neutral atoms as quantum bits that are controlled in
2D and 3D arrays of optical tweezers, using laser light to manipu-
late quantum registers with up to a few hundred qubits. In January
2023, Pasqal raised €100 million ($107 million) in equity to accel-
erate the development of its neutral-atom quantum-computing
platform and deliver a 1,000-qubit quantum computer by 2024.

www.pasqal.io

Pharrowtech N.V.
Heverlee, Belgium
Pharrowtech, a 2019 spinoff from research institute Imec, designs
and develops complete solutions for next-generation wireless appli-
cations, with products including millimeter-wave RFIC and digital
baseband processor semiconductors, phased-array antennas and
software solutions.

www.pharrowtech.com

Picocom Ltd.
Bristol, England
Picocom designs and markets Open RAN standard-compliant
baseband SoCs and carrier-grade software products for 5G small-
cell infrastructure. It was founded in August 2018 and has R&D
engineering sites in Bristol and in Beijing.

www.picocom.com
 Pliops Ltd.
Ramat Gan, Israel
Pliops was founded in 2017 by flash storage industry veterans from
Samsung, M-Systems and XtremIO. Pliops is creating a storage pro-
cessor accelerator to help cloud and enterprise data centers access
data up to 50× faster with 10% of the computational load and power
consumption. Its technology collapses multiple layers into one device
based on a patent-pending approach. In August 2022, Pliops closed
a $100 million Series D round, bringing the total investment in the
company to more than $200 million since its inception.

www.pliops.com

Polyn Technology Ltd.

Caesarea, Israel
Polyn offers neuromorphic analog-signal processing of raw sensor
data of any type, enabling conversion of trained neural networks into
AI silicon chips with ultra-low power consumption, low latency and
small size. The company, founded in 2019, has introduced dedicated
voice and vibration front-end processors.

www.polyn.ai

Poro Technologies Ltd.

Cambridge, England
Poro Technologies, which trades as Porotech, was founded by Rachel
Oliver, Tongtong Zhu and Yingjun Liu in April 2018 as a spinoff from
the University of Cambridge. Porotech is commercializing porous
GaN in conjunction with its partners and foundry network for pro-
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duction of semiconductor devices for microLEDs, lasers, power elec-

tronics, quantum computing and communication.

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 proteanTecs Ltd.
Haifa, Israel
Founded in 2017, proteanTecs has developed a cloud-based plat-
form that combines data created in chip-embedded software
agents with machine learning to predict faults before they become
failures. Insights can be gained at chip design, chip production,
system production and after deployment. The level of Universal
Chip Telemetry (UCT) is determined by the coverage and variety of
agents integrated. It is applicable to chip developers, system build-
ers and service providers.

www.proteantecs.com

PsiQuantum Corp.
Palo Alto, California
Founded in 2015, PsiQuantum aims to create a photonic quantum-
computing platform. The company was co-founded by Jeremy
O’Brien, who was previously a professor of physics and electrical
engineering at the University of Bristol and the director for the
Centre for Quantum Photonics there, and Terry Rudolph, a profes-
sor at Imperial College London. The company is using GlobalFound-
ries’ wafer fabs in the U.S. and Germany to make circuits and has
said it expects to build a million-qubit photonic quantum com-
puter by 2025. In July 2021, the company announced it had raised
$450 million in Series D funding.

www.psiquantum.com

Quadric.io Inc.
Burlingame, California
Q
Founded in 2016, Quadric is developing machine-learning software
and platforms for autonomous vehicles and robots. It has received
investment from Denso Corp. through that company’s wholly
owned subsidiary Nsitexe (Tokyo, Japan). Quadric’s Chimera family
of general-purpose neural processor cores combines a neural pro-
cessing accelerator with the full C++ programmability of a digital-
signal processor.

www.quadric.io
 Quantum Machines Ltd.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Quantum Machines is a 2018 developer of a hardware-software
stack for the control and operation of quantum computers. The
company’s Quantum Orchestration Platform supports multi-qubit
calibrations and quantum-error correction and scales up to many
hundreds of qubits. In March 2023, Quantum Machines partnered
with Nvidia to release the DGX Quantum, a system that couples
GPUs and quantum computing using the CUDA quantum software
platform.

www.quantum-machines.co

Quantum Motion
Technologies Ltd.
London, England
Quantum Motion Technologies is developing a scalable array of
qubits fabricated on silicon using a CMOS-compatible process. The
company was founded in 2017 by John Morton, professor of nano-
electronics at University College London, and Simon Benjamin, pro-
fessor of quantum technologies at Oxford University. Its chairman
is Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, and co-founder of Cadence Design Systems and
Synopsys.

www.quantummotion.tech

QuiX Quantum B.V.

Enschede, Netherlands
QuiX Quantum was founded in 2019 to develop an optical processor
for quantum computing capable of room-temperature operation.
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The company is a spinoff from the University of Twente and uses

silicon nitride waveguides on silicon or glass substrates.

www.quixquantum.com

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 Rapid Silicon Inc.
Los Gatos, California R
Rapid Silicon is developing AI- and intelligent-edge–focused FPGAs
for diverse target applications and power, performance and area
requirements. Chairman and CEO Naveed Sherwani founded the
company in 2020.

www.rapidsilicon.com

Rapidus Corp.
Tokyo, Japan
Rapidus was established in August 2022 with consortium support
from eight Japanese companies looking to get Japan back into
advanced chip manufacturing at 2 nm. The company has linked
up with IBM, which claims to have a 2-nm manufacturing process.
Rapidus, which will rely on extensive government subsidies, plans to
build a wafer fab in Chitose City, on the northern island of Hokkaido.
The project could cost as much as ¥5 trillion (about $37 billion).

www.rapidus.inc

Reexen Technology Co. Ltd.

Shenzhen, China
Founded in 2018, Reexen Technology, aka Shenzhen Jiutian Ruixin
Technology Co. Ltd., is a developer of audio and visual signal-
processing chips based on mixed-signal inference sensing and com-
puting. The company pursues a neuromorphic sensor-memory-
computing approach to circuit architecture. Reexen has research
centers in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Chengdu, China, and offices in
Zurich, Switzerland. Hongjie Liu is co-founder and CEO.

www.reexen.com
 Rivos Inc.
Mountain View, California
Rivos is a high-performance RISC-V processor developer founded
in May 2021 by Puneet Kumar (CEO) and Mark Hayter (chief sci-
entific officer), two executives whose processor design startups
were sold to Apple and Google. The company has opened offices
in Cambridge, U.K.; Bangalore, India; and Hsinchu, Taiwan, but it is
currently defending a suit by Apple alleging theft of trade secrets.

www.rivosinc.com

Salience Labs Ltd.

S London, England
Spun off from Imperial College London in November 2020, Salience
is developing a hybrid photonic/electronic IC for AI processing. The
photonic tensor processing unit can be modulated at 100 GHz and
allows for parallelization via multiplexing. The photonic unit is being
designed into an SoC to address AI inference. The technology is
based on a research collaboration between Oxford University and
the University of Münster, Germany.

www.saliencelabs.ai

SambaNova Systems Inc.

Palo Alto, California
SambaNova was founded in November 2017 to develop a comput-
ing platform for distributed machine learning. The technology is
based on research conducted in hardware and software labs of
Stanford University. In 2021, the company raised $676 million in
a Series D round of financing, which lifted the total raised by the
startup to $1.13 billion and its valuation to more than $5 billion. The
company is offering dataflow-as-a-service (DaaS), a subscription-
based, extensible AI services platform. DaaS is based on DataScale,
an integrated software and hardware systems platform, which in
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turn is based on algorithms and processors optimized for training,

inference, data analytics and high-performance computing.

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 SemiDrive Ltd.
Nanjing, China
SemiDrive, aka Nanjing SemiDrive Technology Ltd. or Nanjing
Xinchi Semiconductor Technology Co. Ltd., was founded in June
2018. The fabless chip company focuses on automotive SoCs and
MCUs used in ADAS, e-cockpit and other autonomous-driving and
intelligent-vehicle applications. The company was co-founded by
Maggie Qiu, who was previously general manager at design com-
pany Freescale Qiangxin IC as well as R&D director for the i.MX
product line at Freescale. In April 2023, SemiDrive appointed Cheng
Taiyi, former CEO of GigaDevices Semiconductor Inc., as its CEO.

www.semidrive.com

SemiFive Co. Ltd.

