Top California Semiconductor Startups (28)

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...

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.

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:...

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

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.

Efabless enables non-hardware experts to create the electronics required for intelligent, connected products. Efabless offers a unique process where users can rapidly, cost-effectively and easily create electronics from community-developed building blocks and open design patterns, called templates. We provide everything needed to do this: - Marketplace & request process - Library of building blocks and open designs - Design tools - Manufacturing technology and services We employ multiple models...

Principal Service Solutions is a leading technical workforce provider entrusted to safeguard the quality of operations while lowering costs and meeting business goals. Our customized solutions evolve over time with your changing business needs, providing a risk-free alternative to traditional workforce strategies.

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...

At Multiscale AI, we’re revolutionizing semiconductor manufacturing with advanced, agentic AI. We partner with leading semiconductor manufacturers to tackle their most complex Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Optimization (SMPO) challenges. Our platform combines Bayesian digital twins, purpose-built ML models, and AI agents to extract actionable insights from limited silicon data and physics simulations. By unifying fragmented data, delivering domain-optimized ML, and enabling scalable, fab-ready...

FemtoMetrix® is the world leader in optical Non-Visual Defect (NVD) inspection for surface and buried defects, delivering new inspection capabilities with its patented Harmonic F1x® inspection system. The Harmonic F1x system is capable of detecting NVDs including defects located at buried interfaces. Applications exist for bulk silicon as well as SOI, GaN, SiC and other advanced engineering substrates. Whether you’re in...

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...

Magnum Semiconductor is a leading provider of silicon, modules, software and IP for the professional broadcast infrastructure market. Magnum provides top of the line products, tools and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, Satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming. Magnum Semiconductor is headquartered in Milpitas, California, with...

Get first-rate electronic test equipment from Calright instruments for all your test and measurement needs. We are a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that strives to deliver premium products sourced from some of the most renowned manufacturers on the market. Whether you are looking to buy, rent or lease new electronic test equipment, used test equipment or refurbished test and measurement...

Noribachi is a high technology company focused on lighting digitalization. We design, manufacture and sell industrial LED lighting products and digital displays. In only six years since inception, we have sold over 30,000 installations to 3,000 customers worldwide. We have been named to the Inc. 5000, Forbes list of America’s Most Promising Companies, Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 and the Los...

Blue Cheetah is advancing chiplet interconnectivity with its customizable die-to-die interconnect IP solutions. Its state-of-the-art semiconductor IP solutions achieve industry-leading power, performance, and area for high-performance computing, AI/ML, networking, mobile, and many other applications. The company's BlueLynx D2D interconnect subsystem IP provides customizable physical (PHY) and link layer chiplet interfaces and supports the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) and Open...

Providing premiere CMP and grinding technology to critical growth markets such as power, RF communications, LED, MEMS, solar,.

Analogix Semiconductor designs and manufactures semiconductors for the digital multimedia market, from portable devices such as smartphones, notebooks, and VR head mounted displays, to large, high-definition TVs and high-end graphics cards. Analogix is the market leader in providing end-to-end interface connectivity semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort under its SlimPort brand, including high-speed signal conditioners, and an industry leader in mobile display...

Iridia™ Inc. strategically combines proprietary enzymology and semiconductor technology to revolutionize long-term data storage. By leveraging DNA, nature’s perfected data storage system, the company has developed a durable, decodable, and ultra-high-density semiconductor chip solution for data storage, that significantly reduces the infrastructure requirements and environmental impact compared to current approaches. Iridia’s solution is the world’s first affordable, integrated data storage...

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

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