Semiconductors Startups

4K-MEMS SA develops miniaturized broadband infrared (NIR/SWIR) light sources and MEMS thermal emitter chips that can be embedded in compact devices, manufactured at wafer scale for mass production. Its emitters target machine vision, hyperspectral imaging, and portable spectroscopy for applications such as chemical sensing, medical diagnostics, and consumer electronics.

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7 Semiconductors is establishing a European-based GaN (gallium nitride) foundry service to serve diverse semiconductor needs, with a focus on advanced packaging for AI data centers and high-frequency applications. The company emphasizes sustainability through organic coatings and carbon footprint reporting, and positions itself around European industrial capability and security.

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Achronix builds FPGA-based hardware and accelerator cards for AI inference workloads, including speech-to-text and open-source LLM processing across edge and data-center deployments. Its products target AI deployment teams needing low-latency, memory-efficient reconfigurable acceleration.

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ActLight designs and licenses semiconductor light sensor technology, centered on its patented Dynamic PhotoDetector (DPD), which offers lower power consumption and higher performance than conventional photodiodes. The technology targets wearable devices, smartphones, and health-tracking applications and is offered to companies across industries for licensing.

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Actions Technology (Actions Semi) is a fabless chip design company specializing in low-power AIoT SoCs, with a focus on high-quality, low-latency wireless audio. Its technology covers full audio signal chains (audio ADC/DAC, voice pre-processing, audio codecs and post-processing) and low-latency wireless connectivity based on Bluetooth RF, baseband, and protocol stacks.

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The company develops ALPro technology for electrical characterization of semiconductor layers at atomic-scale depth resolution, aimed at supporting process development, modeling, and manufacturing control. It serves semiconductor manufacturers working with device scaling and new materials.

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Active-Semi International develops power management semiconductor products, including battery management devices, DC/DC converters, intelligent motor controllers, and power application controllers for brushless DC and permanent magnet synchronous motors. The company, which makes power ICs for applications such as power and garden tools, is now part of Qorvo.

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Acxel develops digital microfluidics platforms for biochemical experiments, using thin-film semiconductor processes and active-matrix technologies such as Active Pixel Lab-on-Chip (AP-LOC), AM-EWOD, and AM-DMF for high-throughput, parallel, precise microdroplet manipulation. It offers custom digital microfluidics solutions with mass-production support for drug development and basic biology research.

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Advanced Silicon Group works in nanotechnology, using the tagline "Nanotechnology for Life."

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Aerogen Systems develops point-of-use contamination control for semiconductor manufacturing, using a modular reactor that chemically destroys airborne molecular contamination where wafers sit exposed. Its systems aim to reduce yield loss and ultra-high-purity nitrogen purge costs for fabs, with a longer-term goal of eliminating the need for cleanrooms.

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Aerogen Systems builds point-of-use active filtration modules that continuously capture and chemically degrade airborne acids and organic contaminants inside localized microenvironments such as FOUPs and wafer storage. The products are aimed at semiconductor fabs seeking to reduce queue-time molecular contamination and improve wafer yield as design rules shrink.

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Aeva develops FMCW-based 4D LiDAR sensors and AI perception software that simultaneously detect velocity and range, offered as chip-based modules for automotive and industrial applications. Its products include long-range automotive-grade LiDAR, wide-view short-range LiDAR, and precision laser speed sensors for factory automation.

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AGIC Micro designs and manufactures custom SoC chips for edge and cloud computing applications, including the G100 chip for real-time voice and image processing in consumer devices, and the C100 chip for cloud gaming. The company offers end-to-end semiconductor solutions from specification to production.

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Agrani Labs develops AI GPUs and end-to-end software for enterprise and datacenter compute.

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AICRAFT designs and manufactures AI-powered smart sensors, custom systems, and electronic boards, focusing on compact, low-power embedded AI solutions for high-performance computing. It also provides consulting, software development, platform integration, and sensor customisation for defence and commercial clients.

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AiNEKKO builds composable silicon for edge AI inference, working across RISC-V manycore compute, MRAM-based memory (iRAM), and an open software stack. It open-sources its designs under the Eclipse Foundation and uses AI agents to design chips across the software-hardware boundary, enabling custom chips without custom tape-outs.

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Aio Precision (株式会社アイオー精密) is a Japanese manufacturer providing precision cutting, grinding, heat treatment, surface treatment, and sub-assembly services for various metals and resins. Founded in 1977, the company serves industrial clients from its base in Iwate Prefecture, with operations that also include a factory in China.

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Aitomatic builds DanaOS, an on-premise "Engineering Intelligence" platform that captures experts' tacit operational knowledge as a governed "Cognitive Ontology" and runs it as autonomous agents that perceive, diagnose, and act on industrial systems. It targets industrial operators, particularly semiconductor manufacturing, for tasks like equipment maintenance, process optimization, and anomaly detection.

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Shenzhen Deepmaterial Technologies is an adhesives manufacturer focused on products for semiconductor and electronic applications, including chip packaging and testing adhesives, circuit board adhesives, protective films, semiconductor fillers, and encapsulants. It supplies engineers and manufacturers in the electronics assembly and semiconductor packaging industries with custom and standard bonding, sealing, and potting solutions.

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Alpine Optoelectronics designs and manufactures high-speed optical transceivers, including 100G QSFP28 DWDM/xWDM and 800G QSFP-DD/OSFP LPO modules built on silicon photonics for data center and networking links over single-mode fiber. Its products target network equipment and data center operators needing multi-terabit optical interconnects.

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Ambature develops "a-axis" high-temperature superconductor (HTS) materials, Josephson junctions, and SQUID-based devices, offering a vertical trilayer architecture intended for scalable manufacturing in semiconductor fabs. Its technology targets defense, computing, and space applications including quantum sensors, magnetic navigation, radar, medical imaging, and energy-efficient high-performance computing.

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AmberSemi builds PowerTile, a DC-DC vertical power conversion chip that delivers up to 1,000A directly under data center processors, replacing over 30 power ICs. It targets hyperscalers and AI data centers to reduce board power loss and improve power density for GPU/CPU workloads.

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Ambient Scientific is a fabless semiconductor company developing AI processors based on analog compute technology for ultra-low-power, always-on, on-device AI. The company designs chips intended to run AI without reliance on the cloud or internet.

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Ambiq designs ultra-low-power System-on-Chip and Real-Time Clock semiconductors based on its patented Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform to enable edge AI on battery-powered devices. Its Apollo and Atomiq SoC families serve makers of wearables, smart glasses, smart home, healthcare, and industrial IoT products.

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