Seongnam, South Korea
Founded in 2019, SemiFive is a chip design service provider that
provides connection to foundries but has a strong relationship with
Samsung Foundry. With expertise in front-end to back-end design,
the company offers capabilities down to the leading edge.

www.semifive.com

SigmaSense LLC
Austin, Texas
Founded as 3AxisData in 2015, SigmaSense is pioneering a capaci-
tive imaging and sensing technology, called SigmaVision, that pro-
vides both touch and object detection on or close to the sensing
surface. It is applicable to products ranging from small wearables
to sensing surfaces exceeding 100 inches in dimension. The tech-
nology also supports high-hover touchless gestures near screens.
The company announced a license and co-development deal with
NXP Semiconductors in May 2023.

www.sigmasense.com
 Silicon Integrated Co. Ltd.
Wuhan, China
Silicon Integrated, aka Polycore Microelectronics or, more formally,
Wuhan Juxin Microelectronics Co. Ltd., develops mixed-signal ICs.
It was founded in January 2016 in Wuhan and has R&D centers in
Eindhoven, Netherlands, and in Shenzhen and Shanghai, China. The
company offers 3D time-of-flight image sensors, audio amplifiers
and pressure sensors.

www.si-in.com

SiMa Technologies Inc.

San Jose, California
SiMa Technologies has started shipping a 16-nm machine-learning
SoC that has been in development since the company’s founding in
2018. The company states that the chip addresses computer-vision
applications and delivers the most efficient frames per second per
watt in the industry. SiMa predicts applications for the chip in robot-
ics, smart vision, government, autonomous vehicles, drones and
healthcare. ML-supported surveillance is one opportunity.

www.sima.ai

SiPearl S.A.
Paris, France
SiPearl was founded in 2019 to implement the European Proces-
sor Initiative and support the deployment of a European exascale
supercomputer. The fabless company is collaborating with partners
in the EPI to develop the Rhea processor, an HPC-dedicated micro-
processor designed to work with any third-party accelerator (GPU,
AI or quantum). It has received funding support from the European
Union to enable European sovereignty in supercomputing for solv-
ing scientific, industrial and societal challenges. In April 2023, SiPearl
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raised €90 million in the initial closing of its Series A financing round
to commercialize Rhea in early 2024.

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 Soundskrit Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Founded in 2019, Soundskrit has developed a MEMS microphone
that it claims is inherently directional and therefore does away with
the need for microphone arrays to achieve directionality. The com-
pany has formed a partnership with AAC Technologies (Shenzhen,
China) to bring the microphone to market.

www.soundskrit.ca

Speedata Ltd.
Netanya, Israel
Founded in 2019, Speedata is working on a dedicated processor for
optimizing cloud-based database and analytic workloads. The ana-
lytics processor unit addresses three bottlenecks in analytics—I/O,
compute and memory—but maintains compatibility with legacy
software and requires no changes to an enterprise’s code or existing
framework.

www.speedata.io

Swave Photonics N.V.

Leuven, Belgium
Fabless semiconductor company Swave Photonics is a 2022 Imec
spinoff that designs and markets holographic chips based on
proprietary diffractive photonics. The technology uses sub-half-
wavelength pixels to reconstruct a 3D optical wavefront from
a 2D hologram. Swave’s mission is to enable holographic dis-
plays. Its chips are CMOS-compatible and are being designed in
20 × 20- and 5 × 5-mm formats. In November 2022, semiconduc-
tor industry veteran Mike Noonen took the helm from Théodore
Marescaux, who had guided the company through its initial tech-
nology development.

www.swave.io
 Syntiant Corp.
Irvine, California
Formed in 2017, Syntiant offers neural decision processors that
remove data-movement penalties by performing neural network
computations in flash memory. The company addresses edge AI
applications across a range of consumer and industrial use cases,
from earbuds to automobiles. The company has shipped more than
20 million chips and raised $120 million in funds since its formation.

www.syntiant.com

Tenstorrent Inc.
T Toronto, Canada
Founded in 2016, Tenstorrent is creating high-performance proces-
sor ASICs engineered for deep learning. The company’s software-
programmable processor is designed to excel at both learning
and inference, and the architecture scales from battery-powered
IoT devices to large cloud servers. The Tenstorrent team comprises
alumni from hardware companies like Nvidia and AMD. Former CTO
Jim Keller is now the company’s CEO.

www.tenstorrent.com

T-Head Semiconductor Co. Ltd.

Hangzhou, China
T-Head Semiconductor, aka PingTouGe (“honey badger”) Semicon-
ductor Co. Ltd., was formed in 2018 as a subsidiary of Chinese internet
shopping and streaming giant Alibaba Group Holding. T-Head was
chartered to develop a proprietary AI chipset and serve as a vehi-
cle for embedded processor IP licensor C-Sky Microsystems, which
Alibaba acquired in 2017. The company’s products now include the
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Xuantie CPU family of processors, three Wujian SoC platforms and

the Hanguang-800 AI processor.

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 Tsing Micro Co. Ltd.
Beijing, China
Tsing Micro, aka Beijing Tsingmicro Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd.,
is a 2018 startup focused on a coarse-grained reconfigurable archi-
tecture (CGRA) for processing and the architecture’s suitability to
host machine learning. CGRA is an architecture that can reconstruct
hardware resources to suit different applications or algorithms. The
company’s CGRA-based TX210 supports voice AI; the TX510 supports
voice and vision processing. The next generation, based on the TX8
core, is intended for use in data centers and cloud training.

www.tsingmicro.com

Uhnder Inc.
U Austin, Texas
Uhnder was founded in 2015 to develop an automotive radar-on-
chip (RoC). The company’s first product is designed into the Icon
radar from automotive supplier Magna. The S80 is a fully integrated,
77-GHz, 4D imaging RoC with digital code modulation. It is certified
for use in automotive safety applications, such as automatic emer-
gency braking, lane-keep assist, adaptive cruise control and blind-
spot detection, as well as automated-driving functions, including
autonomous vehicles. In April 2023, Uhnder announced a partner-
ship with bitsensing to develop 4D digital imaging radar to meet the
needs of OEMs in Korea.

www.uhnder.com

Untether AI Corp.
Toronto, Canada
Untether AI was founded in February 2018 and provides AI chips
that embody a neural network inference engine, based on bus-
free near-memory computing and enabled by software capable
of pre-placing data. The architecture is said to be scalable from
mobile devices to data centers. The technology is available today as
the runAI200 chips and the tsunAImi PCIe form-factor accelerator
cards.

www.untether.ai
 Useful Sensors Inc.
Mountain View, California
Useful Sensors was founded in March 2022 by Pete Warden and
Manjunath Kudlur, who were both founding members of Google’s
TensorFlow open-source machine-learning framework. The com-
pany makes sensors and hardware/software stacks with built-in
ML to enable such capabilities as anomaly and presence detection,
hand-gesture recognition and voice interfacing.

www.usefulsensors.com

V Vastai Technologies Inc.

Shanghai, China
Vastai Technologies is a computer vision and AI chip vendor with
R&D in Shanghai, Beijing and Toronto. The company was founded
in December 2018 by former AMD luminaries Jun Qian, today
Vastai’s CEO, and Louis Zhang, the startup’s CTO. In 2021, the com-
pany launched its first general-purpose AI inference chips, the SV100
series, and the VA1 general-purpose inference acceleration add-in
card for data centers.

www.vastaitech.com

Xanadu Quantum
Technologies Inc. X
Toronto, Canada
Founded in 2016, Xanadu Quantum Technologies designs and inte-
grates quantum silicon photonic chips into existing hardware to
create full-stack quantum computing. Enterprises and research-
ers can begin using Xanadu’s photonic quantum computers
through the Xanadu Quantum Cloud (XQC) service and Straw-
berry Fields application library. The company is also advancing the
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field of quantum machine learning through the development of

PennyLane, an open-source software library.

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 Xcom Labs Inc.
San Diego, California
Xcom Labs was founded in 2018 by Paul Jacobs, former Qualcomm
CEO, and Derek Aberle, Qualcomm’s former president and CTO. The
company has developed a high-bandwidth wireless network tech-
nology that it claims will bring the robustness and multi-user mobil-
ity needed for advanced VR and AR.

www.xcom-tech.com

X-Epic Corp.
Nanjing, China
X-Epic is focused on developing China’s industrial base for EDA soft-
ware technology. The company offers hardware emulation, FPGA-
based prototyping, formal verification, logic simulation, system
debug and cloud-based verification.

www.x-epic.com

xMEMS Labs Inc.

