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EE Times updates ‘Silicon 60’ list of emerging startups
Peter Clarke
11/7/2010 6:48 PM EST
The companies: M-R
*Maskless Lithography Inc. (San Jose), a 2005 startup led by a group of electronics industry veterans, is offering direct-write digital imaging technology for pc board production. Its first product is the MLI-2027 direct-write lithography system.
www.maskless.com
MaxIC Technology Corp. (Beijing), a fabless IC design company with operations in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, was founded in March 2008 by a group of overseas returnees with both senior management and technical experience. It focuses on designing, developing and marketing advanced analog, mixed-signal and power management integrated circuits.
www.maxictech.com
MimoOn GmbH (Duisberg, Germany), founded in 2006, supplies a software implementation of the 3GPP LTE physical layer and protocol stack for infrastructure devices and terminals.
www.mimoon.de
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. (Fleet, U.K.), a fabless RF and mixed-signal chip startup founded in 2004, has developed software demodulation technology that can be used with its reconfigurable tuner to receive multiple broadcast standards.
www.mirics.com
*Movea SA (San Jose) is a provider of motion processing chips, software, embeddable firmware and IP for consumer electronics. Formed in March 2007 as a spinout from French research institute CEA-Leti, Movea acquired the Gyration consumer electronics brand in 2008.
www.movea.com
Movidius Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland), founded as Movidia in 2005, is a fabless semiconductor company whose processor and application software delivers video editing and post-production capabilities for the creation of user-generated content for mobile social networking. Movidius, with offices in Dublin and Hong Kong and a software development center in Romania, is backed by Celtic House Venture Partners, Capital-E, Emertec Gestion, AIB Seed Capital Fund and Enterprise Ireland.
www.movidius.com
Nano ePrint Ltd. (Manchester, U.K.) was formed in 2006 to commercialize technology developed at the University of Manchester. Nano ePrint’s technology enables planar nanoelectronic circuits to be fabricated via single-step patterning. Nano ePrint has also developed a configurable circuit architecture to deliver the world’s first printed programmable logic circuits.
www.nanoeprint.com
OneChip Photonics Inc. (Ottawa), founded in 2005, develops and manufactures low-cost, high-performance optical transceivers based on monolithic photonic ICs using indium phosphide. The devices are used for access networks and other mass-market broadband applications.
www.onechipphotonics.com
OneSpin Solutions GmbH (Munich, Germany) is an Infineon Technologies spinoff, founded in 2005, that focuses on formal assertion-based verification tools for system-on-chip, ASIC and FPGA designs.
www.onespin-solutions.com
Open Kernel Labs (Chicago), with origins in Australia, develops “virtualization software” for mobile phones and broadband devices. The company was founded in 2006 and raised $7.6 million in venture capital in 2009.
www.ok-labs.com
Ozmo Devices Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.), founded in 2004 as H-Stream Wireless, develops wireless personal area network connectivity for battery-operated devices based on Wi-Fi communications.
www.ozmodevices.com
Parallel Engines Corp. (Cupertino) was founded in April 2008 with the goal of bringing together the EDA and semiconductor intellectual property worlds. With design moving to extensive IP block reuse, Parallel Engines is attempting to integrate many vendors from the supply chain into the design team.
www.parallelengines.com
*Pixel Qi Corp. (San Bruno, Calif.) designs liquid-crystal displays that can be operated in black-and-white reflective mode (with the backlight switched off) in ambient light, allowing for significant power savings. The LCDs can be produced on conventional fabrication equipment. The company was formed in 2008 by Mary Lou Jepson, who had previously served as CTO of the One Laptop per Child project.
www.pixelqi.com
*Polyteda Software Corp. (Toronto) was co-founded in 2005 by Vlad Marchuk to develop physical verification EDA tools. Marchuk, now Polyteda’s president and CEO, graduated from Kiev Polytechnical Institute in 1988 and helped develop the OTTO layout debugger before heading up Cadence’s R&D team in Moscow.
www.polyteda.com
Powervation Ltd. (Limerick, Ireland), founded in 2006, is a fabless semiconductor startup that has produced a digital control chip for power converters.
www.powervation.com
Quantenna Communications Inc. (Sunnyvale), founded in 2006, is a developer of silicon for wireless networking that delivers guaranteed wireless bandwidth.
www.quantenna.com
Rayspan Corp. (San Diego), founded in 2006, is an innovator in metamaterial air interface technology for wireless communications. Metamaterials provide improvements in antenna and RF front-end component miniaturization. Rayspan’s solutions support fixed and mobile wireless WAN and LAN applications, including all 2/3/4G cellular handsets, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
www.rayspan.com
RedMere Technology Ltd. (Dublin) is developing chips for HDMI connectors to support multigigabit/second wireline communications. The company has raised about $19 million since its founding in 2004 and has released its first chips.
