Top California Semiconductor Startups (40)

Atomic Semi is building a small, fast semiconductor fab. We’ll build the tools ourselves then quickly push them to more advanced geometries. We’re building a small team of exceptional, hands-on engineers to make this happen.

Pivotal Systems provides best-in-class smart flow monitoring and process control technology designed for the global semiconductor and high-tech industries. Pivotal’s portfolio includes its patented Gas Flow Controllers (GFC™) and Flow Ratio Controllers (FRC). At Pivotal Systems, we aim to enhance fab productivity and capital efficiency with our innovative solutions.

Baya Systems is driving the next wave of foundational chiplet-based, high-performance, and modular semiconductor systems, with a focus on best-in-class on-chip fabric and communication technologies. By enabling seamless interoperability across a diverse array of industry-standard protocols, Baya Systems empowers best-of-breed compute, communication, and I/O solutions to work together. This approach enhances performance, yield, reusability, composability, development time and cost-efficiency. Named...

Atomica Corp. unleashes the power of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) to help solve the great problems of our time. Utilizing a uniquely collaborative approach to development and manufacturing, it partners with innovative companies to deliver breakthrough MEMS-based solutions in cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, cell therapy, molecular diagnostics, genomics, 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), and more. Atomica is the largest...

Bolt Graphics is a semiconductor startup building the fastest and most efficient graphics processors. Power consumption continues to rise with minimal performance improvements, resulting in increased cost and negative environmental impact. Hardware hasn’t kept up with consumer expectations, especially in industries like architecture, engineering, film, advertising, gaming, & scientific research. Our customers came to us to solve their two main problems:...

Luminus is a vertically integrated, fast-growing high-tech company that engages in high-power Light-Emitting-Diode (LED) solid-state lighting, lasers, and SiC power semiconductors for a variety of application areas, including industrial UV, IR, medical, projection displays, high-end illumination lighting, horticulture lighting, grid energy storage, EV and automotive industries. Luminus is at the forefront of the ongoing solid-state lighting revolution and SiC power...

ElevATE is a leading supplier of innovative, low power, high density components for the design of next generation Automated Test Equipment (ATE). With a proven track record of consistently delivering the highest density, lowest power solutions available, systems designed around ElevATE products have a competitive advantage in the ATE market space and are able to adapt successfully to emerging trends...

We produce AI-designed analog chips. Our AI-based designs are faster and more optimized, enabling us to produce custom chips at scale. This means that customers can get the chip they want, not just what's on offer. We are a team of chip designers and AI engineers, who are bringing our skills together to transform electronics.

At EUV Tech, we enable the frontiers of semiconductor manufacturing and material science through the development of world-leading EUV and soft X-ray instrumentation and techniques.

Normal is rethinking semiconductors from the ground up. The infrastructure powering AI models was never designed with today’s scale, complexity, or energy demands in mind. Today's general-purpose architectures underutilize the physical potential of the hardware itself. By aligning hardware design with the intrinsic properties of physical systems, we can transform efficiency. We believe that exploring the limits of new and custom silicon,...

TenaFe, Inc. is a solid-state drive (SSD) controller startup that brings innovative, transformative and patented technology to data centers, edge computing and client OEM. The team's rich heritage in OEM and enterprise storage inspired the creation of a first-of-its-kind failure analysis and prediction technology. The company’s technology will revolutionize the SSD qualification process– enabling customers to shorten qualification times and...

Corigine is a leading provider of I/O and Networking product IPs and ASICs. Founded in 2015, the company is led by a team of renowned silicon professionals that have innovated and brought forth new generations of products in semiconductor industry. Corigine has design locations in Santa Clara, California and in Shanghai and Nanjing, China.

Akros Silicon is a semiconductor company developing power management ICs that facilitate remote network-based energy management.

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Roviero has created AI Processor accelerator IP and associated software stack as a solution that scales across multiple applications. Roviero has solved the ultimate problem of scalability, programmability, power consumption with a hybrid approach to Hardware-Software. The IP is available today to integrate into our customer's SOC. Roviero is delivering FPGA based platforms today along with the software. The FPGA platform...

Presto Engineering provides ASIC design and outsourced operations for semiconductor and IoT device companies, helping its customers minimize overhead, reduce risk, and accelerate time-to-market. The company is a recognized expert in the development of industrial solutions for RF, analog, mixed-signal, and secured applications – from design, tape-out to delivery of finished goods. Presto’s proprietary, highly-secure manufacturing and provisioning solution, coupled...

At Edveon, our mission is to provide world-class VLSI services to semiconductor companies, enabling them to deliver cutting-edge and reliable semiconductor solutions to the market. If you are seeking a reliable partner to provide semiconductor services in ASIC/SOC, look no further! Edveon is a leading provider of ASIC/SOC Semiconductor services that help our partners across the globe

R2 Semiconductor, Inc. is a fabless Semiconductor Company led by experienced industry veterans. R2 Semiconductor is working on a new class of power management technology that will revolutionize the industry. The Company is based in Palo Alto, California.

PseudolithIC, Inc is a rapidly-growing semiconductor start-up company based in Santa Barbara, CA pioneering heterogeneous integration for radio-frequency integrated circuit solutions.

Cognichip is developing the world’s first Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI®) to reimagine chip design. Founded by experts from Amazon, Google, Apple, Aquantia, Synopsys, and KLA, the company tackles high cost and inaccessibility in chip development, enabling hardware to evolve as quickly as AI software innovation. Backed by $33 million in seed funding from Mayfield, Lux Capital, FPV, and Candou Ventures, Cognichip’s...