Santa Clara, California
A team of MEMS veterans and audio industry engineers with experi-
ence gained at Apple, InvenSense, Knowles and UltraChip founded
xMEMS Labs in January 2018. The company implements both actua-
tion and diaphragm functions in silicon. It has developed a series of
MEMS speakers for near-field audio in sealed earbuds and closed
headphones that can also operate as tweeters in unsealed head-
phones. The Santa Clara–based company has facilities for R&D and
other operations in Taiwan.

www.xmems.com
Yangtze Memory Technologies
Y
Co. Ltd.
Wuhan, China
Yangtze Memory Technologies was formed by the takeover of
Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (XMC), a volume
producer of NOR flash and image sensors, by Tsinghua Unigroup
in July 2016. YMTC is an integrated device manufacturer of compo-
nents ranging from 3D NAND flash memory wafers and chips to
embedded memory solutions and consumer and enterprise SSDs.
Its products are used in mobile devices, consumer electronics, com-
puters, servers and data centers.

www.ymtc.com

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 Video interview of
Peter Clarke, technology
journalist and curator
of Silicon 100
China Fabless 100
Ranking 2023 Reveals
Three Major Trends
in China’s IC Design
Industry
By Steve Gu

S ince the release of the first China

Fabless 100 ranking at the China IC
Leadership Summit in March 2021, the
global and Chinese semiconductor mar-
kets have undergone tremendous changes.
From the shortage of chips and tight wafer
production capacity in 2021 to the decline
in demand for PC/mobile phones and the
backlog of chip inventory in 2022, corporate
executives and engineers in the semicon-
ductor industry are riding a roller coaster. As
for China’s IC design market segment, the
number of domestic IC design companies
grew to more than 3,200 by the end of 2022,
among which 100 firms are publicly listed
on the stock market.
Selection criteria for China
Fabless 100 ranking
The fabless companies with the stron-
gest comprehensive strength and growth
potential in China’s IC design industry were
carefully selected by the AspenCore analyst
team based on quantitative mathematical
models, corporate public information, man-
ufacturer questionnaires and first-hand
interview materials. The companies select-
ed are divided into 10 categories (each com-
pany falls into only one category), and the
Top 10 for each category is decided by the
following selection criteria:
• The company’s headquarters is located
in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau
(Taiwan is excluded).
• Only fabless companies are qualified.
Integrated device manufacturers with
wafer fabs are excluded from the ranking.
•
Publicly listed companies are evaluated
and ranked according to the comprehen-
sive strength index and growth potential
index.
•
Non-publicly listed companies are evalu-
ated based on submitted and collected
materials (such as questionnaires and pro-
spectuses) and industry interviews.
•
The chip products independently devel-
oped and designed by the company have
been mass-produced and put into com-
mercial use or entered the supply chain of
mainstream OEMs.
•
Companies must possess a number of
technology patents and have strong
research and development capabilities as
well as design and application expertise.
Three major trends in China’s
IC design industry
First, the number of IC design com-
panies and overall revenue of the IC
design industry continue to grow steadily.
According to statistics from the China
Semiconductor Industry Association, there
are 3,243 domestic IC design companies in
China, compared with last year’s 2,810. How-
ever, the growth of the number of design
companies has declined for the first time in
recent years, indicating the over-invested IC
industry is gradually slowing down.
In 2022, China’s IC design industry reached
¥534.57 billion in revenue, a 16.5% increase
from ¥458.69 billion in 2021. Given the aver-
age exchange rate of 1:6.8 between the U.S.
dollar and yuan renminbi, the annual sales
are about $78.74 billion, accounting for
about 14% of the total sales of global semi-
conductor products.
Second, there are 100 publicly listed compa-
nies in China’s IC design industry, and it is
expected that the number will increase to
120 in 2023. Since we released the ranking of
70 publicly listed companies in 2022, there
have been many successful IPOs of domes-
tic IC design companies. As of the end of
2022, we compiled a total of 100 publicly list-
ed IC design companies. Based on the 2022
financial reports of these listed companies,
we selected some financial data—includ-
ing the revenue and profit of the past three
years (2020–2022), the number of R&D
personnel, the ratio of R&D investment
to revenue and the number of accumu-
lated patents—to quantitatively rank the
100 listed companies with comprehensive
strength index and growth potential index.
Third, the EDA/IP segment is booming. With
five months of investigation, interviews
and information collection, we released an
analysis report specifically targeting
domestic EDA and IP firms. As part of
the Fabless 100 series of industry analysis
reports, the EDA/IP report provides IC
design industry professionals with a com-
plete EDA and IP market landscape and
future development trend, with detailed
portraits of 35 domestic EDA tool providers
and 20 domestic IP developers.
The China Fabless 100 ranking has entered
its third year and has gradually been recog-
nized by the industry. Now, the ranking has
become the vane of China’s IC design indus-
try. As more domestic IC design companies
are going for IPO and successful listing on
the stock market, our ranking evaluation
database and quantitative analysis model
will be more complete and more accurate.
Thus, we can offer better decision-making
references for professionals in the semicon-
ductor and electronics industries, not only
for China but also for the global market.
Steve Gu
is senior industry analyst
of AspenCore China.
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Top 10 Analog
Companies
北京智芯微电子科技有限公 ICs. The company serves a customer base

司 of more than 5,000 worldwide through its

own sales offices and distributor networks
Beijing Smartchip like Avnet.
Micro Technology Co. www.sg-micro.com
Ltd.
Beijing
苏州纳芯微电子股份有限公
Founded: 2010
司
Executive(s): Dongyan Zhao
Key Products: Analog, controllers and Suzhou Novosense
telecom ICs Microlectronics Co.
Smartchip Microelectronics is a state- Ltd.
owned IC design firm with more than Suzhou
240 IC products covering security, process- Founded: 2013
ing, communications, sensing, RFID, mea- Executive(s): Shengying Wang
surement, AI and analog. Key Products: Analog and sensors
www.sgchip.sgcc.com.cn Novosense Microelectronics is a Chinese

圣邦微电子（北京）股份有限
analog and mixed-signal IC company focus-
ing on sensor, signal chain and power

公司 management applications. The company

provides semiconductor products and solu-
SG Micro Corp. tions for the automotive, industrial, commu-
Beijing nication and consumer electronics markets.
Founded: 2007 www.novosns.com
Executive(s): Shilong Zhang
Key Products: Analog and PMICs
SG Micro provides precision signal-
conditioning products like amplifiers and
comparators, buffers, current sensors, tem-
perature sensors, ADCs/DACs, analog and
RF switches, and interface products, as well
as energy-efficient power management
思瑞浦微电子科技(苏州)股份 上海艾为电子技术股份有限
有限公司 公司

3Peak Inc. Shanghai Awinic

Suzhou
Founded: 2012
Executive(s): Jiangang Wu
Key Products: Analog and PMICs
3Peak specializes in analog signal chain
technology and products, including analog
chips, mixed-signal front ends, power man-
agement ICs and embedded processors.
The company’s products can be found in
communications, industrial, security moni-
toring, medical and health, instrumenta-
tion, new energy and automotive industry
Technology Co. Ltd.
Shanghai
Founded: 2008
Executive(s): Hongjun Sun
Key Products: Analog and PMICs
Awinic is an analog and mixed-signal IC
design firm in China with five product
lines, including audio amplifiers, LED driv-
ers, power management, RF front ends and
sensors.
www.awinic.com

芯海科技（深圳）股份有限公
applications.

司
www.3peakic.com.cn

江苏帝奥微电子股份有限公 Chipsea Technologies

司 (Shenzhen) Corp.
Shenzhen
Dioo Microcircuits Co. Founded: 2003
Ltd. Jiangsu Executive(s): Guojian Lu
Nantong Key Products: Analog and sensors
Founded: 2010
Chipsea provides analog/mixed-signal SoCs,
Executive(s): Jianhong Ju
high-precision ADCs, battery management
Key Products: Analog and PMICs
ICs, MCUs and health-measurement sen-
Dioo Microcircuits is a specialty analog sors.
device provider offering operational amplifi-
www.chipsea.com
ers, power management ICs, analog signal-
processing chips and LED lighting driver
chips.
www.dioo.com
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杭州晶华微电子股份有限公 江苏润石科技有限公司
司 Jiangsu Runic
Hangzhou SDIC Technology Co. Ltd.
Wuxi
Microelectronics Inc.
Hangzhou
Founded: 2014
Founded: 2005 Executive(s): Ming Zhang, Jin Hu
Executive(s): Weishao Luo Key Products: Analog and PMICs
Key Products: Analog, sensors and
Runic Technology provides two main prod-
measurement ICs
uct lines in analog signal chain and power
SDIC is an analog and mixed-signal IC
management for the automotive, indus-
design firm specializing in industrial control
trial control and consumer electronics mar-
application ICs, measurement sensor ICs,
kets. Its signal-chain product line comprises
metrology ICs and digital temperature sen-
operational amplifiers, comparators, analog
sors.
switches, data converters, level switches,
sdicmicro.cn voltage reference sources and logic ICs.

