Semiconductors Startups

SonicEdge develops second-generation MEMS microspeakers using modulated ultrasound technology, including SonicTwin, an 8x4x1 mm integrated speaker-microphone for true wireless stereo earbuds and headphones. Its compact audio components target consumer electronics, hearables, hearing aids, automotive, and home entertainment systems.

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Southchip designs analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, including battery protection ICs, DC-DC and AC-DC power converters, fast-charging protocol chips, power management chips, charging management chips, and RISC-V MCU processors. Its products serve automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, and energy storage applications, supplying chip solutions to device makers.

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Spectricity develops chip-size multispectral image sensors for smartphones and consumer electronics, aimed at improving color accuracy and enabling applications such as automatic white balancing, skin analysis, and wound monitoring. Its miniaturized imaging technology targets mobile device manufacturers and consumer electronics makers.

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Standard Machines is building reinforcement learning environments for long-horizon chip design tasks. Its first product targets the semiconductor design workflow using RL-based methods.

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Substrate is developing a U.S.-based semiconductor foundry, inventing technology aimed at extending Moore's Law while lowering the cost of leading-edge fabs and the wafers they produce.

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Sumitomo Precision Products is a Japanese manufacturer of MEMS foundry services, heat exchangers (including data-center cooling units and liquid-hydrogen heat exchangers), semiconductor processing equipment, and hydraulic systems. It serves semiconductor, aerospace, and industrial customers.

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Sumitomo Corporation Chemical is a chemical products trading company handling synthetic resins, solvents, industrial chemicals, resin materials, functional and fine chemicals, inorganic chemicals, and semiconductor and battery materials. It serves the automotive, packaging and logistics, home appliance and OA equipment, semiconductor, and secondary battery sectors globally, with a green chemical unit focused on circular economy and carbon neutrality.

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Summit Interconnect is a North American manufacturer of printed circuit boards (PCBs), including HDI, rigid, rigid-flex, and flex boards, supporting the full product lifecycle. It serves aerospace and defense, AI and quantum computing, commercial space, industrial and instrumentation, and medical device markets.

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Suzhou Supermag Intelligent Technology develops magnetic levitation bearingless motor technology, offering maglev motors, fluid transport and mixing systems, and high-vacuum solutions. Its products serve the semiconductor, biopharmaceutical, chemical, and energy industries with high-cleanliness, low-shear applications.

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Synapse Semiconductor is a semiconductor research lab building image sensors that run neural-network computation directly on the sensor, integrating light capture and AI processing in each pixel to replace GPU-based edge vision. Its chips target computer vision applications in self-driving cars, drones, humanoid robotics, and space systems.

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SynSense develops neuromorphic intelligence chips and vision systems for human-machine and brain-computer interfaces, optimizing for ultra-low power consumption and latency in edge computing applications.

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SynSense develops neuromorphic chips that integrate sensing and computing with ultra-low power and latency for AI edge computing, human-machine, and brain-computer interface applications. Through its group company iniVation, it also offers frame-based and bio-inspired vision systems.

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Tempo Semiconductor designs silicon and software-based solutions using its IP portfolio in ultra-low power mixed-signal, analog, and DSP technology to improve end-user audio experiences. Its products include devices such as the TSDP18xx octal PDM-to-TDM digital microphone aggregator.

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Rambus designs chips and silicon intellectual property for data center infrastructure, enabling high-speed memory and connectivity for applications including generative AI systems.

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Teradyne provides automated test equipment for electronics—covering semiconductors, wireless, and photonics testing—as well as an AI-powered robotics platform with cobots and autonomous mobile robots for material handling and factory automation. It serves electronics manufacturers and industrial automation customers across sectors such as healthcare, automotive, and consumer technology.

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Terafab produces AI chips at scale using solar power, targeting both terrestrial and orbital applications to meet future demand. The company combines chip manufacturing with plans for space-based compute infrastructure to support planetary-scale AI systems.

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ThirdAI Automation offers a Causal Intelligence Platform for semiconductor manufacturing, using AI agents and a knowledge graph to perform root cause analysis across sensors, imagery, logs, and documentation for fab engineers. The platform connects diagnostics, process intelligence, defect feedback, and resolution workflows, with VPC and on-prem/air-gapped deployment options.

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TMH provides supply chain solutions for semiconductor manufacturing, including maintenance and repair of semiconductor production equipment and parts (turbo, cryo, and dry pumps, robots) and life-extension of discontinued legacy equipment. It also operates LAYLA, a B2B cross-border e-commerce platform for sourcing, logistics, and manufacturing of semiconductor parts, serving manufacturers in Japan.

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Teng Rui Lasers is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, and diode-pumped solid-state lasers, serving applications in semiconductors, medical aesthetics, materials processing, automotive, consumer electronics, and aerospace.

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TransEON is a Canadian semiconductor foundry developing a new MOS-based gallium nitride (GaN) process for fabricating integrated circuits, offering higher RF power density and improved breakdown voltages compared to existing GaN HEMT technology. It provides foundry services with multi-project wafer runs, customizable processes, and design services including 2.5D and 3D integration, with ITAR-free and ITAR-compatible options.

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TriMagnetix develops nanomagnetic processors that combine logic and memory into a single unit for energy-efficient computing. Its chips target edge computing, IoT, battery-powered devices, aerospace, and secure embedded systems that must operate in extreme environments.

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Tropic Square is a European fabless semiconductor company that designs open-architecture secure elements providing a verifiable Hardware Root of Trust for security-critical embedded systems. Its flagship RISC-V-based IC, TROPIC01, targets edge AI, robotics, automotive ECUs, critical infrastructure, and industrial IoT applications.

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A semiconductor equipment manufacturer that provides substrate thinning, grinding, polishing, wafer mounting, and cleaning equipment and process solutions for various semiconductor wafers and advanced packaging processes including TSV, TGV, WLP, and SIP.

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