Semiconductors Startups

Elephantech manufactures production equipment, materials, and printed circuit boards for electronics manufacturing. The company serves electronics manufacturers with printed circuit board production and processing equipment.

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Shinden is a Japanese company that supplies electronic components and systems including semiconductors, displays, batteries and power equipment, IoT solutions, and system products. It serves industrial and electronics customers as a distributor/provider of these hardware products.

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UPT specializes in ultra-precision metal processing by combining photo-etching and diffusion bonding to produce small, thin metal components. It serves electronics and semiconductor equipment makers with parts such as smartphone camera springs, shims, cooling plates, and semiconductor test sockets, offering integrated design-to-mass-production support.

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A Chinese software developer specializing in manufacturing execution systems (MES) and factory automation software for semiconductor and sensor production lines, including CIM, EAP, and RMS systems. It serves wafer fabs, MEMS sensor lines, SiC and power device manufacturers, and chip packaging plants.

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A Chinese industrial conglomerate operating across optoelectronic display materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, semiconductor silicon-carbon materials, new energy power generation and components, new energy vehicles, and high-end medical pharmaceutical glass packaging. It positions itself as a large domestic enterprise focused on display and chip industries in China.

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DK Power (Dongke Semiconductor) is a Chinese integrated circuit company founded in 2011 that handles R&D, design, manufacturing, and sales of chips, with research centers across several Chinese cities and a packaging/testing base. It focuses on proprietary IC design and is developing third-generation gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor chips in a joint R&D center with Peking University.

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A Chinese semiconductor company that develops multi-core heterogeneous processors and builds a digital-vision AIoT ecosystem, promoting industrialization of the SVAC national standard. It positions itself around domestic chip development ("China Core" program) and partners with channel partners.

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Zing Semiconductor manufactures semiconductor silicon wafers used as substrate material for integrated circuits, with a full production chain spanning crystal growth, slicing, grinding, polishing, and epitaxy. Its products include 8-inch, 12-inch polished and epitaxial wafers and 4-6 inch polished wafers used in logic, flash memory, DRAM, image sensor, and display driver chips, primarily serving the Chinese market.

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Clourney Semi develops wireless communication chips, including in-house designed Wi-Fi SoCs, baseband, and RF chips. It offers complete hardware-to-software solutions to help customers bring terminal products through design, mass production, and launch.

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Qingdao Jiaen Semiconductor designs, develops, manufactures, and sells high-end power semiconductor devices, including IGBT, MOSFET/VDMOS, fast recovery diodes, and silicon carbide MOSFETs across 600V–1500V ranges. Based in China, it serves applications such as inverters, chargers, high-voltage switching power supplies, welding machines, and electromagnetic induction heating.

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Artilux develops germanium-on-silicon (GeSi) photonics technology that provides optical interconnects and optoelectronic compute for AI infrastructure across cloud, edge, and physical AI applications. Its technology targets scaling AI computing with light-based connectivity and is also applied to photonic quantum computing and silicon-based metalens technology.

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A semiconductor company that designs and offers chips including microcontrollers, power management, signal conditioning, and sensors, along with IP and SoC chip customization services. Its products target automotive electronics, industrial control, motor applications, consumer electronics, medical health, and IoT markets.

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Chizhou Huayu Electronic Technology, founded in 2014, provides integrated circuit packaging and testing services, including IC packaging, wafer testing, and finished chip testing. Its packaging capabilities include multi-chip module (MCM), 3D stacked-die, QFN/DFN, and high-density fine-pitch IC packaging.

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GMCS is a semiconductor equipment manufacturer focused on front-end process equipment and auxiliary systems, including CMP, wet process cleaning and etching, and various facility support systems. The company serves semiconductor fabrication facilities with both new and refurbished equipment covering all front-end process modules.

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A compound semiconductor epitaxial wafer research, development, and manufacturing center that provides customized epitaxial growth services. It serves China's chip industry.

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Horizon Robotics develops intelligent driving technology and assisted driving systems for automotive manufacturers globally. The company provides integrated software and hardware solutions serving over six million car owners across 27 automakers.

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Tianyihexin is a semiconductor company founded in 2014 that designs, develops, and sells high-performance sensor chips and analog chips, including optical and capacitive sensing chips with accompanying algorithms. Its products serve consumer electronics such as wearables, mobile communications, laptops/tablets, and industrial/medical applications, with expansion into new-energy vehicles and information communications.

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ESWIN Computing develops RISC-V based processor technology and domain-specific software platforms, including its RISAA software platform, for applications spanning smart home, smart office, portable devices, automotive systems, industrial intelligence, and robotics. The company offers chips and computing solutions for products such as smart displays, laptops, smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, automotive cockpits, and smart manufacturing environments.

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Jiangsu Leadmicro Nano Technology (stock code 688147.SH) designs and manufactures high-end micro- and nano-scale thin-film deposition equipment built around atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, with CVD and other vacuum thin-film processes. Its equipment serves semiconductor front-end manufacturing and high-efficiency solar cell (photovoltaic) production for global customers.

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NanoCore Chip (NCC) is a semiconductor company developing compute-in-memory AI chips based on its 3D-CIM architecture, which performs computation within memory (DRAM/NAND) to reduce data movement and improve energy efficiency and compute density. Its chip solutions target AI phones, AI PCs, cloud computing centers, and AI robotics.

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S2C builds FPGA-based prototyping systems that let IC, ASIC, and SoC designers verify and validate chip designs and accelerate software development, hardware verification, and system validation. The company serves semiconductor engineers and design teams doing functional design verification and IP/RTL validation.

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AIPhotonix develops, manufactures, and sells high-speed optoelectronic chips used in 400G/800G/1.6T optical modules for AI supercomputing and data communications. Its technology also targets LiDAR/3D sensing and AI robotics applications, with in-house capabilities spanning wafer fabrication, chip design, epitaxial growth, packaging, and testing.

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A Chinese semiconductor company established in July 2002 that designs, manufactures, and sells power semiconductor chips and discrete devices, operating 5-inch and 6-inch wafer fabrication lines. Its 16 product series (over 2,000 models) include VDMOS field-effect transistors, Schottky diodes, high-voltage bipolar transistors, and rectifier diodes, used in power conversion, lighting, smart home, mobile and communications electronics.

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eTopus develops high-speed SerDes IP and ultra low latency connectivity IP, including 400G and 112G serial solutions, for wired data connections. Its technology supports a range of process nodes (6nm to 22nm) and protocols such as Ethernet, PCIe Gen 5/6, CXL, and Interlaken, targeting semiconductor and chip design applications.

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