Some companies have left the original list, otherwise known as The Silicon 60, because they have been acquired; some have moved to an initial public offering of shares; and others have moved beyond the list simply with the passing of time, as they have matured and other younger startups have been nominated to move off the Silicon Strategies radar list and on to the main list.

In version 2.0 of Silicon Strategies' 60 Emerging Startups editors from the online site have selected companies based on a mix of criteria including: technology, intended market, maturity, financial position, and investment profile. The startups on the Silicon 60 list are those involved in semiconductors, fab equipment, packaging, foundry, materials, MEMS and EDA software that made an impression. They are emerging companies to watch for a wide variety of reasons.

Silicon Strategies welcomes the following companies to the 60 Emerging Startups list version 2.0: Analogix Semiconductor Inc., Apache Design Solutions Inc., Arteris SA, BridgeCo AG, Cambridge Semiconductor Ltd., Cavendish Kinetics NV, Eink Inc., Epion Corp., Ignios Ltd., Lumarray LLC, Magnetic Solutions Ltd., NanoChip Inc., Nawotec GmbH, NovoCell Semiconductor Inc., Ntera Ltd., Nujira Ltd., Rave LLC, TeraView Ltd., Transfer Devices Inc., Xelerated Inc.

Readers are welcome to provide comment and even nominate their own emerging start-ups for inclusion on a subsequent iteration of the "Silicon Strategies' 60 Emerging Startups" list. Nominations should be accompanied by a short citation in favor of the company concerned. Send comments and nominations to Silicon Strategies Editor Mark LaPedus (mlapedus@cmp.com) and News Director Peter Clarke (pclarke@cmp.com).

Silicon Strategies' 60 Emerging Start-ups

* Adiabatic Logic Ltd. (Cambridge, England), is focused on creating and licensing intellectual property (IP) in the low-power technology area. The company has developed an Intelligent Output Driver (IOD), which it claims can deliver up to 75 percent power savings in chip I/O. www.adiabaticlogic.com

* Alereon Inc. (Austin, Texas), a fabless semiconductor company seeking to compete in the ultra wideband (UWB) market, raised $31.5 million in first round funding announced January 2004. www.alereon.com

* American Semiconductor Inc. (Boise, Idaho) A pure-play foundry for wafer fabrication and advanced process development. The company was founded in November 2001 and provides SOI foundry services. www.americansemi.com

Analogix Semiconductor Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif., and Beijing, China) a start-up with operations split between Silicon Valley and Beijing, has introduced physical-layer transceiver ICs that can achieve up to 25-Gbit/s data rate over copper wire. www.analogix.com

Apache Design Solutions Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) Apache is a provider of physical power integrity software. www.apache-da.com

* Arithmatica Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.) develops and licenses IP libraries based on proprietary math circuitry. www.arithmatica.com

Arteris SA (Paris, France) is an intellectual-property vendor in Paris, that is commercializing a packet-based on-chip network. It's founders are the beneficiaries of the sell off of a previous startup, T.sqware Inc. www.arteris.net

* Axon Technologies Corp. (Scottsdale, Arizona) Arizona State University spin-off with a programmable metallization memory technology. Recently cut a deal with Infineon Technologies Inc. www.axontc.com

BridgeCo AG (Zurich, Switzerland) is developing consumer electronics based on proprietary networking and signal processor technology. The company has received investment from Intel Capital in multiple rounds. www.bridgeco.net

Cambridge Semiconductor Ltd. (Cambridge, England) was founded in August 2000 as a fabless power semiconductor spin-off company from the local university. It appointed former LSI Logic executive and Cantab-man David Baillie as its chief executive officer in March 2004. www.camsemi.co.uk

Cavendish Kinetics NV (Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands) A ten-year old startup that has built working silicon of a MEMS switch engineered as a non-volatile memory element. The company said it intends to introduce its first product, in the form of licensable intellectual property for an electronically settable fuse, in the third quarter of 2004. www.cavendish-kinetics.com

* Cornice Inc. (Longmont, Colorado), a start-up developing miniature disk recording modules for portable consumer electronics, secured $51 million in a second round of venture financing in February 2004. www.corniceco.com

