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Fulcrum
www.fulcrummicro.com
Fulcrum will introduce the semiconductor industry to a new breed of high-performance processors. Fulcrum's founders spent the last six years at the California Institute of Technology pioneering the field of delay-insensitive VLSI technology. Unlike synchronous logic and other asynchronous design styles, delay-insensitive asynchronous circuits do not glitch, have no race conditions, and do not use a system clock to control the flow of data through the system. These properties provide advantages in throughput, latency, power, and composability over all other known VLSI design methodologies.
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GigaFin
www.gigafin.com
GigaFin is developing an “Appliance-on-a-Chip” processor family.
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Luxim
www.luxim.com
The Luxim LiFiTM lamp provides an intelligent lighting solution for
high definition television, home theater and other projection display
systems. Luxim’s initial focus is on the projection display
market, but there are countless applications across other technologies
and market segments. Luxim’s patented electrode-less lamp provides
a source of stable, repeatable, full-spectrum illumination for thousands
of hours of operation, delivering true color fidelity and system reliability
with less than 10% reduction in light intensity over its 10,000 hour
lifetime.
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Miradia
www.miradia.com
Miradia develops, manufactures, and markets high-definition digital
micro display components based on MEMS (micro-electro mechanical systems)
technology. The company targets cost-competitive delivery of high-definition
display images for business and consumer applications. Miradia’s first
products will be used in business front projectors, home theater front
projectors, and rear projection televisions.
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QSecure
www.qsecure.com
QSecure is developing technology to secure credit and debit card magnetic
stripe transactions through a proprietary chip embedded in the magnetic
stripe. QSecure’s solution is compatible with all existing point-of-sale
terminals and transaction processing infrastructure and requires no
change to card acceptance systems. The solution is easily extensible
to include a small display to secure web based and other card-not-present
transactions.
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SiPix
www.sipix.com
Sipix designs digital imaging products and media. SiPix's technical expertise covers areas of optical imaging and digital photography as well as various digital printing technologies from printer design to imaging material development and manufacturing.
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Stretch
www.stretchinc.com
Stretch has created a new way to design semiconductor applications by extending the possibilities of the processor architecture.
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Tensilica
www.tensilica.com
Tensilica is an intellectual property licensing company developing a software system that generates high performance and low-cost application-specific processors.
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Accelerant (Aquired by Synopsys)
www.accelerant.net
Accelerant Networks is focused on developing innovative, highly-integrated silicon solutions that enable rapid development of a new class of intelligent networking equipment. The company combines expertise in advanced mixed signal circuit design and networking systems architecture to develop leading edge Integrated Circuits (ICs). These high-performance Communications ICs solve the most daunting bandwidth challenge in next generation networking equipment design: The Bottleneck in the Box.
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Aeluros (Aquired by Netlogic Microsystems)
www.aeluros.com
Aeluros is an early stage start-up developing integrated circuits for broadband communications.
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Cierra Photonics (Aquired by JDS Uniphase)
www.cierraphotonics.com
Cierra Photonics, Inc. is an emerging leader in wafer scale integration technology for fiber optic components.
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CommQuest Technologies (Acquired by IBM)
www.commquest.com
CommQuest Technologies designs, develops, and markets integrated wireless communication chipsets, systems, and related software which provide the core functionality of wireless communication subscriber equipment.
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NVIDIA (IPO - NASDAQ: NVDA)
www.nvidia.com
NVIDIA is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and supplies the highest performing 3D multimedia accelerator chips for mainstream and consumer market PCs.
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Obsidian (Acquired by Applied Materials)
Obsidian develops and markets innovative Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) systems used to manufacture semiconductors. Unlike competing CMP offerings, Obsidian's solution provides greater control over the entire polishing process - dramatically improving the yield, performance, and cost.
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Oplink Communications (IPO - NASDAQ: OPLK)
www.oplink.com
Oplink Communications is a leader in providing next generation, photonic transport and network components for bandwidth creation and management.
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Silicon Spice (Aquired by Broadcom)
www.silicon-spice.com
Silicon Spice is a fabless semiconductor company that develops high performance, high density, and programmable semiconductors for the telecommunications industry.
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C-Cube Microsystems (NASDAQ: CUBE)
www.c-cube.com
C-Cube Microsystems offers both leading edge encoding and decoding chips for communications, consumer and convergence digital video applications.
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Etec Systems (NASDAQ: ETEC)
www.etec.com
Etec Systems is a leader in state-of-the-art pattern-generation equipment for the electronics industry. With both electron-beam and laser-beam technologies, Etec provides total mask-making solutions to serve the pattern-writing strategies of its customers.
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MMC Networks (NASDAQ: MMCN)
www.mmcnetworks.com
MMC Networks is the leading independent supplier of network processor chip sets that provide breakthrough processing for building multi-gigabit wire-speed switches and routers.
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NeoMagic (NASDAQ: NMGC)
www.neomagic.com
NeoMagic is the leading provider of multimedia chips with integrated DRAM and graphic accelerators that speed audio, data, and video processing in personal computers.
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Vivid Semiconductor
www.vividsemi.com
Vivid Semiconductor designs and markets mixed-signal flat-panel LCD driver components.
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