Semiconductors Startups

Esperanto Technologies developed the ET-SoC-1, a RISC-V based inference chip with over a thousand low-power cores, along with AI/HPC compute servers for generative AI inference, high-performance computing, and mixed AI+HPC workloads. The company has ceased operations and its IP was acquired by Nekko.ai.

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Etched designs custom silicon and rack-scale inference systems for running frontier AI models, co-designing chips, packaging, interconnects, cooling, and software to improve throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency. It targets AI companies, cloud providers, and hyperscalers running large mixture-of-experts models and agentic inference workloads.

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EuQlid builds magnetic imaging technology that uses quantum defects in diamond to non-invasively map buried electrical currents and identify connectivity defects in materials and devices. Its Quantum Diamond Microscope serves semiconductor advanced packaging, silicon 3D architectures, and energy storage/battery applications for metrology and defect analysis.

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Everspin develops and manufactures MRAM (magnetoresistive RAM) persistent memory products, including its PERSYST STT-MRAM families for data centers, enterprise, industrial, and embedded systems. Its non-volatile memory serves critical systems across aerospace and defense, AI, automotive, gaming, medical, industrial, and smart energy applications.

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EYE4NIR develops image sensors based on germanium-on-silicon thin films that detect visible-near infrared (VIS-NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) radiation within the same pixel. Its VIS/SWIR imaging technology targets automotive/autonomous driving, industrial automation and machine vision, and agri-food inspection and sorting applications.

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Faradaic develops chip-scale electrochemical oxygen gas sensors based on its MECS-Technology, offering a miniaturized, factory-calibrated sensor module (Faraday-Ox) with digital output. The company targets the semiconductor industry and applications such as wearables, IoT, food monitoring, industrial safety, and medical breathing.

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Flexciton develops AI-driven production planning and scheduling software for semiconductor fabs, using mathematical optimization to improve throughput, tool utilization, and on-time delivery. It serves chipmakers transitioning toward autonomous factory operations, with clients including Seagate Technology, Renesas, and Microchip.

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Flow Computing develops the Flow PPU (Parallel Processing Unit), a licensable on-die parallel co-processor architecture that works alongside CPUs to improve parallel throughput and scalability. It targets semiconductor and system makers across cloud/data-center and HPC, industrial and embedded, and consumer/edge device markets, and is instruction-set independent for Arm, x86, RISC-V, and Power architectures.

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Flusso develops compact MEMS-based mass flow and air velocity sensors built on a proprietary thermal Tungsten (TMEMS) sensing platform. The sensors are sold to product manufacturers across industries such as automotive, medical, semiconductors, HVAC, computing, and hydrogen/energy applications.

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Fortemedia develops voice interface technology for mobile and connected devices, integrating SoC, algorithms, and MEMS into its Smart Array Microphone (SAM) chips. Its products provide far-field voice pickup and noise suppression for human-machine interfaces in the mobile communication space.

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Fourier Optics builds Fourier AR, an angular and wavelength-selective metasurface optical combiner embedded invisibly inside ophthalmic lenses that reflects RGB light from a µLED projector to the eye for all-day augmented-reality glasses. The technology is designed for OEMs and lens manufacturers using standard semiconductor fabrication and ophthalmic lens workflows, supporting prescription vision correction.

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Habana Labs designs AI processors optimized for training deep neural networks and inference deployment in production environments. The company offers hardware and software solutions targeting enterprises and cloud providers.

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Horizon Robotics develops software-hardware integrated smart driving technology for passenger vehicles, including its Journey automotive computing chips and the Horizon SuperDrive (HSD) end-to-end urban assisted driving system. It supplies these ADAS and assisted-driving solutions to automotive OEMs and brands for mass production, with a market focus on China.

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HyperAccel designs AI semiconductors, including its LPU (an AI-specialized processor) and products such as the Bertha 500 chip, Forte 55X accelerator card, and HX-F55X on-premise inference server, aimed at accelerating LLM inference from edge devices to cloud datacenters. It also provides a software platform compatible with frameworks like vLLM and HuggingFace supporting transformer-based and multi-modal models.

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Impinj develops RAIN RFID technology used to connect physical items to digital systems, serving businesses across industries through its partners and solutions. This page presents the company's guiding principles and values rather than product details.

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indie Semiconductor develops mixed-signal semiconductor chips and software for the automotive industry, targeting applications such as ADAS driver safety and automation, in-cabin user experience, and vehicle electrification. Its product portfolio includes photonics components for LiDAR and sensing, as well as high-performance radar systems for vehicle safety and industrial mobility.

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Ineda designs purpose-built silicon and hardware and software systems for Level-5 autonomous driving, using its CRoME technology to process data from cameras, imaging radars, and ultrasound sensors with sub-millisecond response times. It targets automakers and developers building production-ready autonomous driving vehicles.

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Inpho develops monolithically integrated electronics and photonics to build optical data connections and connectors for high-performance cloud and datacenter infrastructure. The company targets demanding IT applications such as high-performance datacenters, aiming for higher speed, lower power consumption, and smaller die sizes.

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Inprentus designs and manufactures custom blazed diffraction gratings and diffractive optics using nano-scale contact mode lithography, for applications including AR waveguides, semiconductor manufacturing, synchrotron/FEL beamlines, and spectroscopy. It provides end-to-end services spanning optical design, manufacturing, and metrology for research and industrial customers.

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Inpria, a JSR company, designs and manufactures metal oxide EUV photoresists based on organometallic tin-oxide clusters for improved patterning resolution in chip production. It supplies semiconductor manufacturers that have adopted EUV lithography, producing its materials at a facility in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Intel offers AI-focused hardware and software solutions, including processors, data center and cloud AI hardware, AI PCs built on Intel Core Ultra processors, and open source development frameworks and tools. It targets enterprises and developers building and deploying AI workloads across edge, data center, and cloud environments.

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InvenSense, a TDK Group company, designs MEMS and magnetic sensor solutions—including accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, and ultrasonic time-of-flight sensors—paired with proprietary algorithms and firmware. Its products serve consumer, industrial, and automotive applications, spanning motion tracking, audio processing, ultrasonic sensing, and on-chip machine learning.

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Develops silent, solid-state airflow accelerators that use electrohydrodynamic (ionic wind) technology with no moving parts to cool electronics. Targets OEMs and applications such as embedded AI compute modules, ultra-thin notebooks, edge servers, and industrial and scientific equipment, with technology developed in Switzerland.

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Iris Light develops photonic inks based on nanomaterials that enable integration of light-emitting and light-detecting components directly onto silicon wafers, addressing manufacturing bottlenecks in silicon photonics and infrared imaging. The company targets applications including optical communications, medical devices, autonomous vehicle LiDAR, and chemical/biological sensors.

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