* CriticalBlue Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland) EDA and IP for hardware acceleration, co-processing. www.criticalblue.com

Eink Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Founded in 1997 E Ink is developing display products and includes among its investors and strategic partners Royal Philips Electronics NV, The Hearst Corp., Air Products and Chemicals Inc., and Motorola Inc. www.eink.com

* Elixent Ltd. (Bristol, England) Reconfigurable parallel processing fabric. Deal to combine technology with Toshiba's MeP multimedia processor. www.elixent.com

Epion Corp. (Boston, Massachusetts) developing so-called infusion doping system for shallow junction doping www.epion.com

* Fab Solutions Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan) Fab Solutions was established in February 2002 as a spin-off from NEC and markets an electron beam metrology system. www.fabsol.com

* Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. (Calabash, California) is developing asynchronous processors and switching fabric. It is the latest in a series of companies that has tried to make a success of clock-less logic. www.fulcrummicro.com

* Icera Semiconductor Ltd. (Bristol, Cambridge, England) is a DSP for 3G company founded by, amongst others, the founder of Element14 Ltd., which was eventually sold to Broadcom Corp. www.icerasemi.com

Ignios Ltd. (Oxford, England) a company formed in 2003 is developing a scheduling and monitoring hardware and software infrastructure, called SystemWeaver, which is intended to ease the use multiple cores on a single chip. www.ignios.com

* Innovative Silicon Inc. (Lausanne, Switzerland) is a 2002 start-up founded by Pierre Fazan (CEO) developing SOI-based single-transistor memory reportedly denser than DRAM. www.innovativesilicon.com

* Inovys Corp. (Pleasanton, Calif.), a supplier of automatic test equipment (ATE) raised $16.3 million dollars in Series C finance in February 2004. First customer is Motorola. www.inovys.com

* Intrinsity Inc. (Austin, Texas) has developed a form of dynamic logic, called Fast14, which it is licensing to such companies as ATI Technology Inc. It is claimed that the Fast14 logic can speed processor performance up compared with standard design approaches. Intrinsity has also developed a FastMath processor. www.intrinsity.com

* Jazz Semiconductor (Newport Beach, Calif.) A spin-off of Conexant, silicon-germanium foundry Jazz is expected to make an initial public offering of shares soon. www.jazzsemi.com

* Kilopass Technology Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) was founded in early 2001 to develop and market non-volatile memory technology, manufactured in standard commercial CMOS logic manufacturing processes. Announced first round venture capital funding in January 2004. www.kilopass.com

* Lenslet Ltd. (Herzelia, Israel) Founded in 1999 Lenslet is the developer of the Enlight256, a photonic digital signal processing system. www.lenslet.com

Lumarray LLC (Lexington, Massachusetts) formed to pursue maskless optical lithography based on technology originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). www.lumarray.com

Magnetic Solutions Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) designs and builds magnetic annealing systems. www.magnetic-solutions.com

* Mapper Lithography BV (Delft, The Netherlands) is a lithography start-up working on multi-beam, maskless lithography technology. www.mapperlithography.com

* Matrix Semiconductor Inc. (Santa Clara, California) Founded in 1998 and the recipient of over $150 million in funding. The company claims to have shipped multi-layered three-dimensional memory devices in 2003. www.matrixsemi.com

* Memsic Inc. (Norwood Mass. and Wuxi, China) is a 1999 spin off from Analog Devices Inc. with a wholly owned subsidiary (Memsic Semiconductor Ltd.) located in Wuxi, China. CMOS circuitry is set down on wafers by technology partner TSMC with space left for micro-machining at Wuxi. www.memsic.com

* Molecular Imprints Inc. (Austin, Texas) was founded in 2001 to design, develop, manufacture and support imprint lithography systems to be used by semiconductor device and other industry manufacturers. The company claims to be the largest organization in the world, working solely on imprint lithography. www.molecularimprints.com

NanoChip Inc. (Fremont, California) is developing removable storage chip products based upon the use of microelectromechanical sstems (MEMS). www.nanochip.com

* NanoInk Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) is a private company seeking to commercialize so-called 'Dip Pen Nanolithography' (DPN), a process for building nanometer-scale structures and patterns by drawing molecules onto a substrate. www.nanoink.net

