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SiFive designs customizable RISC-V processor cores and IP for embedded systems, IoT devices, automotive, and datacenter applications. Its Freedom platform includes microcontrollers, high-performance CPUs, and vector extensions with associated EDA toolchains. Santa Clara-headquartered SiFive licenses cores to Samsung, Western Digital, and Andes Technology. Founded in 2015, the company shipped over a billion RISC-V cores by 2023, powering chips from Qualcomm and NVIDIA partners.

Photonic is a Vancouver-headquartered company constructing a networked quantum computing platform using optically-linked silicon spin qubits. Its technology integrates photonics connectivity over telecom-band fiber for scalable, fault-tolerant quantum modules and networking.

Lightmatter is a Boston-headquartered designer of photonic computing chips that accelerate matrix multiplications for AI inference and training using silicon photonics. The Passage interconnect links GPU clusters with optical switches, while Envise processors target data center workloads in cloud and telecom sectors.

SemiDrive is a Nanjing-based developer of automotive processors for ADAS, autonomous driving, and smart cockpits. Its X9H series supports L2+ autonomy with 8-core ARM Cortex-A and NPU delivering 4 TOPS, manufactured on SMIC 16nm. The company supplies chips to Chinese OEMs like Great Wall Motor and BYD for domain controllers.

GTA Semiconductor is a China-based developer of semiconductor chips. The company conducts research and design for integrated circuits, producing power devices, power management ICs, and sensor chips applied in industrial control, automotive electronics, electricity distribution, and energy sectors.

XLMEC is the brand of Chongqing Xinlian Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a fabless designer of automotive-grade integrated circuits headquartered in Chongqing. It develops power management chips, sensor interfaces, and MCUs for electric vehicles and ADAS systems via xlmec.com. Certified to IATF 16949 standards, the company supplies tier-1 automakers in China's new energy vehicle sector.

PsiQuantum is a Palo Alto-headquartered quantum computing company building photonic-based fault-tolerant systems. The firm manufactures qubits in GlobalFoundries fabs, targeting 1 million-qubit processors by 2027 for climate modeling and drug discovery. PsiQuantum partners with DARPA and Australian government for utility-scale deployment.

Eliyan is a Milpitas-headquartered semiconductor innovator creating interconnect IP for chiplet ecosystems. The company's NuLink technology leverages standard organic substrates to deliver terabit-per-second bandwidth between dies, matching advanced packaging performance at reduced costs. Eliyan enables scalable multi-core processors for AI accelerators and data center servers with enhanced yield and testability.

SeeQC is a quantum computing company integrating superconducting qubits with classical processors. Elmsford, New York-headquartered since 2018, it maintains facilities in London and Naples. SeeQC develops single flux quantum electronics for readout, control, and error correction. Its chip-scale systems target enterprise applications in optimization and simulation. The firm collaborates with research institutions on scalable quantum hardware.

Axera is designing AI system-on-chips for edge computing applications. The NPU-powered SoCs like the AX650A deliver up to 12 TOPS performance for computer vision in smart cameras and drones. Shenzhen-headquartered, Axera supplies semiconductors to surveillance firms and IoT device manufacturers worldwide.

Etched is a semiconductor startup building specialized application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) designed exclusively to run transformer-based artificial intelligence models. Founded in 2022 and headquartered near Cupertino, California, the company aims to disrupt general-purpose GPU infrastructure by offering massive performance and power efficiency gains for large language model inference.

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc specializes in designing photonic devices and the platforms around them, including the experimentation and development of quantum computers available on the cloud with supporting software, along with quantum simulators and other related products and offerings.

Kunlun Chip operates as Baidu's dedicated AI semiconductor division. Beijing-based Kunlunxin designs processors such as Kunlun 1 for inference and Kunlun 2 for training, integrated into Baidu Cloud and PaddlePaddle deep learning platform. The chips deliver performance for computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems in data centers.

Aehr Test Systems is engaged in test systems for burning-in and testing logic, optical, and memory integrated circuits. Increased quality and reliability needs of the Automotive and Mobility integrated circuit markets. The Company operates in one business segment, the designing, manufacturing, marketing and selling of advanced test and burn-in products to the semiconductor manufacturing industry in several geographic areas. The company provides production solutions across the product manufacturing flow to improve yield and reliability and has developed and introduced several inventive products, including the ABTSTM and FOX-PTM families of test and burn-in systems and FOX WaferPakTM Aligner, FOX-XP WaferPak Contactor, FOX DiePak Carrier and FOX DiePak Loader.

Ambarella Inc is a developer of semiconductor processing solutions for high-definition video capture, sharing, and display. The firm's solutions are sold to original design manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers to be designed for use in infrastructure broadcast encoders, wearable device cameras, automotive cameras, security cameras, consumer cameras, and industrial and robotic applications. The company's system-on-a-chip designs, based on its proprietary technology platform, are configurable to applications in various end markets. Geographical presence in Taiwan, Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and the United States. The firm derives the majority of its revenue from Taiwan.

Melexis designs analog/mixed-signal automotive semiconductors for the automobile industry. Its chips measure position, temperature, electrical current, and pressure and convert real-world signals into digital signals to control car functionalities like the powertrain, rotation, safety systems, and pumps and fans, among others.