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EE Times updates ‘Silicon 60’ list of emerging startups
Peter Clarke
11/7/2010 6:48 PM EST
The companies: S-Z
Samplify Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2006, is a fabless mixed-signal semiconductor company that combines digital processing and high-performance analog to create intelligent data converters.
www.samplify.com
*Seeo Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.) was founded in 2007 with an exclusive license to advanced technology from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the goal of creating high-energy rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Seeo was established with initial funding from Khosla Ventures.
www.seeo.com
SiBeam Inc. (Sunnyvale) was founded in December 2004 by a team from the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, along with several wireless and high-speed communications industry veterans. The company claims to be the first to have built 60-GHz chip sets using CMOS technology.
www.sibeam.com
SiliconBlue Technologies Corp. (Santa Clara) has developed a range of FPGAs designed for low power and aimed at handheld, mobile applications. Kapil Shankar, a 20-year veteran of the programmable logic industry, founded the company in late 2005.
www.siliconbluetech.com
SiOnyx Inc. (Beverly, Mass.) has licensed a portfolio of shallow-junction photonics patents developed by Harvard University in exchange for an unspecified equity stake and downstream royalties. Eric Mazur and James Carey founded the company in 2006 to exploit the optoelectronic properties of so-called black silicon.
www.sionyx.com
Socowave Ltd. (Dublin), founded in 2008, has connections with University College Dublin. The company, founded by CEO Joe Moore, offers active panel antenna technology, which lets mobile phone operators apply beamforming to improve cellular efficiency as basestations communicate with handsets.
www.socowave.com
Solido Design Automation Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.) was founded in 2005 to address process variation for transistor-level designers. Solido has developed a proprietary set of algorithms that forms the core of its technology.
www.soliodesign.com
SpectraWatt Inc. (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), a maker of solar cells, was founded in June 2008 from assets spun out of Intel Corp. and complemented by a $50 million Series A round from investors including Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs and solar module maker Solon SE. SpectraWatt constructed its first solar cell factory in 2009.
www.spectrawatt.com
*SuVolta Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.), a startup formed in 2005 as DSM Solutions Inc., has revealed some details of its plan to achieve low-power IC operation through the use of complementary junction FET technology.
www.suvolta.com
Tiempo SA (Grenoble, France), founded in 2007, specializes in the design of asynchronous ICs and provides IP for asynchronous cores in microcontrollers, microprocessors, cryptoprocessors, and communications and sensor interfaces.
www.tiempo-ic.com
Tilera Corp. (San Jose) develops multicore processors and associated compilers for the networking, wireless and multimedia infrastructure markets. MIT computer science professor Anant Agarwal founded the company in 2004 and is its CTO.
www.tilera.com
*Ubidyne GmbH (Ulm, Germany) is an embedded antenna and digital wireless specialist. It was launched in 2005 and completed a $43 million Series B round in August 2009.
www.ubidyne.com
*Vector Fabrics BV (Eindhoven) is developing tools for the design and implementation of multicore, multithreaded applications and embedded systems. Founded in 2007, the company released its first product, vfAnalyst, in May 2010.
www.vectorfabrics.com
*Verayo Inc. (San Jose), formed in 2005 as PUFco, is bringing to market a range of security and authentication technology based on physical unclonable functions. PUFs are physical aspects of a device that are readily evaluated but hard to predict or build in; as such, the physical characteristic can become the basis of a key for security. The technology is based on work originally performed at MIT by professor Srini Devadas and his team.
www.verayo.com
XMOS Semiconductor Ltd. (Bristol, U.K.), founded by academic computer scientist David May in 2006, is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed a range of ICs based on multiple event-driven processors. Designs are created in high-level languages, delivering hardware from a software-based design flow.
www.xmos.com
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Samplify Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2006, is a fabless mixed-signal semiconductor company that combines digital processing and high-performance analog to create intelligent data converters.
www.samplify.com
*Seeo Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.) was founded in 2007 with an exclusive license to advanced technology from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the goal of creating high-energy rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Seeo was established with initial funding from Khosla Ventures.
www.seeo.com
SiBeam Inc. (Sunnyvale) was founded in December 2004 by a team from the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, along with several wireless and high-speed communications industry veterans. The company claims to be the first to have built 60-GHz chip sets using CMOS technology.
www.sibeam.com
SiliconBlue Technologies Corp. (Santa Clara) has developed a range of FPGAs designed for low power and aimed at handheld, mobile applications. Kapil Shankar, a 20-year veteran of the programmable logic industry, founded the company in late 2005.
www.siliconbluetech.com
SiOnyx Inc. (Beverly, Mass.) has licensed a portfolio of shallow-junction photonics patents developed by Harvard University in exchange for an unspecified equity stake and downstream royalties. Eric Mazur and James Carey founded the company in 2006 to exploit the optoelectronic properties of so-called black silicon.
www.sionyx.com
Socowave Ltd. (Dublin), founded in 2008, has connections with University College Dublin. The company, founded by CEO Joe Moore, offers active panel antenna technology, which lets mobile phone operators apply beamforming to improve cellular efficiency as basestations communicate with handsets.
www.socowave.com
Solido Design Automation Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.) was founded in 2005 to address process variation for transistor-level designers. Solido has developed a proprietary set of algorithms that forms the core of its technology.
www.soliodesign.com
SpectraWatt Inc. (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), a maker of solar cells, was founded in June 2008 from assets spun out of Intel Corp. and complemented by a $50 million Series A round from investors including Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs and solar module maker Solon SE. SpectraWatt constructed its first solar cell factory in 2009.
www.spectrawatt.com
*SuVolta Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.), a startup formed in 2005 as DSM Solutions Inc., has revealed some details of its plan to achieve low-power IC operation through the use of complementary junction FET technology.
www.suvolta.com
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Tiempo SA (Grenoble, France), founded in 2007, specializes in the design of asynchronous ICs and provides IP for asynchronous cores in microcontrollers, microprocessors, cryptoprocessors, and communications and sensor interfaces.
www.tiempo-ic.com
Tilera Corp. (San Jose) develops multicore processors and associated compilers for the networking, wireless and multimedia infrastructure markets. MIT computer science professor Anant Agarwal founded the company in 2004 and is its CTO.
www.tilera.com
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*Ubidyne GmbH (Ulm, Germany) is an embedded antenna and digital wireless specialist. It was launched in 2005 and completed a $43 million Series B round in August 2009.
www.ubidyne.com
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*Vector Fabrics BV (Eindhoven) is developing tools for the design and implementation of multicore, multithreaded applications and embedded systems. Founded in 2007, the company released its first product, vfAnalyst, in May 2010.
www.vectorfabrics.com
*Verayo Inc. (San Jose), formed in 2005 as PUFco, is bringing to market a range of security and authentication technology based on physical unclonable functions. PUFs are physical aspects of a device that are readily evaluated but hard to predict or build in; as such, the physical characteristic can become the basis of a key for security. The technology is based on work originally performed at MIT by professor Srini Devadas and his team.
www.verayo.com
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XMOS Semiconductor Ltd. (Bristol, U.K.), founded by academic computer scientist David May in 2006, is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed a range of ICs based on multiple event-driven processors. Designs are created in high-level languages, delivering hardware from a software-based design flow.
www.xmos.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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