昆腾微电子股份有限公司
Runic’s power management products
include LDOs, DC/DC devices, load switches,

KT Micro Co. Ltd. and reset and motor drivers.

www.run-ic.com
Beijing
Founded: 2006
Executive(s): Wei Sun
Key Products: Analog and audio SoCs
KT Micro specializes in analog and mixed-
signal ICs, including wireless audio trans-
ceiver ICs, FM/AM receiver ICs, USB audio
ICs, ADCs, DACs, and integrated ADC and
DAC ICs.
www.ktmicro.com
Top 10 Sensor
Companies
豪威集团-上海韦尔半导体股 格科微电子（上海）有限公司
份有限公司
OmniVision-Will GalaxyCore Inc.
Semiconductor Co. Shanghai

Ltd. Founded: 2003

Executive(s): Lixin Zhao
Shanghai
Key Products: CMOS image sensors
Founded: 2007
and DDIC drivers
Executive(s): Song Wang
Key Products: CMOS image sensors, GalaxyCore develops CMOS image sensors
TDDI drivers and PMICs and display driver ICs for mobile phones,
smart wearables, mobile payments, tablets,
The rebranded OmniVision, acquired by Will
notebooks, cameras and automotive elec-
Semiconductor, is the largest fabless com-
tronics. The company is now shifting from
pany in China and has been at the leading
the fabless to fab-lite model via its own CIS
edge of digital imaging, analog, and touch
process and production line.
and display solutions. The company’s prod-
https://en.gcoreinc.com
uct portfolio includes image sensors, ASICs,

上海灿瑞科技股份有限公司
CameraCubeChips, liquid crystal-on-silicon,
power management, touch/display solu-
tions and OVMed ISPs and cable modules,
Shanghai Orient-Chip
targeting automotive, medical, mobile,
surveillance, IoT/emerging and computing
Technology Co. Ltd.
Shanghai
applications.
Founded: 2005
www.ovt.com
Executive(s): Meicong Shen, Jie Luo
Key Products: Sensors and PMICs

Orient-Chip Semiconductor (OCS) special-

izes in diversified sensors and analog IC
products with its own packaging, testing
and assembly capacity, including magnetic
Silicon

sensors, PMICs, optical sensors, motor driver

ICs and mixed-signal ICs.
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思特威(上海)电子科技股份有 深圳市汇顶科技股份有限公
限公司 司
Smartsens Technology
(Shanghai) Co. Ltd. Shenzhen Goodix
Shanghai Technology Co. Ltd.
Founded: 2017 Shenzhen
Executive(s): Chen Xu Founded: 2002
Key Products: CMOS image sensors Executive(s): Fan Zhang/Yihua Hu
Key Products: Sensors, wireless audio
SmartSens is a CMOS image sensor provider
chips and analog devices
with advanced imaging solutions for appli­
cations like surveillance, machine vision, Goodix Technology is a Chinese fabless
industrial automation, automotive, mobile company providing sensors, touch control­
and emerging AI and metaverse platforms. lers, wireless connection, audio and security
The company develops core technologies, ICs for smart devices, AIoT, automobile and
such as SFCPixel, PixGain, HDR, BSI Global industrial applications.
Shutter and LED flicker suppression, to sup­ www.goodix.com
port its CIS product lines.
www.smartsenstech.com
苏州敏芯微电子技术股份有
限公司
奥比中光科技集团股份有限
公司
Suzhou MEMSensing
Microsystems Co. Ltd.
Orbbec Inc. Suzhou
Shenzhen Founded: 2007
Founded: 2013 Executive(s): Gang Li
Executive(s): Yuanhao Huang Key Products: MEMS and ASICs
Key Products: 3D sensors
MEMSensing is a Chinese MEMS sensor chip
Orbbec is an industry leader in 3D vision developer with such product lines as MEMS
technologies. The company has established acoustic sensors, MEMS pressure sensors,
a 3D vision technology system with full- MEMS inertial sensors, MEMS force sensors,
stack R&D capabilities and has taken various MEMS flow sensors and infrared thermopile
technology routes, offering depth-engine sensors.
ASIC chips, photosensitive chips, special
www.memsensing.com
optical systems and SDKs. Its products are
based on major 3D technologies, such as
structured light, time of flight and industrial
3D measurement.
www.orbbec3d.com
上海矽睿科技股份有限公司 上海申矽凌微电子科技股份
有限公司
QST Solutions Inc.
Shanghai Shanghai Sensylink
Founded: 2012 Microelectronics Co.
Executive(s): Jun Ye, Zhen Sun
Ltd.
Key Products: Magnetic sensors and
Shanghai
MEMS
Founded: 2015
QST specializes in MEMS, magnetic sensor Executive(s): Yu Wang
ICs and system-in-package smart sensors Key Products: Environmental sensors
and modules for consumer, industrial, auto- and analog devices
motive and IoT applications.
Sensylink develops sensing, analog and
www.qstcorp.com
mixed-signal IC products, including

赛卓电子科技（上海）股份有
environmental temperature and humidity

限公司
sensor ICs and interface ICs. The company’s
product portfolio covers a variety of preci-

Shanghai SemiMent sion and package options and can be used

in laptops/workstations, AI chips and CPU/
Technology Co. Ltd. GPU/FPGA temperature monitoring, as well
Shanghai as in wearables.
Founded: 2011
www.sensylink.com
Executive(s): Honggang Song
Key Products: Position, speed
and current sensors

SemiMent develops magnetic sensors, cur-

rent sensors and speed sensors for industrial
and automotive applications.
https://www.semiment.com Silicon
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Top 10 AI
Companies
北京地平线机器人技术研发 中科寒武纪科技股份有限公
有限公司 司
Beijing Horizon Cambricon
Robotics Technology Technologies
Co. Ltd. Corporation Ltd.
Beijing Beijing
Founded: 2015 Founded: 2016
Executive(s): Kai Yu Executive(s): Tianshi Chen
Key Products: Smart-driving and IoT Key Products: AI chips, AI accelerators
chips and AI modules

Horizon Robotics is one of the largest AI chip Cambricon Technology is the first publicly
startups in China, with total VC investment listed AI chip design company in China. Its
of more than $2.2 billion. The company’s Siyuan 370 AI chip and accelerator products
flagship AI chip, Journey 5, targets L3/L4 support cloud AI training with chiplet, 7-nm
autonomous driving and is now in mass pro- process and an updated MLU arch03 archi-
duction of vehicles with global and Chinese tecture.
automobile OEMs including Audi, Bosch, www.cambricon.com
Continental and BYD Auto.
https://horizon.cc
上海燧原科技有限公司
Enflame Technology
Co. Ltd.
Shanghai
Founded: 2018
Executive(s): Lidong Zhao
Key Products: AI chips and AI
accelerators

Enflame Technology specializes in AI train-

ing and reference for cloud computing and
data center markets. It offers the Suisi 2.5 AI
reference and Suisi 2.0 AI training chips to 深圳云天励飞技术股份有限
support its second-generation Cloudblazer
公司
AI accelerator cards, the i20 and T20.
https://www.enflame-tech.com
Shenzhen Intellifusion
Technologies Co. Ltd.
瀚博半导体(上海)有限公司
Shenzhen
Founded: 2014
Vastai Technologies Executive(s): Ning Chen
(Shanghai) Inc. Key Products: AI chips, smart
Shanghai terminals, AI solutions
Founded: 2018
Intellifusion focuses on three AI technology
Executive(s): Jun Qian
platforms: Arctern algorithms, Moss AI chips
Key Products: Cloud inference chips
and Matrix big datasets. Its AI chip DeepEye
and accelerators
2000 is integrated with total AI solutions
Vastai Tech provides high-efficiency for facial recognition and general smart-
video- and image-processing solutions with security applications.
its SV100 cloud AI reference chip and VA1 www.intellif.com
accelerator card.
www.vastaitech.com 亿智电子科技有限公司
Eeasy Technology Co.
黑芝麻智能科技有限公司 Ltd.
Black Sesame Zhuhai
Technologies Co. Ltd. Founded: 2016
Shanghai Executive(s): Feng Chen
Founded: 2017 Key Products: Edge and terminal
Executive(s): Jizhang Shan, AI chips
Weihong Liu
Eeasy Technology is a provider of systematic
Key Products: Smart-driving chips
solutions with AI machine-vision algorithms
Black Sesame Technologies is a Chinese and SoC design at the core. Its on-device
smart-driving chip and solution provider AI SoC product line consists of SV, SA and
with ISP and NPU core IP as well as the SH series offering system solutions with
Huashan series of auto-grade AI chips. diversified computing power for different

