Semiconductors Startups

Amimon develops integrated circuits and complete solutions for wireless ultra-high-definition video transmission with sub-frame latency, using MIMO, OFDM, and Joint Source Channel Coding technologies. Its products serve the cinema, medical, industrial, and live production markets, sold under Teradek brands as part of Videndum's Creative Solutions Division.

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Ampere Computing designs Cloud Native Processors, including its Ampere Altra and AmpereOne server-class platforms, for high-performance, power-efficient computing in cloud, edge, and AI inference environments. It serves telecom, networking, autonomous vehicle, CDN, and data center workloads, including traditional applications and agentic/LLM-based AI services.

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anabrid builds a hybrid computing infrastructure that combines analog and digital technology, spanning REDAC hardware, firmware, a hybrid compiler, and industry-standard APIs. Its reconfigurable hybrid computers target real-time and continuous-time simulation workloads (ODE/PDE) for research institutions, universities, and industrial applications such as robotics control, smart grid optimization, and computational fluid dynamics.

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Aniah provides AI-driven electrical verification software for chip designers, using transistor-level analysis to detect errors in integrated circuit designs. The platform serves IC design engineers in the semiconductor industry.

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ANJET Corporation designs power semiconductor devices using Si, SiC, and GaN processes to improve energy efficiency for applications such as vehicles, railroads, and smart grids. It works with IC foundries in Taiwan, Japan, and the US to develop these power devices.

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Anokiwave is a fabless semiconductor company that designs highly integrated millimeter-wave silicon ICs used to build phased array active antennas. Its products serve 5G, SATCOM, and defense and aerospace markets, and the company was acquired by Qorvo in 2024.

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Apex Microtechnology designs and manufactures high voltage, high current analog and mixed-signal components, including power amplifiers, driver ICs, and sensor ICs, along with radiation-tolerant devices for space applications. It serves engineers designing power analog circuits across a range of industries, operating a DLA MIL-PRF-38534 certified, ISO 9001:2015 registered U.S. manufacturing facility.

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Apitronix designs a real-time processor with 220 RISC-V cores that moves task scheduling and protection into hardware silicon, providing parallel performance with freedom-from-interference. It targets safety-critical industries such as automotive (zone controllers, ECUs, real-time control for software-defined vehicles) and autonomous UAV flight controllers.

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Applied Angstrom Technology develops AI-native semiconductor manufacturing equipment, offering its PEDSL atomic layer etch platform for sub-angstrom precision in advanced logic, 3D NAND, DRAM and silicon photonics. Its equipment uses a machine-learning process loop to tune etch parameters in real time and serves chipmakers producing leading-edge nodes at 3nm and below.

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Black Semiconductor develops integrated photonics and electronics chip technology using graphene to enable energy-efficient, high-speed data communication for AI, robotics, autonomous driving, and high-performance computing applications.

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Applied Quantum Materials (AQM) develops and manufactures metal-free, biocompatible silicon quantum dots, silicon-based nanomaterials, and semiconductor photolithography resists using patented synthesis methods. Its materials serve applications in nanoelectronics, sensing, energy, displays, security, and bio-diagnostics, offered as an alternative to heavy-metal-based quantum dots.

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Aram Technology is a semiconductor parts manufacturer that produces high-performance ceramic components such as electrostatic chucks (ESC) and heaters used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes. It provides customized solutions for clients in the global semiconductor industry.

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Arieca develops patented Liquid Metal Embedded Elastomer (LMEE) thermal interface materials that combine thermal performance with mechanical reliability for semiconductor applications. The company works with customers to develop system-level thermal cooling solutions ready for high-volume manufacturing.

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Arycs Technologies develops power-efficient, coherent-class optical connectivity based on silicon photonics, coherent DSP, and integrated optical architectures. Its optical links are aimed at AI, cloud, telecom, and edge infrastructure, targeting high bandwidth per watt within the power constraints of data centers and AI networks.

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Astera Labs develops connectivity solutions for hyperscale data centers. The company operates in the data center infrastructure and semiconductor space.

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Athanor builds Kairos, a verification engine for hardware and software that uses formal tools to prove or refute equivalence for RTL optimizations, carrying machine-checked proof and measured area reductions. It also maintains Pythia, an open-source Lean 4 tactic library for theorem proving, serving engineering teams that require formally verified computational claims.

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Atlas Magnetics designs integrated circuits and advanced packaging solutions that consolidate passive components into IC substrates, reducing board size and component count for power, programmable logic, and RF applications in the semiconductor industry.

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Atmosic designs ultra-low-power wireless connectivity and compute chips for connected devices, aiming to extend battery life or enable battery-free operation. Its solutions target Internet of Things device makers.

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Atomica is a U.S.-based microfabrication foundry providing rapid prototyping and scalable production of MEMS, photonics, sensors, and biotechnology devices. It serves customers in AI hardware, optical communications, healthcare, aerospace and defense, industrial, automotive, and consumer markets, with process-integration and wafer foundry capabilities.

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Attolight develops cathodoluminescence-based instruments combining electron and light spectroscopy for materials characterization and defect inspection, including full-wafer solutions for the semiconductor industry. The company serves materials science researchers and semiconductor process development teams globally.

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Auradine develops ultra-low-power compute technology for AI applications across cloud data centers, edge, and physical/embodied AI. Its hardware aims to reduce power consumption and operating costs while enabling energy-efficient local AI processing and longer battery life.

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AuthenX designs optoelectronic components and optical transceiver modules based on III-V and silicon photonics technology for 5G, satellite communications, fiber networks, and data center applications.

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Availink is a fabless integrated circuit company that designs demodulators, SoCs, and embedded software for digital TV and multimedia devices. It serves a global clientele in the digital TV and multimedia industry.

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AXBIO builds a microfluidic Bio-CMOS platform combining nanopore sequencing, CMOS chips, and electrochemical sensors for high-throughput gene sequencing and molecular diagnostics. Its products include an EL-NGS gene sequencing platform, a multiplex nucleic acid analysis platform, and related reagents.

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