Semiconductors Startups

SnapMagic Search (SnapEDA) provides an online library of PCB footprints, schematic symbols, and CAD models for electronic components sourced from over 2,500 manufacturers. It is used by electrical engineers and hardware designers to speed up printed circuit board design.

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Soitec designs and manufactures engineered semiconductor substrates using silicon-on-insulator and related technologies for use in smartphones, connected devices, automotive systems, and computing infrastructure. Its materials serve chipmakers and the wireless, automotive, and high-performance computing industries.

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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 embedded integrated circuits for high-end consumer electronics, automotive, and industrial computing applications. The company provides end-to-end solutions focused on energy conversion management and system-level engineering.

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Mindgrove Technologies designs GHz-class processors and system-on-chips (SoCs) for embedded and edge computing applications, targeting the middle market with cost-optimized silicon built on the open RISC-V architecture. The company serves customers in video security, automotive, biometric access, and smart device segments with production-ready chips developed under India's Design Linked Incentive scheme.

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Spherical Systems designs full-stack spacecraft electronics, covering systems, silicon, and software in-house. The company targets the space industry with integrated hardware and software for spacecraft.

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Spreadtrum Communications designs RF transceivers, computational algorithms, and computer vision solutions for mobile handset manufacturers, wireless communication systems, and IoT applications. The company specializes in integrated circuits for multi-mode wireless connectivity and serves the mobile communications and RFIC industries.

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Spring Silicon builds full-stack compute infrastructure — from compilers to ASICs — designed specifically for physical AI and edge inference in robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, and heavy industry. It targets sectors such as manufacturing, defense, energy, and transportation.

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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 Chemical Co., Ltd. is a chemical company that develops and distributes chemical products and materials globally.

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Summit Interconnect produces specialized printed circuit boards for defense applications including autonomous systems, radar and sensor platforms, and intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance equipment.

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SuperLight Photonics develops compact, integrated photonics-based laser sources for scientific and industrial applications including optical coherence tomography, spectroscopy, and imaging. The company serves laboratory and industrial customers across biomedical, research, and manufacturing sectors.

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Supermag manufactures magnetic levitation motors, fluid transport systems, and vacuum solutions for semiconductor, biopharmaceutical, chemical, and energy industries. The company provides high-purity, low-shear equipment designed to meet demanding manufacturing and processing requirements across multiple industrial sectors.

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A compound-semiconductor company operating a vertically integrated IDM platform covering chip design, epitaxial growth, wafer fabrication, and device packaging/testing for third-generation photonic chips. It develops InP-based high-speed laser chips (FP/DFB/EML series, including 100Gbps PAM4 EML and CW-DFB) for optical communications applications such as FTTH, backbone networks, 5G transport, hyperscale data centers, autonomous driving, and industrial IoT.

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TagoreTech is a fabless semiconductor company developing GaN and GaAs RF and power management products, including GaN-on-Silicon devices, for applications such as military and public safety communications, radar, drones, jammers, and 5G cellular infrastructure. It operates design centers in Arlington Heights, Illinois and Arizona in the USA, and in Kolkata, India.

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Anthropic is an AI company developing Claude, a large language model, and is building custom chips in-house to improve performance and efficiency of its AI models for customers.

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TDS Innovation develops deposition equipment, processes, and materials for wafer-scale mass production of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, positioned as a next-generation channel material beyond silicon scaling. Its proprietary Crystal Layer Deposition (CLD) platform produces single-crystal 2D semiconductor films for heterogeneous integration with silicon and monolithic 3D integration.

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Teem Photonics develops photonic components and laser systems, including erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers, microchip lasers, and waveguide interface products for telecommunications, industrial marking, and silicon photonics applications.

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Tempo Semiconductor designs and manufactures low-power analog and mixed-signal semiconductor chips for embedded systems and IoT applications. The company serves customers across consumer electronics, industrial, and computing markets.

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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 and robotics solutions for manufacturers to ensure product quality and accelerate time-to-market. The company serves semiconductor, electronics, and industrial manufacturers across diverse industries with testing and task automation capabilities.

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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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Terapede develops X-ray and medical imaging technology, drawing on semiconductor, MEMS, nanostructure, packaging and X-ray physics expertise. The company holds over 100 patents in areas including 2D/3D semiconductors and medical imaging.

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TeraPore develops nanofiltration products based on tunable self-assembled block copolymer technology to address complex separation challenges in biopharmaceutical production and semiconductor manufacturing. The company serves customers in human health and high-performance computing applications and is based in the San Francisco Bay area.

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