www.blacksesame.com.cn scenarios, such as smart security, smart

vehicles and smart devices.
www.eeasytech.com
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南京芯驰半导体科技有限公 深圳鲲云信息科技有限公司
司 Corerain Technologies
Nanjing SemiDrive Co. Ltd.
Technology Ltd. Shenzhen
Nanjing Founded: 2017
Founded: 2018 Executive(s): Xinyu Niu
Executive(s): Qiang Zhang, Taiyi Cheng Key Products: Data stream CAISA AI
Key Products: Smart-cockpit/ADAS chips
chips and auto-grade MCUs
Corerain Technologies develops Custom AI
SemiDrive Technology focuses on high- Streaming Architecture (CAISA)-based AI
reliability automotive-grade chips and chips and accelerator cards to support com-
solutions, including intelligent e-cockpits, mercial AI deployment in electric power, oil,
smart driving, gateways and MCUs. The industrial testing, smart-city and other AI
company targets the four most critical cat- applications.
egories of automotive electrical/electronic www.corerain.com
(E/E) architecture design, aiming for what
it calls “four chips in one, empowering the
vehicle with a soul.”
www.semidrive.com

爱芯元智半导体(上海)有限公
司
Axera Semiconductor
(Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
Shanghai
Founded: 2020
Executive(s): Xiaoxin Qiu, Jianwei Liu
Key Products: AI vision SoCs

Axera Semiconductor develops mixed-

precision NPU and AI-ISP technologies for
edge AI applications. Its AI SoC product line
consists of AX630A and AX620A series with a
high performance/efficiency ratio, targeting
smart network cameras, industrial cam-
eras, motion cameras, smart door-control
systems and equipment and other edge/
endpoint AI applications.
https://axera-tech.com
Top 10 Memory
Companies
兆易创新科技集团股份有限 to memory, the company is a supplier of

公司 microprocessors and video processors.

www.ingenic.com.cn
GigaDevice
澜起科技股份有限公司
Semiconductor Inc.
Beijing
Founded: 2005 Montage Technology
Executive(s): Wei He Co. Ltd.
Key Products: MCUs, memory and Shanghai
sensors Founded: 2004
GigaDevice is one of the largest fabless com- Executive(s): Howard Yang
panies in China and is the largest Chinese Key Products: Memory interface
MCU supplier, with both Cortex-M–based controllers and server CPUs
and RISC-V–based MCU product lines. Montage Technology is a memory interface
More than 50% of the company’s 2022 rev- chip and controller provider for cloud com-
enue came from its NAND flash business. puting and data centers in global markets.
The sensor product line was acquired from Its product lines include DDR2–DDR5 mem-
Silead in 2020. ory interface chips, PCIe/CXL retimers, MXC
www.gigadevice.com and CKD chips and server CPUs.
www.montage-tech.com
北京君正集成电路股份有限
公司 深圳市江波龙电子股份有限
Ingenic 公司
Semiconductor Co. Ltd. Shenzhen Longsys
Beijing Electronics Co. Ltd.
Founded: 2005 Shenzhen
Executive(s): Qiang Liu Founded: 1999
Key Products: Memory, processors and Executive(s): Huabo Cai
interface ICs Key Products: NAND flash, DRAM and
Silicon

Through its acquisition of ISSI, Ingenic has storage

become one of the largest memory chip Longsys is a memory and storage solu-
design companies in China. In addition tion provider with its own module pack-

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age and testing facilities. Its product lines 深圳佰维存储科技股份有限
include embedded storage, industrial stor-
公司
age, mobile storage, SSD storage and DRAM
modules. The company’s Foresee product Biwin Storage
line is for industrial and automotive applica- Technology Co. Ltd.
tions, and the acquired Lexar product line Shenzhen
is for the consumer and personal storage Founded: 2010
market. Executive(s): Chengsi Sun
www.longsys.com Key Products: NAND flash, DRAM and
storage

聚辰半导体股份有限公司 Biwin Storage provides high-quality flash

storage products and solutions for the OEM/
Giantec ODM, consumer and industrial markets. Its
Semiconductor Corp. 110,000-square-meter manufacturing facil-
Shanghai ity houses packaging, testing and produc-
Founded: 2009 tion lines.
Executive(s): Zuotao Chen www.biwin.com.cn
Key Products: E2PROMs
Giantec Semiconductor has three main
深圳市德明利技术股份有限
公司
product lines—E2PROMs, VCM drivers and
smart cards—which are widely used in
smartphones, LCD panels, Bluetooth mod- Shenzhen
ules, computers and peripherals, medical Techwinsemi
devices and other consumer and industrial Technology Co. Ltd.
markets. Shenzhen
www.giantec-semi.com Founded: 2008

东芯半导体股份有限公司
Executive(s): Hua Tian
Key Products: NAND Flash/DRAM

Dosilicon Co. Ltd. memory/storage

Shanghai Techwinsemi provides flash memory mod-

ules and storage solutions. Its IC product
Founded: 2014
lines include flash controllers, touch control-
Executive(s): Xueming Jiang
lers and VCSEL optical chips.
Key Products: NAND flash, NOR flash,
DRAM and MCPs www.techwinsemi.com

Dosilicon is a fabless company in the mem-

ory market. Its product lines include NAND/
NOR flash and DRAM chips.
www.dosilicon.com
普冉半导体(上海)股份有限公 恒烁半导体(合肥)股份有限公
司 司
Puya Semiconductor Zbit Semiconductor
(Shanghai) Co. Ltd. Inc.
Shanghai Hefei
Founded: 2016 Founded: 2015
Executive(s): Nan Wang Executive(s): Xiangdong Lu
Key Products: Flash memory and Key Products: SPI NOR flash
E PROMs
2
Zbit Semiconductor provides MCU and
Puya Semiconductor develops low-power SPI flash memory chips for IoT and edge
SPI NOR flash and high-reliability I C 2
computing applications. The company is
E PROM ICs, targeting consumer, industrial,
2
developing NOR-flash–based compute-in-
automobile and IoT applications. memory AI chips with its own CiNOR tech-
www.puyasemi.com nology.
www.zbitsemi.com

Top 10 PMIC
Companies
杰华特微电子股份有限公司 上海贝岭股份有限公司
JoulWatt Technology Shanghai Belling Co.
Co. Ltd. Ltd.
Hangzhou Shanghai
Founded: 2013 Founded: 1988
Executive(s): Biliang Huang Executive(s): Yi Qin, Kun Yang
Key Products: PMICs, BMS and LED Key Products: PMICs, metering SoCs
drivers and analog
JoulWatt Technology is a Chinese power Shanghai Belling was the first Chinese
management IC supplier with product lines IC design firm to go public, listing on the
covering battery management, LED light- Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1998. The
ing and DC/DC converters. company provides a variety of IC products,
Silicon

www.joulwatt.com including power management, energy

measurement, MOSFETs, motor drivers,
E2PROMs and ADCs.
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深圳天德钰科技股份有限公 无锡力芯微电子股份有限公
司 司
Jadard Technology Wuxi Etek Microelec-
Inc. tronics Co. Ltd.
Shenzhen Wuxi
Founded: 2010 Founded: 2002
Executive(s): Yinglin Guo Executive(s): Minmin Yuan
Key Products: PMICs and DDICs Key Products: PMICs, analog and
Jadard Technology specializes in LED/LCD drivers
display driver ICs for human-computer– Etek Microelectronics develops PMIC,
interaction applications. The company’s LED driver and signal-chain ICs for mobile
product lines include mobile terminal dis- phones, wearables and other consumer
play driver ICs, camera voice coil motor electronics.
driver ICs, fast-charging–protocol chips and www.etek.com.cn
electronic price-tag driver ICs.
www.tdytech.com
上海晶丰明源半导体股份有
限公司
深圳英集芯科技股份有限公
司
Shanghai Bright Pow-
er Semiconductor Co.
Shenzhen Injoinic Ltd.
Technology Co. Ltd. Shanghai
Shenzhen Founded: 2008
Founded: 2014 Executive(s): Liqiang Hu
Executive(s): Hongwei Huang Key Products: PMICs and LED drivers
Key Products: PMICs and charging
Bright Power Semiconductor is a supplier in
SoCs
the general-purpose and smart LED lighting
Injoinic Technology provides power man- driver market. By acquiring two specialty IC
agement ICs and fast-charge–protocol chips design firms, the company is strengthening
for mobile power supplies, fast-charging its AC/DC charging IC and motor control/
adapters, wireless chargers and TWS head- driver chip product lines.
set-charging bins and other consumer elec-
www.bpsemi.com
tronics products. The company is developing
cost-effective digital-analog hybrid chips
and SoC solutions for smart battery manage-
ment systems.
www.injoinic.com
深圳市明微电子股份有限公 深圳市必易微电子股份有限
司 公司
Shenzhen Sunmoon Shenzhen Kiwi Instru-
Microelectronics Co. ments Co. Ltd.
Ltd. Shenzhen
Shenzhen Founded: 2014
Founded: 2003 Executive(s): Pengcun Xie
Executive(s): Lekang Wang, Zhaohua Li Key Products: LED drivers, PMICs and
Key Products: LED drivers and PMICs BMS