www.redmere.com
RFaxis Inc. (Irvine, Calif.), founded January 2008, uses BiCMOS process technology in conjunction with its own technology to create integrated RF front-end ICs for wireless standards including Bluetooth, WLAN, Zigbee, WiMax and mobile phone markets.
www.rfaxis.com
Next: The companies: S-Z
M
*Maskless Lithography Inc. (San Jose), a 2005 startup led by a group of electronics industry veterans, is offering direct-write digital imaging technology for pc board production. Its first product is the MLI-2027 direct-write lithography system.
www.maskless.com
MaxIC Technology Corp. (Beijing), a fabless IC design company with operations in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, was founded in March 2008 by a group of overseas returnees with both senior management and technical experience. It focuses on designing, developing and marketing advanced analog, mixed-signal and power management integrated circuits.
www.maxictech.com
MimoOn GmbH (Duisberg, Germany), founded in 2006, supplies a software implementation of the 3GPP LTE physical layer and protocol stack for infrastructure devices and terminals.
www.mimoon.de
Mirics Semiconductor Inc. (Fleet, U.K.), a fabless RF and mixed-signal chip startup founded in 2004, has developed software demodulation technology that can be used with its reconfigurable tuner to receive multiple broadcast standards.
www.mirics.com
*Movea SA (San Jose) is a provider of motion processing chips, software, embeddable firmware and IP for consumer electronics. Formed in March 2007 as a spinout from French research institute CEA-Leti, Movea acquired the Gyration consumer electronics brand in 2008.
www.movea.com
Movidius Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland), founded as Movidia in 2005, is a fabless semiconductor company whose processor and application software delivers video editing and post-production capabilities for the creation of user-generated content for mobile social networking. Movidius, with offices in Dublin and Hong Kong and a software development center in Romania, is backed by Celtic House Venture Partners, Capital-E, Emertec Gestion, AIB Seed Capital Fund and Enterprise Ireland.
www.movidius.com
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Nano ePrint Ltd. (Manchester, U.K.) was formed in 2006 to commercialize technology developed at the University of Manchester. Nano ePrint’s technology enables planar nanoelectronic circuits to be fabricated via single-step patterning. Nano ePrint has also developed a configurable circuit architecture to deliver the world’s first printed programmable logic circuits.
www.nanoeprint.com
O
OneChip Photonics Inc. (Ottawa), founded in 2005, develops and manufactures low-cost, high-performance optical transceivers based on monolithic photonic ICs using indium phosphide. The devices are used for access networks and other mass-market broadband applications.
www.onechipphotonics.com
OneSpin Solutions GmbH (Munich, Germany) is an Infineon Technologies spinoff, founded in 2005, that focuses on formal assertion-based verification tools for system-on-chip, ASIC and FPGA designs.
www.onespin-solutions.com
Open Kernel Labs (Chicago), with origins in Australia, develops “virtualization software” for mobile phones and broadband devices. The company was founded in 2006 and raised $7.6 million in venture capital in 2009.
www.ok-labs.com
Ozmo Devices Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.), founded in 2004 as H-Stream Wireless, develops wireless personal area network connectivity for battery-operated devices based on Wi-Fi communications.
www.ozmodevices.com
P
Parallel Engines Corp. (Cupertino) was founded in April 2008 with the goal of bringing together the EDA and semiconductor intellectual property worlds. With design moving to extensive IP block reuse, Parallel Engines is attempting to integrate many vendors from the supply chain into the design team.
www.parallelengines.com
*Pixel Qi Corp. (San Bruno, Calif.) designs liquid-crystal displays that can be operated in black-and-white reflective mode (with the backlight switched off) in ambient light, allowing for significant power savings. The LCDs can be produced on conventional fabrication equipment. The company was formed in 2008 by Mary Lou Jepson, who had previously served as CTO of the One Laptop per Child project.
www.pixelqi.com
*Polyteda Software Corp. (Toronto) was co-founded in 2005 by Vlad Marchuk to develop physical verification EDA tools. Marchuk, now Polyteda’s president and CEO, graduated from Kiev Polytechnical Institute in 1988 and helped develop the OTTO layout debugger before heading up Cadence’s R&D team in Moscow.
www.polyteda.com
Powervation Ltd. (Limerick, Ireland), founded in 2006, is a fabless semiconductor startup that has produced a digital control chip for power converters.
www.powervation.com
Q
Quantenna Communications Inc. (Sunnyvale), founded in 2006, is a developer of silicon for wireless networking that delivers guaranteed wireless bandwidth.
