Monday, May 25, 2009

Private Semiconductor Companies (Updated 6-8-2009)

In addition to public corporations, we gather intelligence on private semiconductor companies. While start-up funding has slowed considerably and the demise of UWB took a toll, here is my working list which is North America centric, by no means complete and contains a few names which are have halted operation. If you would like to add a company to the list, offer new insights or ask for additional research, please send us an e-mail.

Accel
Achronix
Active Semi
Aegis
Air
Alereon
Altair
Altierre
Alvand
Ambarella
Amalfi
Amimon
Analog Bits
Analogix
Ant
Aptina
asicNorth
Atrua
Audience
AuthenTec
Bay Microsystems
BCD Semiconductor
BinOptics
Black Sand
BrightScale
Cactus Custom Analog Designs
Canesta
Chrontel
ClariPhy
Comsys Mobile
Corsonic
Cortina
Crocus
Custom One Design
Custom Silicon Solutions
Desert Microtechnology
Direct2silicon
DisplayLink
DS2
eASIC
eSilicon
Enigma
Enpirion
Freescale
Fresco Logic
GCT Semiconductor
Grandis
Greyrock Technology
HVVi
Impinj
Indilinx
Innovasic
Inova
Inphi
Integral Wave
Integrated Memory Logic
iWatt
Kionix
Kolorific
Magna Lynx
MaxLinear
Mirics
Mixel
Mobius
mSilica
NanoAmp Solutions
Netronome
Parade Technologies
Parallel Semiconductor
Peregrine
PhaseLink
Plastic Logic
Provigent
PulseCore
Omni-ID
Open-Silicon
Qualtre
Quantenna
Quartics
Quintic
R2
Ralink
Rapid Bridge
RMI
Samplify
Sequans
Sequoia Communications
Schiltron
Scintera
SiBeam
Silego
Silicon Clocks
SiliconXpress
SiTime
SliceX
Sound Design Technologies
SpectraLinear
Spreadtrum
Stream Processors (SPI)
Stretch
Tag Array
Tallika
Telegent
Tensilica
Teridian
Tilera
Triad
Triune
Tzero
Unity
UPEK
Validity
ViXS
VT Silicon
WiSpry
Xelerated
Xmos