Openedges

Market position

OPENEDGES presents itself as the only provider of a combined total memory subsystem and AI IP platform, reporting more than 40 customers worldwide and over 80 IPs applied in ASIC/ASSP projects. It received an AA grade in a preliminary technical assessment by credit bureau NICE D&B in January 2022, was selected as a global ICT future unicorn company in May 2020 and as an outstanding company in the system semiconductor field of Korea's BIG3 new industry program by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups in December 2020.

The company emphasizes that its memory controller, PHY, interconnect and NPU IP are designed to work together as an integrated subsystem, providing synergy and resource efficiency, with claimed advantages in power consumption, area and DRAM bandwidth optimization, alongside silicon proof points at leading foundries and automotive ASIL-B certification.

Technology

The IP portfolio spans a DDR memory controller (OMC), high-speed DDR PHY (OPHY) supporting LPDDR5X/5/4X/4, GDDR6 and HBM3, a network-on-chip bus interconnect (OIC), and the ENLIGHT NPU for inference with 4-/8-bit mixed-precision quantization. IP has been taped out and silicon-proven on advanced process nodes including Samsung 14LPU, 12nm, 7nm and 5nm (SF5A), and the company holds ISO9001:2015 certification and ASIL-B certified IPs.

Go-to-market

The company sells through direct sales and marketing teams in Korea, Japan, North America and China, and works within foundry ecosystems as a Samsung Foundry SAFE IP partner. It maintains visibility through industry events and exhibitions including the Design Automation Conference, Embedded Vision Summit, CVPR, AICAS, SEDEX Korea, ICCAD China, ARM Symposia China, Design Solution Forum Japan, AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit, Design&Reuse IP SoC China, and Samsung Foundry Forum/SAFE Forum events in Korea, the USA, Japan and EMEA. It is a member of JEDEC, the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, the Korea Software Industry Association and the Korea System Semiconductor Forum, and its Canadian subsidiary joined Canada's Semiconductor Council.

Chip designers and semiconductor companies developing AI SoCs, ASICs and ASSPs requiring DDR/LPDDR/GDDR/HBM memory subsystems, on-chip interconnect and edge AI inference accelerators; automotive-oriented customers are addressed via ASIL-B certified IPs.

Geography

Headquarters at 13F, 114 Yeoksam-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea, with OPENEDGES Square also in Seoul, The Six Semiconductor in Markham, Ontario, Canada, and OPENEDGES Technology Japan in Yokohama. A U.S. entity, OPENEDGES Technology Corp., was established in San Jose in 2021.

History

OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. was incorporated in Korea in December 2017. It released its first interconnect IP (OIC v1.0) in August 2018, joined JEDEC in July 2018 and became a Samsung Foundry SAFE IP partner in September 2018, after signing its first IP license and completing Series A funding in March 2018. In 2019 it released ENLIGHT NPU v1.0, signed its first NPU IP license and acquired Canadian PHY IP design house The Six Semiconductor (TSS). Series B funding closed in February 2020, the same year it released GDDR6 PHY and memory controller IP, signed its first PHY IP license and taped out LPDDR5 PHY IP on Samsung 14LPU. Series C funding was completed in May 2021, ENLIGHT NPU v2.0 was released in October 2021 and a U.S. entity was set up in San Jose. Preparations for a KOSDAQ listing began in February 2021, with the eligibility application filed in April 2022, the eligibility examination passed in July 2022 and listing completed in September 2022. Subsequent milestones include 7nm LPDDR5x/5/4x PHY and HBM3 tapeouts in December 2022, the first Samsung SF5A LPDDR5X/5/4X/4 PHY and memory controller license in July 2023, establishment of OPENEDGES Square in August 2023, ISO9001:2015 certification and the founding of OPENEDGES Technology Japan in early 2024, and a silicon-proven 5nm (SF5A) LPDDR5X combo PHY IP in June 2024.