www.quantenna.com
R
Rayspan Corp. (San Diego), founded in 2006, is an innovator in metamaterial air interface technology for wireless communications. Metamaterials provide improvements in antenna and RF front-end component miniaturization. Rayspan’s solutions support fixed and mobile wireless WAN and LAN applications, including all 2/3/4G cellular handsets, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
www.rayspan.com
RedMere Technology Ltd. (Dublin) is developing chips for HDMI connectors to support multigigabit/second wireline communications. The company has raised about $19 million since its founding in 2004 and has released its first chips.
www.redmere.com
RFaxis Inc. (Irvine, Calif.), founded January 2008, uses BiCMOS process technology in conjunction with its own technology to create integrated RF front-end ICs for wireless standards including Bluetooth, WLAN, Zigbee, WiMax and mobile phone markets.
www.rfaxis.com
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Camsols
11/9/2010 5:08 AM EST
IMHO, e-con Systems Inc., is worth a mention in this article. e-con Systems is an embedded product development Services Company focused on end-end product development. With expertise in mobile processors such has XScale PXA270, PXA320, AU1250, i.MX, OMAP35x etc., e-con helps customers on development of products such as digital picture frames, point of sale terminals, hand-held single board computers etc., using its product engineering services. Besides this, e-con provides system integration services such as Windows Embedded CE or Linux BSP porting solutions and device driver development.
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goafrit
11/9/2010 8:20 AM EST
This is a good list to notice future acquisition targets. Good job fro bringing these firms to the public knowledge.
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docdivakar
11/17/2010 2:39 PM EST
Nice list... interesting Achronix is at the top of A-list. They have been in the news lately with their decision to use Intel's fab business.
The supply chain flow identified for Achronix's Speedster22i is all within the US locations end-to-end:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-products/electronic-product-reviews/fpga-pld-products/4210286/Achronix-s-next-gen-FPGAs-in-Intel-s-22nm-process
This may bode well for military and aerospace applications which require “on shore” silicon but is that volume big enough for sustaining Achronix? The supply chain solution has to change quickly to lower cost destinations if Achronix has to compete in the consumer products market.
Dr. MP Divakar
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Mark Wehrmeister
11/22/2010 1:36 PM EST
It's great to see two Portland, Oregon area companies on this list - Avnera Corporation and Fresco Logic. The "Silicon Forest" is alive and well thanks to companies like this.
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NimrodO0l1
10/10/2011 6:09 PM EDT
I looked at the site and checked into jobs.
Sadly, all the technical jobs are in Taiwan or mainland China.
Much of the Silicon Forest has been chopped into little chips and shipped to Asia.
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Hillol
11/25/2010 5:20 AM EST
AgO Analog and RF Circuit Optimization Company
EE Times: www.bit.ly/ago-eepress
www.ago-inc.com
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peter.clarke
11/26/2010 7:22 AM EST
@Hillol
Thanks for the reference to your company
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Dr DSP
11/26/2010 7:47 PM EST
Is there a summary of the companies that were on the previous list and folded? How many are there?
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garydpdx
1/24/2011 12:18 PM EST
Maybe the best that one can hope for is a dump of all companies that have ever appeared on the list and let readers figure that out from their own research. Then you would still have to contend with name changes (e.g., Silicon Forest Labs became Lighthouse Technologies before its acquisition by Mentor Graphics, where the inFact verification technology originated) and relaunches (e.g., Space Codesign in Montreal; disclaimer: I am involved in the 2.0 version of that firm). By the way, I'm not sure if Lighthouse ever appeared in earlier editions of this EE Times list but I hope that Space will, next time!
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adam88
12/16/2010 12:19 PM EST
Heard a rumor that SiBeam CEO stepped down (secretly). Not sure if it's true or not.
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peter.clarke
1/24/2011 1:02 PM EST
I guess I could do a super list of all the companies that have ever appeared on the Silicon 60.....they are dropping off the list fast at the moment due to acquisitions; OneSpin Solutions being the latest.
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fpgaace
3/9/2011 8:47 AM EST
Can you check into Tabula?
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peter.clarke
4/5/2011 10:49 AM EDT
Check into Tabula? What about?
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NimrodO0l1
10/10/2011 6:26 PM EDT
Umm, SpectraWatt?
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4219234/Intel-s-solar-spinoff-files-for-bankruptcy
Seems like the promising companies are flaming out faster than you can get the list printed.
I view the previous sentence as more sad than sarcastic.
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Lithium-ion Battery
10/28/2011 7:32 AM EDT
Good topics.
http://www.lxt-group.com/02/en Lithium-ion Battery
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cjara
7/24/2012 11:09 AM EDT
Hello Peter do you know where this information was generated? I'm working with professors who are analyzing the behaviors of founders in the Silicon Valley region. Right now we are trying to find different areas to gather the information. Thanks!!
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peter.clarke
3/26/2013 12:18 PM EDT
@cjara
This information was generated by EE Times staff.
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