Sunmoon Microelectronics provides Kiwi Instruments develops LED lighting

general-purpose and smart LED light-
ing drivers, mini/micro LED display drivers,
linear power supply chips and PMICs for
display screens, smart-lighting and scene-
lighting applications.
www.chinaasic.com
driver ICs, power supply ICs and battery
charger ICs for consumer electronics, home
appliance and IoT applications.
www.kiwiinst.com

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Top 10 Power Device
Companies
嘉兴斯达半导体股份有限公 power semiconductor design company in

司 China. Its product lines include GreenMOS,

SGTMOS, IGBTs, SiC devices and hybrid
StarPower FETs. The company targets EV charger, PV
Semiconductor Co. inverter, SMPS, motor driver and other ap-
Ltd. plications.
Jiaxing www.orientalsemi.com
Founded: 2005
Executive(s): Hua Shen 无锡新洁能股份有限公司
Key Products: IGBTs, MOSFETs, IPMs,
FRDs, rectifiers
Wuxi NCE Power Co.
Ltd.
StarPower Semiconductor is a power IC and Wuxi
module provider in China. The company Founded: 2013
provides IGBT, MOSFET, IPM, FRD and recti- Executive(s): Yuaznzheng Zhu
fier modules for inverter, welding machine, Key Products: MOSFETs and IGBTs
inductive heating, UPS, EV and solar/wind
power applications. NCE Power specializes in R&D of

www.starpowereurope.com power-switching devices, including trench

power MOSFETs, medium- and low-voltage

苏州东微半导体股份有限公
shielded gate power MOSFETs, high-

司
voltage superjunction MOSFETs and IGBTs.
The company’s products cover the voltage
Suzhou Oriental range of –100 V to 1,350 V and have been

Semiconductor Co. used in IoT, AI and data center, 5G commu-

Ltd. nication and new-energy applications.

Suzhou www.ncepower.com

Founded: 2008
Executive(s): Yi Gong
Key Products: GreenMOS, SFGMOS,
IGBTs and SiC

Oriental Semiconductor is a high-performance

江苏宏微科技股份有限公司 and automotive and consumer electronics.

MacMic Science and www.jjwdz.com

Technology Co. Ltd.

无锡芯朋微电子股份有限公
司
Changzhou
Founded: 2006
Executive(s): Shanqi Zhao Wuxi Chipown
Key Products: IGBTs, FREDs and Microelectronics Ltd.
MOSFETs Wuxi
MacMic specializes in design, develop- Founded: 2005
ment, manufacturing and marketing of Executive(s): Lixin Zhang, Yangbo Yi
power semiconductor devices, including Key Products: HV and LV power ICs
IGBTs, VDMOS, FRED chips and discrete
Chipown Microelectronics is a pioneer in
devices, and standard and customer-
high-voltage integrated switching power
specific power modules. The company pro-
technology with products ranging from
vides high-performance and power-efficient
700 V.
solutions for power electronic equipment
www.chipown.com.cn
and systems, such as SMPS and UPS sys-

上海芯导电子科技股份有限
tems, inverters and converters.

公司
www.macmicst.com

江苏捷捷微电子股份有限公 Shanghai Prisemi

司 Electronics Co. Ltd.
Jiangsu Jiejie Shanghai

Microelectronics Co. Founded: 2009

Ltd.
Qidong
Founded: 1995
Executive(s): Shanbing Huang, Jian
Huang
Key Products: Bipolar junction
transistors, MOSFETs and PMICs
Jiejie Microelectronics specializes in design
and manufacturing of discrete semiconduc-
tor components, MOSFETs and power ICs
and modules, which are widely used in fast
chargers, charging stations, switched-mode
Executive(s): Xinhua Ou
Key Products: Power ICs, OVPs, TVS
devices and PMICs
Prisemi focuses on the design and devel-
opment of power protection and drive
products, including charge ICs, overvoltage
protectors, audio power amplifiers, GaN ICs,
DC/DC converters and power devices like
ESD and EOS/TVS devices, MOSFETs, GaN
HEMTs, transistors and Schottky diodes.
www.prisemi.com
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power supplies, motor driving, photovoltaic

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苏州锴威特半导体股份有限 and new-energy applications.

公司 www.vgsemi.com

Suzhou Convert
Semiconductor Co. 派恩杰半导体（杭州）有限公
Ltd. 司
Suzhou Hangzhou PN Junction
Founded: 2015 Semiconductor Co.
Executive(s): Yin Luo Ltd.
Key Products: MOSFETs, PMICs and Hangzhou
optoelectronics Founded: 2018
Executive(s): Xing Huang
Convert Semiconductor provides three
Key Products: SiC MOSFETs and GaN
main product lines—discrete devices,
HEMTs
optoelectronic devices and PMICs—
covering high-voltage power MOSFETs, PN Junction Semiconductor is a fabless
FRD-integrated MOSFETs, SiC Schottky bar- startup specializing in wide-bandgap semi-
rier diodes, SiC MOSFETs, photo triacs, photo conductor power devices. The company
MOSFETs, PVGs, high-speed optocouplers, provides automotive-grade SiC MOSFETs,
IGBTs and IPMs. SiC Schottky barrier diodes and GaN power
www.convertsemi.com devices.

深圳市威兆半导体股份有限
www.pnjsemi.com

公司
Shenzhen Vergiga
Semiconductor Co.
Ltd.
Shenzhen
Founded: 2012
Executive(s): Weicong Li
Key Products: MOSFETs, IGBTs and SiC
MOS

Vergiga Semiconductor focuses on

power device development and applica-
tions with low-, medium- and high-voltage
series of power MOSFET and IGBT discrete
devices and modules, as well as special pro-
cess design capabilities. Its products are
widely used in PCs/servers, consumer elec-
tronics, communication power supplies,
industrial control, automotive electronics
Top 10 MCU
Companies
上海复旦微电子集团股份有 focuses on industrial and automotive-grade

限公司 MCU products as well as mixed-signal ana-

log ICs and SoCs. With a state-of-the-art auto
Shanghai Fudan IC testing lab and an R&D team over 500
Microelectronics engineers, Geehy is positioned to become
Group Co. Ltd. a world-class IC provider in both China and
Shanghai the global market.

Founded: 1998 www.geehy.com

Executive(s): Lei Shi
Key Products: MCUs, security ICs, 小华半导体有限公司
memory ICs and FPGAs
Xiaohua
Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group
(FMSH) is the first Chinese fabless com-
Semiconductor Co.
pany listed on both the Hong Kong Stock Ltd.
Exchange and the STAR Market of the Shanghai
Shanghai Stock Exchange. The company is Founded: 2021
an MCU supplier in the smart-meter and Executive(s): Zhongguo Chen
ID security solution markets. FMSH’s other Key Products: MCUs
product lines include security ICs, memories Xiaohua Semiconductor is an MCU design
and FPGAs. firm spun off from Huada Semiconductor,
www.fmsh.com the integrated-circuit business of China
Electronics Corp. (CEC). With more than

极海微电子股份有限公司 300 R&D engineers, the company is an

MCU supplier for industrial applications.
Geehy Its MCU product line includes general-
Microelectronics Co. purpose MCUs, motor-control MCUs, low-
Ltd. power MCUs and auto-grade MCUs.
Zhuhai https://www.xhsc.com.cn
Founded: 2004
Executive(s): Dongjie Wang
Silicon

Key Products: MCUs and SoCs

Geehy Semiconductor is a fabless com-
pany wholly owned by Ninestar Corp. Geehy

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国民技术股份有限公司 钜泉光电科技(上海)股份有限
Nations Technologies 公司
Inc. Hi-trend Technology
Shenzhen (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
Founded: 2000 Shanghai
Executive(s): Yingtong Sun Founded: 2005
Key Product(s): MCUs, security ICs, RF Executives(s): Wenchang Zheng
and power Key Product(s): Meter SoCs and MCUs
Nations Technologies is a fabless company Hi-trend Technology is a fabless company
that specializes in general MCUs and secu- owned by Beijing Smartchip Micro. The
rity ICs. With offices across China, Singapore, company specializes in metering chips,
Japan and the U.S., the company provides MCUs and powerline carrier chips.
general MCUs, security ICs, trusted comput-
www.hitrendtech.com
ing ICs, smart-card ICs, Bluetooth ICs and

中微半导体(深圳)股份有限公
RCC products.

