Semiconductors Startups

Forge Nano develops the Atomic Armor platform, based on its patented ALDˣ atomic layer deposition architecture, to apply atomically precise coatings that improve batteries, semiconductor wafers, powders, and structural components. It sells lithium-ion cells and ALD coating equipment to energy, defense, aerospace, semiconductor, and quantum hardware customers, and operates a North Carolina gigafactory for domestic lithium-ion cell manufacturing.

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FotoNation is a fabless silicon company developing TriSilica, an edge AI chip platform that fuses vision, audio, thermal, mmWave, and inertial sensing with a compute-near-memory architecture to process only relevant data at low power. It targets embodied/physical AI, wearables, surveillance, mobility, defense, and agentic edge systems, and licenses its TriSense IP to partners.

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Fractile designs a new class of AI accelerator processors that physically interleave memory and compute to deliver low latency and high throughput for frontier AI model inference. Its full-stack hardware, spanning transistor-level circuit design to cloud inference server logic, targets large-scale, high-speed token processing for AI workloads.

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Frontgrade builds electronics and subsystems for mission-critical and defense systems, including precision motion control, edge processing with AI/ML, storage, and RF front ends and modules. Its products support positioning, stabilization, actuation, secure communications, and sensing for demanding operational environments.

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Gal-Shvav Group is a manufacturer and contract developer of advanced opto-mechanical and motion-control systems for hi-tech industries including medical, semiconductor, printing, solar, and security. Operating since 1990 as a precision machine shop, it provides product development, prototyping, serial manufacturing, and lifecycle support, and includes subsidiaries such as Gal-Shvav Mechanics, Maresco, and R&D arm Einat Technologies.

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Galaxy Semiconductor develops test data analytics and IC yield management software for semiconductor manufacturers, helping engineers improve yields, reduce defects per million, and optimize test and production processes. Founded in 1998, the company focuses on semiconductor test data analysis and process improvement.

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GCT develops 5G semiconductor solutions and chipsets, working with infrastructure and device manufacturers. It serves the mobile and telecommunications hardware ecosystem.

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Geegah develops a chip-based ultrasonic imaging platform that captures high-resolution video of micro- and nano-scale living samples, such as nematodes, in their natural environments without requiring light. The technology uses high-gigahertz ultrasonic waves to image tiny objects in optically opaque settings like soil, targeting researchers as an alternative to conventional microscopes.

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GemaTEG develops thermal management technology for semiconductors, fine-tuning silicon temperatures to improve CPU and GPU performance for AI infrastructure. It applies semiconductor expertise to address chip heat and cooling limitations through its DaTEG product.

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GLCT (GLC) manufactures ultra high-quality CVD diamond substrates using proprietary reactor designs and growth processes, with reactors built and diamond grown in the USA. Its substrates target next-generation applications including quantum sensors, advanced packaging for AI chips, high-power electronics, and durable devices for extreme environments.

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Guerrilla RF designs and manufactures high-performance RFIC and MMIC components, including low noise amplifiers, gain blocks, power amplifiers, mixers and switches. Its products target wireless infrastructure-grade applications such as 5G, automotive connectivity, cellular boosters and DAS, military radios and wireless audio.

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HallTech develops advanced plasma physics-based deposition tools for semiconductor manufacturing that overcome limitations of traditional PVD, CVD, ALD, and PECVD processes. The company targets chip makers and fabs requiring next-generation materials with higher purity and precise atomic-level control for advanced compute nodes.

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Hardware Intelligence builds an agent-native toolchain for chip design, starting with Wave, an agentic waveform debugger for terminal use.

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HiLight Semiconductor is a fabless chip company that designs and supplies analogue and mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits, including PMD and PHY ICs at speeds up to and beyond 100Gbps. Its products target high-speed optical communications and networking applications.

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Hprobe designs, manufactures, and markets automated wafer-level testing equipment for magnetic devices such as MRAM and magnetic sensors, using a patented 3D magnetic field generator technology. It serves semiconductor foundries, IDMs, and research institutes worldwide, spanning R&D to high-volume production.

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HyperLight builds a thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) chiplet platform delivering high-bandwidth, energy-efficient optics for AI computing, cloud, hyperscale data centers, and telecom networks. It supplies known-good-dies for PAM/IMDD and coherent applications across AI, datacom, and telecom markets.

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VM Co., Ltd. develops and manufactures dry etcher equipment for semiconductor production using its own plasma source technology, replacing previously imported equipment. The company sells its etching equipment to semiconductor manufacturers including SK Hynix in South Korea and China, and is expanding sales to overseas chipmakers.

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ICTK develops PUF-based (Physically Unclonable Function) hardware security chips and platforms used for IoT device authentication, digital ID, and communications security. Its technology is supplied to telecom operators, consumer electronics makers, and defense and enterprise customers, with a focus on the South Korean market.

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Imec is an independent research and innovation center for nanoelectronics and digital technology, operating semiconductor pilot lines, cleanrooms, and labs used by industrial partners, startups, and universities. It conducts chip design and process R&D applied to fields such as health, automotive, agritech, and energy, working in an open innovation model with the global microchip value chain.

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IMS Nanofabrication is a high-tech company specializing in electron-beam lithography, developing and manufacturing multi-electron-beam writers for semiconductor industry manufacturers. It operates in nanotechnology serving global semiconductor players.

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indie develops silicon, photonics, and sensor system technologies, including mixed-signal SoCs and software, for sensing applications in automotive ADAS and adjacent markets such as industrial mobility, humanoid robotics, and quantum technology. It supplies its devices to major automotive OEMs globally.

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Inergy (廣閎) is an IC design company that develops energy-efficiency semiconductor products and integrated system solutions, spanning DC brushless motor drivers, application-specific power semiconductor devices, battery management, and power management. It targets low-carbon, low-power-consumption applications from IC to system design.

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Infinitesima develops atomic precision 3D metrology technology for the semiconductor industry, including the Rapid Probe Microscope (RPM) that uses thermal-optical actuation and an interferometric measurement system to achieve picometer-precision surface measurement faster than conventional atomic force microscopes. Based near Oxford, UK, it serves semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.

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Infiscale develops a compiler-based software toolchain and unified platform supporting CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to build a domestic AI chip software ecosystem in China. It offers low-cost, cross-brand standardized AI software infrastructure and edge computing chip solutions for AI applications.

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