Semiconductors Startups

NeoMagic Corporation is a California holding company that designs low-power semiconductors and application processors while acquiring and operating small and medium-sized technology businesses. Its divisions cover RF and microwave components for commercial and military markets and an e-commerce marketplace.

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nepes is a South Korean technology company focused on semiconductor packaging and test services (PLP/FOWLP/WLP, bumping, FOW-SiP) along with AI-based predictive maintenance and vision inspection, IT process chemicals, rechargeable battery components, and energy/green construction materials. Founded in 1990, it is publicly listed on KOSDAQ and serves industrial and manufacturing customers.

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NEPESARK is a system semiconductor specialist company based in South Korea that designs and manufactures semiconductor products for various applications.

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Netrasemi designs high-performance Edge AI System-on-Chips (SoCs) for real-time, on-device AI computing. The company operates in the semiconductor and edge AI hardware category.

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NETSOL manufactures serial STT-MRAM memory products in densities from 1Mb to 64Mb, designed for applications requiring fast data storage and retrieval with non-volatile characteristics. The products serve industrial designs and embedded systems needing code storage, data logging, and backup memory functionality.

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New Origin is a pure-play semiconductor foundry developing a silicon nitride (SiN) technology platform for integrated photonics, manufacturing photonic integrated circuits with low-loss propagation across visible to near-infrared wavelengths. It serves a global customer base in applications such as optical communication, HPC/AI, LiDAR, AR/VR, bio-sensing, imaging, and quantum, with operations rooted in Twente, The Netherlands.

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Nexstrom develops wafer-scale, CMOS-compatible 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor materials using a proprietary MOCVD system, targeting sub-1nm transistor scaling beyond silicon's limits. The company builds a full-stack platform from materials to system to enable higher-density, energy-efficient chips for AI-driven computing.

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Nikon is a manufacturer of imaging products including cameras, lenses, and optical equipment for professional and consumer markets.

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Nodica Group manufactures semiconductor-based power solutions and related technologies for mission-critical applications in medical treatment, particle physics, and industrial settings. The company operates four specialized businesses delivering high-voltage pulsed power systems, magnets, and precision power supplies to replace legacy electron tube technology.

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Nominal Controls manufactures solid-state DC contactors for switching high-power loads in industrial and energy applications. The company's MACH-1 product line serves industrial controls, battery management systems, and power distribution in renewable and energy systems.

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North Ocean Photonics develops and manufactures wafer-level optics and integrated photonics products, with in-house capabilities spanning R&D, master fabrication, mass production, and quality control. The company operates a research and production center in the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and supplies wafer-level optical components at high volume.

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NovoViz develops patented computational single-photon sensors for imaging applications. The company provides both proprietary sensor technology and expert design services tailored to customer requirements across various industries.

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NS Materials develops and manufactures medical devices and precision equipment including semiconductor-related devices and ICT solutions. The company also provides maintenance and technical consulting services for its products.

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NSS Water provides ultrapure water technology, marketed as its Nanopure/Water Enhancement Tool (WET), designed to remove nanoscale contamination. It targets semiconductor manufacturing, where water free of nanoparticles is needed to achieve high production yield.

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Numascale designs node controller chips that enable servers to scale from 8 to 32 CPUs as cache-coherent shared memory systems, targeting enterprise high-performance computing workloads. Their UNC5 product powers scale-up servers from manufacturers including Eviden, Dell, and Hitachi for applications like SAP HANA and OLAP analytics.

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NuVolta Technologies designs wired and wireless fast-charging chipsets, including charge pumps and wireless charging transmitter/receiver solutions, for smartphones, IoT devices, and automotive applications. It supplies mobile and automotive OEMs and ODMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Belkin, and BYD, with R&D and sales operations across China and South Korea.

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NVE Corporation manufactures spintronic devices and sensors for industrial, scientific, and medical applications, including magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) technology. The company applies nanotechnology based on electron spin manipulation to store and transmit information in high-performance products.

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Oboe builds AI-native EDA (electronic design automation) infrastructure for chip design workflows.

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OE Solutions manufactures optoelectronic transceiver solutions for broadband wireless and wireline networks, serving applications including wireless backhaul, MANs, LANs, SANs, and PONs. The company is headquartered in South Korea and supplies systems integrators globally.

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ONE WARE provides software that automates the AI development lifecycle, from data to deployment, letting users create customized neural network models. The company holds a patent for its automatic neural network architecture creation process and targets AI performance across different hardware.

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Ampere designs high-performance, energy-efficient processors and an AI software stack (Ampere Optimized AI Frameworks) for running AI inference and cloud computing workloads in data centers. Its product lines, including AmpereOne and Ampere Altra, target enterprise, cloud service provider, telco, and edge AI compute deployments.

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Opsydia develops optical and photonic technologies for precision manufacturing, emerging from research in adaptive optics and laser processing at the University of Oxford. The company applies advanced laser machining and optical fabrication techniques to enable high-resolution processing in transparent materials for industrial and scientific applications.

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Orca Systems is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, tests, and manufactures RF ICs, RF IP, mixed-signal ASICs, and RF-based SoCs, with a focus on low-power RF transceivers for the IoT market. It provides chip design and system integration services, including RF, PMU, and baseband integration, for its partners and customers.

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Suzhou Yuanzhan, founded in 2020, develops, produces, and sells high-end fine electronic chemicals used to prepare metal, oxide, nitride, carbide, silicide, and sulfide thin films. It serves industrial and academic customers in fields such as semiconductors, displays, nanomaterials, new energy, and catalysis, offering products from lab-scale to industrial scale along with custom synthesis, purification, and precursor deposition testing services.

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