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This article showcases our top picks for the best Santa Clara based Semiconductor companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Semiconductor industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Santa Clara Semiconductor Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Applied Materials
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Applied Materials provides manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries.
Nuvia
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Nuvia develops processors intended to create high-performance silicon design for a compute-intensive world.
Astera Labs
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Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that provides connectivity solutions for intelligent systems.
AMD
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Crossbar
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Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Analog Inference
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Analog Inference is a semiconductor company developing products in the neural computing segment.
Crocus Technology
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Crocus Technology provides magnetic random access memory products and technologies for the semiconductor and electronic systems industries.
Adesto Technologies
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Adesto Technologies is a semiconductor company developing ultralow-power, embedded, non-volatile memory technology.
Achronix Semiconductor
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Achronix offers high-density and high-performance application-targeted FPGAs for communication applications.
Efinix
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An innovator in programmable product platforms & technology.
Geo Semiconductor
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Geo Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that designs video and geometry processing integrated circuits (ICs).
Anello Photonics
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Anello Photonics offers patented Anello SiPhOG gyroscope offers an affordable mass-market sensor with true Optical Gyroscope performance.
Expedera
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Expedera provider of scalable neural engine semiconductor IP.
xMEMS
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xMEMS designs solutions and applications by integrating smart methodologies for a range of consumer electronics devices.
Netronome Systems
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Netronome develops highly programmable semiconductor products used for intelligent flow processing in network and communications devices.
AnDAPT
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AnDAPT brings a new kind Analog and Digital Adaptive Platform Technology.
Aeonsemi
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Aeonsemi is a fabless IC startup company developing analog mixed-signal DSP centric products for network communication application.
Corigine
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Corigine delivers innovative solutions in connectivity, storage, and machine learning for cloud, automotive, and emerging applications.
eASIC
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eASIC is a fabless semiconductor company that offers NEW ASIC devices used to produce customized silicon devices.
Palma Ceia SemiDesign
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Palma Ceia SemiDesign offers analog and RF IP for emerging WiFi, LTE, and wireline applications.
Kilopass
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Kilopass Technology develops an advanced embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) technology, manufactured in standard logic CMOS processes.
Marvell
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Marvell is a technology company that manufactures and offers integrated circuit solutions using communications mixed-signal processing.
Ambarella
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Ambarella manufactures low power, high definition video compression and image processing semiconductors.
Helic
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Helic is a semiconductor company specializing in Electronic Design Automation software.
Silicon Catalyst
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World’s only startup incubator focused exclusively on semiconductor solutions
Applied Ventures
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Applied Ventures is the venture capital fund of Applied Materials, the global leader in nanomanufacturing technology.
OmniVision Technologies
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OmniVision Technologies is a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions. Its award-winning CMOS imaging technology enables
Intel Corporation (UK)
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Intel Corporation manufactures microprocessors for desktop and notebook PCs, servers, and workstations.
Silvaco
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Silvaco offers technology computer aided design (TCAD) software, circuit simulation.
OURS Technology
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OURS Technology is a developer of sensor fusion and optical sensing technology intended for autonomous driving and robotic applications.
Brion Technologies
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Brion Technologies is a division of ASML and an industry leader in computational lithography for integrated circuits.
Tanzanite Silicon Solutions
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Tanzanite Silicon Solutions specializes in creating silicon-centric products.
Futurewei Technologies
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Futurewei develops innovations to benefit an intelligent & digital society via standardization, open source, & collaboration with ecosystem.
Fortemedia
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Fortemedia is the industry leader in voice processing technology.
Analogix Semiconductor
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Analogix Semiconductor designs and manufactures high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for the digital media market.
Advanced Analogic Technologies
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Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated (AATI), or AnalogicTech, develops advanced semiconductor system solutions that play a key role
Covalent Metrology Services, Inc.
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Dedicated to providing materials innovation companies of all sizes access to high quality metrology, both in-house and externally
Beceem Communications
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Beceem Communications is a semiconductor company specializing in the WiMAX marketplace.
PMC-Sierra
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PMC-Sierra, the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, offers its customers technical and sales support.
Synapse
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Synapse is an industry leader in design services and is the engineering backbone of most top tier Semiconductor and System companies.
Quintic
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Quintic is a Chinese chip design company focused on providing low power consumption and cost-effective wireless access solutions.
Silego Technology
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Silego Technology develops semiconductor timing and frequency generators for the computing and consumer electronics marketplace.
Avatar Integrated Systems
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Avatar Integrated Systems is a software company in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry.
PA Semi
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PA Semi develops high-end, low-power microprocessors for embedded computing.
ReVera
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ReVera provides next generation metrology to monitor and control films and critical layers in the semiconductor manufacturing process.
Jspeed Design Automation
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Jspeed Design Automatio is build world-class IC routing engine with superior capacity, speed,and quality to minimize the physical cycle.
Riga Analytical Lab
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Riga Analytical Lab is an independent laboratory offering confidential analytical services to the semiconductor and electronic industries.
Simutest
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Simutest provides test automation software solutions.
Hot Chips
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Hot Chips is a semiconductor industry-based conference on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits.
Verilux Design Technology
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Verilux Design Technology provides solutions for physical design.
Oren Semiconductor
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Oren Semiconductor provides edge demodulator ICs for the global high definition television market.
Solutions EnabLing nano Analysis
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SELA develops and adapts technologies to provide roadmap solutions for physical failure analysis.