司
www.nationstech.com

中颖电子股份有限公司 Shenzhen China Micro

Sino Wealth Electronic
Ltd.
Shanghai
Founded: 1994
Executives(s): Yonghao Song
Key Product(s): MCUs and PMICs
Sino Wealth Electronic is an MCU provider
in China’s home appliance market. The
company has gradually expanded its prod-
uct lines into lithium battery management
chips and AMOLED display driver ICs.
www.sinowealth.com
Semicon Co. Ltd.
Shenzhen
Founded: 2001
Executives(s): Yan Zhou
Key Product(s): MCUs and SoCs
China Micro Semicon (Cmsemicon) is an
IC design company with MCUs at its core,
extending to mixed-signal chips and analog
chips. Its main product lines include auto-
motive ICs, home appliance control ICs, con-
sumer electronics ICs, motor and battery
controllers, sensor signal-processing chips
and power devices.
www.mcu.com.cn
青岛东软载波科技股份有限
公司
Qingdao Eastsoft
Communication
Technology Co. Ltd.
Qingdao
Founded: 1993
Key Executive(s): Song Pan
Key Product(s): MCUs and PLCs
Eastsoft Communication Technology is an
integrated communication platform pro-
vider, laying out the industrial chain of
“chip, module, terminal, system and infor-
mation service.” The company focuses on
the energy grid and emerging IoT market,
especially in the field of powerline carrier
communication and AMI communication
solutions like G3-PLC, RF and hybrid com-
munication applications.
http://eastsoft.com.cn/home
上海芯旺微电子技术股份有
限公司
Shanghai ChipON
Microelectronics
Technology Co. Ltd
Shanghai
Founded: 2012
Key Executive(s): Xiaobing Ding
Key Product(s): Automotive-grade
MCUs
ChipON develops high-performance mixed-
signal MCU and DSP products based on its
own, independent IP Kungfu core processor
architecture. Building on its new ecosystem
of high-end chips from core design to tool-
chain and IDE, the company provides high-
reliability, low-power MCUs and application
solutions for the automotive, industrial, AloT,
telecom and power grid markets.
www.chipon-ic.com

峰岹科技（深圳）股份有限公
司
Fortior Technology
(Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.
Shenzhen
Founded: 2010
Key Executive(s): Lei Bi
Key Product(s): MCUs
Fortior Technology is a specialist in the field
of motor control applications. The company
provides high-quality driver and control
IC chips for various motor systems, as well
as motor technology consulting services.
Its microcontroller chips are widely used
in industrial equipment, motion control,
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power tools, consumer electronics, AI and

robotics, IT and communications, and other
driver control applications.
www.fortiortech.com

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Top 10 Processor
Companies
紫光国芯微电子股份有限公 computing processor products power a

司 variety of computing applications, including

AI, cloud computing, data mining and web
Unigroup Guoxin applications.
Microelectronics Co. www.hygon.cn
Ltd.
Beijing
晶晨半导体（上海）股份有限
Founded: 2001
公司
Executive(s): Daojie Ma
Key Products: Security ICs, power Amlogic (Shanghai)
devices and FPGAs Co. Ltd.
Guoxin Micro is one of the largest Chinese IC Shanghai
design companies, with a product portfolio Founded: 2003
that includes security ICs, special-purpose Executive(s): John Zhong
processors and FPGA chips, memory ICs, Key Products: Multimedia SoCs
power devices and crystal oscillators. Amlogic specializes in developing multime-
www.gosinoic.com dia SoCs, UHD multimedia processing, con-
tent security protection, advanced CPU and

海光信息技术股份有限公司 GPU solutions for STB, smart home, smart

vision, wireless connectivity and automotive
Hygon Information electronics.
Technology Co. Ltd. www.amlogic.com
Tianjin
Founded: 2014
Executive(s): Chaoqun Sha
Key Products: Server CPUs and DCUs
Hygon is a high-performance x86-
compatible CPU and data co-processor
unit (DCU) developer in China, and the
company was publicly listed on the STAR
Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange
in 2022. Hygon server CPU/DCU and deep
湖南国科微电子股份有限公 上海安路信息科技股份有限
司 公司
Hunan Goke Shanghai Anlogic
Microelectronics Co. Infotech Co. Ltd.
Ltd. Shanghai
Changsha Founded: 2011
Founded: 2008 Executive(s): Yuchuan Ma/Liguang
Executive(s): Ping Xiang Chen
Key Products: Video processors and Key Products: FPGAs and SoCs
memory controllers Anlogic develops FPGA chips, FPSoCs,
Goke Microelectronics develops SSD storage FPGA-specific EDA software, and FPGA
controllers; HD/4K/8K video-encoding and testing and application solutions for MIPI
-decoding processors; and BeiDou satellite and TCON displays, LED screens, industrial
navigation and positioning chips and appli- automation and consumer electronics.
cation solutions for smart set-top boxes, IoT www.anlogic.com
devices and storage.
www.gokemicro.com 瑞芯微电子股份有限公司
Rockchip Electronics
上海富瀚微电子股份有限公 Co. Ltd.
司 Fuzhou
Shanghai Fullhan Founded: 2001
Microelectronics Co. Executive(s): Min Li

Ltd. Key Products: Multimedia SoCs and

application processors
Shanghai
Rockchip applies its experience in proces-
Founded: 2004
sor and analog-digital mixed-signal chip
Executive(s): Xiaoqi Yang
design, multimedia processing and imag-
Key Products: Video processors
ing algorithms to focus on the intelligent
Fullhan Micro provides H.264 codec SoCs,
IoT market. In addition to processor chips,
image signal processors and video process
the company provides PMICs, analog-
solutions for the smart security, IoT and auto
digital mixed-signal chips and optoelec-
markets.
tronic products.
www.fullhan.com
www.rock-chips.com
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珠海全志科技股份有限公司
Allwinner Technology
Co. Ltd.
Zhuhai
Founded: 2007
Executive(s): Jianhui Zhang/Longsheng
Li
Key Products: Multimedia SoCs and
application processors
Allwinner Technology provides UHD video
processing, multicore CPU/GPU integra-
tion with AI and complete turnkey solutions
for industrial control, smart-home, smart-
hardware, tablet, automotive electronics,
robot, virtual-reality and OTT box products.
www.allwinnertech.com
龙芯中科技术股份有限公司
Loongson Technology
Corp.
Beijing
Founded: 2008
Executive(s): Weiwu Hu
Key Products: Embedded and PC CPUs
Loongson is a Chinese CPU chip and system
developer with core computing technolo-
gies on CPU instruction set architecture
design (LoongArch), processor IP cores and
operating systems. Its CPU chips and com-
puting solutions are designed for PCs, serv-
ers and embedded systems.
www.loongson.cn

长沙景嘉微电子股份有限公
司
Changsha Jingjia
Microelectronics Co.
Ltd.
Changsha
Founded: 2006
Executive(s): Wanhui Zeng
Key Products: GPUs
Jingjia Micro is a Chinese GPU chip and
graphic computing solutions provider,
offering its JM5, JM7 and JM9 series GPUs.
Its GPU technology and products support
high-end display and AI computing applica-
tions like geographical information systems,
multimedia processing, CAD design, gam-
ing and virtualization.
www.jingjiamicro.com
Top 10 Wireless
Companies
深圳市中科蓝讯科技股份有 such AIoT applications as low-power smart

限公司 Bluetooth earphones, Type-C earphones

and smart speakers.
Shenzhen Bluetrum www.bestechnic.com
Technology Co. Ltd.
乐鑫信息科技（上海）股份有
Shenzhen

限公司
Founded: 2016
Executive(s): Zhiqiang Huang, Zhuzhan
Liu Espressif Systems
Key Products: Wireless SoCs (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
Shanghai
Bluetrum specializes in development of
Founded: 2008
low-power, high-performance wireless
Executive(s): Ruian Zhang
audio SoCs, with product lines including
Key Products: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and
TWS headset chips, non-TWS Bluetooth
AIoT chips
headset chips, Bluetooth speaker ICs and
smart wearable SoCs. Espressif offers integrated, reliable and
www.bluetrum.com energy-efficient wireless SoCs support-