* NanoMagnetics Ltd. (Bristol, England) manufactures magnetic particles, which it is calling DataInk, inside hollow protein spheres with an inner diameter of 8 nanometers. www.nanomagnetics.com

* Nanonex Corp. (Princeton, New Jersey) provides a line of nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technology, including tools, resists, masks, and processes. Spun out of Princeton University. www.nanonex.com

* Nantero Inc. (Woburn Mass.) is developing a non-volatile memory based on the bi-modal stability of a carbon nanotube matrix laid across an etched trench. www.nantero.com

Nawotec GmbH (Rossdorf, Germany) NaWoTec, founded in December 1999 as a spin off from Deutsche Telekom AG, has developed an electron beam mask repair tool. www.nawotec.de

Novocell Semiconductor Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Founded in September 2002 Novocell has developed and shipped a low-density non-volatile memory. www.novocellsemi.com

NTera Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) Founded in 1997 Ntera is an electrochromic display company. www.ntera.com

Nujira Ltd. (Cambridge, England) a start-up formed late in 2002. The company, formed out of the ashes of Symbionics Ltd. and Tality Corp. has applied for patent coverage of architecture and techniques for creating more efficient power amplifiers, which it claims could save 30 percent of the total cost of ownership over the lifetime of a network of cellular basestations. www.nujira.com

* Plastic Logic Ltd. (Cambridge, England) is a spin-off from Cambridge University that aims to combine plastic electronics with printing for low cost. www.plasticlogic.com

* Polymer Vision NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Polymer Vision is a business initiative within the Philips Technology Incubator aiming to bring flexible displays to market by combining polymer electronics with electronic ink. www.polymervision.com

Rave LLC (Delray Beach, Florida) Rave supplies nanomachining solutions as a method of repair of advanced photomasks. www.ravellc.com

* Revera Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) A start-up involved in surface and compositional metrology. www.revera.com

* Saifun Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel) Developer of flash technology now licensed to many major players in flash market, but not Intel Corp. www.saifun.com

* Silecs Inc. (San Jose, California and Espoo, Finland) is a specialist in low-k materials, working with Cypress. www.silecs.com

* Silicon Hive NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Philips spin-off developer of the Avispa family of reconfigurable IP cores/processors. www.siliconhive.com

* Si-Light Technologies Ltd. (Guildford, England) is a spin-off from the University of Surrey, formed to investigate the application of 'dislocation engineering' to enable light emission from silicon at wavelengths between 1.1-micron to 1.6-micron. www.si-light.com

* Soisic SA (Grenoble, France) Start-up focused on SOI semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and SOI design markets. www.soisic.com

* SplashPower Ltd. (Cambridge, England) is a developer of flat-bed inductive charging technology. www.splashpower.com

TeraView Ltd. (Cambridge, England) A spin-off from Toshiba Europe Laboratories working on the application of terahertz frequency waves for vision through optically opaque objects and for chemical analysis. The technology could have long-term implications for communications. www.teraview.com

* Teseda Corp. (Portland, Oregon) was founded in 2001. Based on a vision for new test products designed to reduce test cost and shorten time-to-market. Markets a DFT desktop tester. www.teseda.com

Transfer Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) A spin off from Stanford University, the company is involved in "pseudo-maskless" mask technology for nano-imprint lithography. www.transferdevices.com

* Transitive Corp. (Los Gatos, California, and Manchester, England) is a provider of technology that allows software to run on multiple processor architectures. www.transitive.com

Xelerated Inc. (Concord, Massachusetts) founded in Sweden in August 2000 to develop network processors. Xelerated's investors include Atlas Venture, Alta Partners and Startupfactory. www.xelerated.com

* Xignal Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) provides analog and mixed-signal intellectual property for broadband serial links www.xignal.com

* ZBD Displays Ltd. (Malvern, England) A spin-off from U.K. government owned defense research establishments has developed a non-volatile LCD. www.zbddisplays.com

* Zettacore Inc. (Denver, Colorado) is a developer of a molecular memory array. www.zettacore.com

* Ziptronix Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) is developing a new 3D packaging technology. www.ziptronix.com