Parallel Synthesis Technologies
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Parallel Synthesis Technologies provides microfabricated silicon tools and devices for the genomic & proteomic communities.
MarvellTech
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MarvellTech specializes in “storage solutions, consumer solutions, enterprise solutions, cloud infrastructure and IoT”.
Moscape
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Moscape is a privately held company provides assertion-based electrical integrity solutions for DSM designs.
O21C Co
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A Santa Clara, Calif. and Seoul, South Korea-based fables semicondcutor company
MaskTools
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MaskTools is a designer and developer of an optical lithography extension solutions for the semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Nanoamp Solution
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NanoAmp Solutions designs, manufactures, and markets ultra-low-power and low-voltage semiconductor and integrated circuit (IC) solutions.
Extreme DA
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Extreme DA offers software, IP and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing for the global electronics market.
Jasper Display
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Jasper Display is a fabless semiconductor company that offers Spatial Light Modulators (SLM) and CMOS backplanes for LCoS and μLED.
Inphi – Memory Interconnect Business
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Inphi – Memory Interconnect Business provider of mixed-signal semiconductor solutions.
Posedge
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Posedge is a supplier of wired/wireless secure networking semiconductor Intellectual Property (“IP”) solutions for SoC/FPGA.
Sintegra
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Sintegra is a provider of solutions for silicon integration.
Sagantec
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Sagantec accelerates implementation of physical silicon IP in advanced process technologies.
Nangate
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NanGate Library Creation Platform™ is an integrated and easy-to-use solution for the creation and optimization of digital cell libraries.
Montalvo Systems
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Montalvo Systems is a fabless semiconductor company developing low-power media processors for mobile devices.
StratumOne Communications
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StratumOne Communications is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer.
Protocol Debug Analyzer (PDA)
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The Protocol Debug Analyzer tool helps reduce debug time by simplifying the debug process.
Impakt
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A speciality global vertically-integrated contract manufacturer that offers flexible and configurable solutions for our customers.
Opal, Inc.
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Opal, Inc. is a supplier of CD-SEM systems for use in semiconductor manufacturing.
Ensphere Solutions
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Ensphere Solutions offers a range of high performance semiconductor ICs and IP cores for wireless, wired, and optical communications.
Silicon Perspective Corp.
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Silicon Perspective Corp. offers full-chip silicon virtual prototypes that provided design closure throughout the design cycle.
Vacuum Engineering & Materials
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Vacuum Engineering & Materials specializes in the manufacturing of PVD sputtering targets, evaporation materials and crucible liners.
Power Down Semiconductor
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We developed Low Power Processing (or LPP™). The technology uses a “pseudo-adiabatic” technique to recycle charge and prevent CV2f losses.
LGA Thin Films
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LGA Thin Films provides vacuum deposited thin films for medical imaging devices, semiconductors and optical components.
Ultrachip
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UltraChip is a prominent fabless IC company in the mobile multimedia IC industry.
Quartet Mechanics Inc
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Quartet Mechanics is an electronics company with expertise in semiconductor, LED, MEMS, photovoltaic solar & medical/lab automation systems.
e-MDT America
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e-MDT America specializes in designing ultra-low-power driver integrated circuits (ICs) and backplanes for many kinds of displays.
PulseCore, Inc.
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PulseCore, Inc. is a fables semiconductor company specializing in high speed and low power mixed signal designs.
Anchor Semiconductor
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Anchor Semiconductor offers a design for manufacturability platform that optimizes semiconductor pattern transfer processes.
MicroElec Technical
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MicroElec Technical is a premier semiconductor & Micro-Electronics technology representative company in Silicon Valley.
Esencia Technologies Inc.
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Esencia Technologies is a provider of design services in digital signal.
Marseille Networks
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Marseille Networks offers technologies for video processing, compression and networking, and semiconductor development.
SoCtronics
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SoCtronics is a customer-focused VLSI design and embedded software service company operating since 2003.
Tensilica
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Tensilica is a fabless semiconductor company developing customizable dataplane processor IP cores.
QMAT
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QMAT is developing advanced materials technologies for applications in the electronics industry.
SensArray Corp
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SensArray Corp provides wafer level process metrology used for monitoring and controlling critical semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Qualcomm Atheros
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Qualcomm Atheros offers semiconductor system solutions for the mobile, networking, computing and consumer electronics markets.
Transmeta
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Transmeta Corporation develops and licenses computing, microprocessor and semiconductor technologies and related intellectual property.
BroadLight
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BroadLight is a supplier of communication semiconductors and optical transceivers for cost-effective FTTP (Fiber-to-the-Premises).
Siliconix
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Siliconix is develops power semiconductor products.
California Eastern Laboratories (CEL)
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California Eastern Laboratories is a semiconductors company that offers RF and optical components.
Mobilygen
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Mobilygen Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company focused on developing multimedia processors.
Provigent
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Provigent is a fabless semiconductor company providing SoC solutions for the broadband wireless transmission industry.
Berkeley Design Automation
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Berkeley Design Automation provides nanometer circuit verification for analog, mixed-signal, RF, and custom digital verification.
ChipX
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ChipX is a mixed-signal ASIC company that designs and manufactures application-specific integrated circuit solutions.
Zeevo
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Zeevo, Inc. develops system-on-chip solutions for Bluetooth and other wireless communications applications.
Multibeam
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Multibeam is an electron-beam technology provider that specializes in the development of multicolumn e-beam systems.
ZettaCom
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ZettaCom is a manufactures and supplies chipset solutions to core multi-service switch and router original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