恒玄科技（上海）股份有限公
ing Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE),
Thread, Zigbee and AI functions. The com-

司 pany provides worldwide customers with

the ESP8266, ESP32, ESP32-S, ESP32-C and
Bestechnic (Shanghai) ESP32-H series of chips, modules and devel-
Co. Ltd. opment boards.
Shanghai www.espressif.com
Founded: 2015
Executive(s): Guoguang Zhao
Key Products: TWS and Bluetooth SoCs

Bestechnic is a supplier of smart audio

SoCs in China, providing customers with
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edge intelligence platform chips with

voice-interaction capabilities for use in

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炬芯科技股份有限公司 珠海市杰理科技股份有限公
Actions Technology 司
Co. Ltd. Zhuhai Jieli
Zhuhai Technology Co. Ltd.
Founded: 2014 Zhuhai
Executive(s): Zhengyu Zhou Founded: 2010
Key Products: Bluetooth audio SoCs Executive(s): Yihui Wang
Key Products: TWS and Bluetooth
Actions Technology develops wireless audio
codec chips
SoCs for low-power wireless communica-
tion, multimedia processing, smartwatch Jieli Technology provides Bluetooth audio
and other IoT applications. Its main product SoCs and wireless communication chips
lines include Bluetooth audio SoCs, portable used in TWS headsets, Bluetooth speakers,
audio and video SoCs and intelligent voice- smart speakers, smartwatches and medical
interaction SoCs. devices.
www.actions-semi.com www.zh-jieli.com

博通集成电路（上海）股份有 泰凌微电子（上海）股份有限
限公司 公司
Beken Corp. Telink Semiconductor
Shanghai
(Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
Founded: 2004 Shanghai
Executive(s): Pengfei Zhang
Founded: 2010
Key Products: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Executive(s): Wenjun Sheng
wireless chips
Key Products: Wireless IoT chips

Beken is a wireless communication SoC

supplier in China developing wireless data
transmission and wireless audio/video chips
like auto-grade ETC, Wi-Fi and TWS headset
Bluetooth chips.
www.bekencorp.com
Telink specializes in wireless technol-
ogy and chip development supporting
classic Bluetooth, BLE, Zigbee, Matter,
Thread and other private wireless connec-
tion protocols. Its wireless chips are widely
used in smart homes, wearables, wireless
audio equipment, human-interface devices
and emerging IoT applications.
www.telink-semi.com
重庆物奇微电子股份有限公 苏州速通半导体科技有限公
司 司
Chongqing Wuqi Senscomm
Micro Co. Ltd. Semiconductor
Chongqing Technology Co. Ltd.
Founded: 2018 Suzhou
Executive(s): Jiansheng Zheng Founded: 2018
Key Products: Wi-Fi, BLE and AI chips Executive(s): Hyunjung Lee
Key Products: Wi-Fi 6 chips
Wuqi Microelectronics is a short-range
wireless communications technology and Senscomm is a Wi-Fi 6 fabless startup with
chip developer in China with product lines Wi-Fi 6 station device, AIoT and access point
ranging from Wi-Fi 4/6 chips, BLE SoCs router chipsets based on its own RF and
for TWS earphones and AI chips for AIoT baseband IPs.
applications.
www.senscomm.com
www.wuqi-micro.com

上海移芯通信科技有限公司
Shanghai Eigencomm
Technologies Ltd.
Shanghai
Founded: 2017
Executive(s): Shi Liu
Key Products: NB-IoT chips

Eigencomm specializes in 5G cellular com-

munication and NB-IoT applications with
low-cost, low-power NB-IoT and Cat.1bis
chips designed for cellular-based IoT appli-
cations.
www.eigencomm.com
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Top 10
Communication
Companies
紫光展锐（上海）科技有限公 上海海思技术有限公司
司 Shanghai HiSilicon
Unisoc (Shanghai) Technology Co. Ltd.
Technologies Co. Ltd. Shanghai
Shanghai Founded: 2018
Founded: 2013 Executive(s): Minglu Zhao/Ji Gao
Executive(s): Shengwu Wu, Qiwei Ren Key Products: Cellular communication,
Key Products: Cellular communication processor and IoT chips
and IoT chips
HiSilicon is a global fabless semicon-
Unisoc is a cellular communication ductor company founded in 1991 by
chip design company with more than Huawei. The company’s processor prod-
5,000 employees globally. It is one of a few uct lines include Kirin, Huawei Ascend,
companies in the world capable of devel- Kunpeng, Balong and Gigahome. The
oping 2G/3G/4G/5G technologies, products products target media and entertainment,
and solutions. Its product portfolio includes smart-home, city management, efficiency,
5G mobile communication processors, ADAS, e-cockpit and V2X applications.
baseband chips, AI chipsets, RF front-end www.hisilicon.com/cn
chips and IoT chips.
www.unisoc.com
深圳市中兴微电子技术有限 裕太微电子股份有限公司
公司 Motorcomm Electronic
Technology Co. Ltd.
Sanechips Technology Shanghai
Co. Ltd. Founded: 2017
Shenzhen Key Executive(s): Yufei Ouyang
Founded: 2003 Key Products: Ethernet network chips
Executive(s): Zhijun Long
Motorcomm specializes in Ethernet net-
Key Products: Cellular communication
work chip development, with product lines
and network chips
including Ethernet physical-layer chips,
Sanechips is a cellular communication IC Ethernet automotive chips, Ethernet switch
design company in China focusing on com- chips and Ethernet network card chips.
munication chipsets for communication www.motor-comm.com
networks, smart homes and industrial ap-
plications. A wholly owned subsidiary of
江苏卓胜微电子股份有限公
ZTE, Sanechips has successfully developed
more than 100 chips and advanced solu-
司
tions, serving more than 160 countries and Maxscend
regions around the world. Microelectronics
www.sanechips.com.cn Company Ltd.
Wuxi
南京国博电子股份有限公司 Founded: 2012

Guobo Electronics Co. Executive(s): Zhihan Xu

Key Products: RF chips and modules
Ltd.
Nanjing Maxscend is one of the RF front-end sup-
Founded: 2000 pliers in China, with product lines including
Executive(s): Bin Mei, Ya Shen RF switches, RF low-noise amplifiers, RF
Key Products: T/R components and RF receiver modules and Wi-Fi RF front-end
devices components. The company is expanding its
product portfolio with wireless Bluetooth
Guobo Electronics specializes in active Low Energy (BLE) MCU processors.
phased-array T/R components and RF mod-
www.maxscend.com
ules consisting of low-noise amplifiers,
power amplifiers, limiters, phase shifters
and other components. Its RF devices are
used in wireless communication base sta-
tions and systems.
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www.gbdz.net

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创耀(苏州)通信科技股份有限 唯捷创芯（天津）电子技术股
公司 份有限公司
Triductor Technology Vanchip (Tianjin)
(Suzhou) Inc. Technology Co. Ltd.
Suzhou Tianjin
Founded: 2006 Founded: 2010
Executive(s): Yaolong Tan Executive(s): Yijun Sun
Key Products: Broadband access Key Products: RF front-end
network chips components

Triductor Technology is a chip design and Vanchip focuses on RF front-end mod-

services company for broadband access and
smart-home communication solutions. The
company develops communication algo-
rithms and system software and undertakes
digital circuit design and analog design
related to powerline-communication (PLC)
chips and access network chips.
www.triductor.com
ules and high-end analog chips for mobile
phones, including RF power amplifiers
and PA modules, RF switches and Wi-Fi RF
front-end modules. RF power amplifiers, as
the company’s flagship products, are mainly
used in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile phones and
data cards.
www.vanchip.com

深圳市力合微电子股份有限 翱捷科技股份有限公司
公司 ASR Microelectronics
Leaguer (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.
Microelectronics Corp. Shanghai
Shenzhen Founded: 2015
Founded: 2002 Executive(s): Baojia Dai
Executive(s): Zhen He, Kun Liu Key Products: Cellular communication
Key Products: Powerline- and IoT chips
communication chips
ASR Microelectronics has been focus-
Leaguer Microelectronics is an industry ing on R&D and technological innovation
leader in new-generation narrowband and of wireless chips. The company’s product
high-speed PLCs based on Z-OFDM tech- lines include baseband communication
nology. The company focuses on PLC ASIC chips, multiprotocol non-cellular IoT chips,
products and module solutions for smart- high-speed SoC customization and semi-
things connectivity in smart-grid AMR conductor licensing services.
systems, smart homes, street-light control www.asrmicro.com
and other IoT applications.
www.leaguerme.com
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