Efabless Empowers 40 Commercial Companies to Design Chips
June 24 2024 - 11:00AM
Efabless Corporation, the creator platform for chips, is excited to
announce that it has enabled 40 new companies to design chips.
While governments worldwide are investing billions of dollars in
production capacity, the semiconductor industry faces
consolidation. Simultaneously, there is a rapidly growing demand
for new designs to meet the surge of applications driven by secure,
energy optimized, machine learning applications.
Efabless is addressing this design gap by making chip design
affordable, simple, and accessible. It provides a capital efficient
path for new semiconductor companies and enables product companies
to create chips that go into smarter and better products. Efabless
broadens the community of potential chip designers by 100x,
fostering innovation, research, and development in new applications
for semiconductors.
By democratizing access to chip design and manufacturing,
Efabless is driving the creation of new industries and verticals
that will shape the future of technology and innovation. From
agriculture, industrial, infrastructure, smart home appliances to
quantum computing, aerospace, security, autonomous vehicles, and
medical devices, Efabless is enabling entrepreneurs and innovators
to develop cutting-edge technologies that are transforming
industries and improving lives. How Efabless Makes It
Possible:
Efabless brings software-style open-source and community models
to chip creation, fostering a vibrant community of designers and
engineers who collaborate, share designs and IP, and support one
another. Efabless provides a comprehensive, user-friendly platform
that simplifies the entire chip design and manufacturing
process.
- Marketplace: The platform includes an extensive marketplace of
reusable IP blocks and reference designs allowing designers to
quickly assemble and customize their chip designs.
- Access to Design Tools: Efabless provides design tools, code,
and verification examples accessible through its platform,
eliminating the need to develop from scratch.
- Supply Chain: Once a design is finalized, Efabless manages the
supply chain for fabrication, assembly and testing processes,
leveraging its partnerships with leading vendors to ensure
high-quality production.
- Cost Efficiency: By streamlining the design-to-manufacturing
pipeline, Efabless significantly reduces the cost and time required
to bring a custom chip to market, making it accessible to startups
and small companies.
Recent customers utilizing Efabless's platform include companies
in sensor applications, IoT and industrial controllers, and
security, all developing innovative solutions for various
applications. Additionally, as part of research projects, chips for
AI and medical devices are being created.
"Efabless chipIgnite has been an invaluable tool for broadening
participation in chip design. The open-source foundation provides a
transparent and accessible platform for users with varying levels
of experience, allowing them to delve deeper into the core concepts
and focus on design creativity and innovation. chipIgnite will
continue to play a critical role in a mature ecosystem that needs
new impulses for nurturing the next generation of chip designers,"
said Boris Murmann. Professor, University of Hawaii and Chair, IEEE
SSCS Technical Committee on the Open-Source Ecosystem.“With the
chip industry consolidating, we are excited to reverse the trend by
enabling the next generation of chip creators,” said Mike Wishart,
CEO of Efabless. “This includes new startups achieving proof of
concept to raise funds and secure initial customers, as well as
product companies designing chips for new applications. Our
platform lowers the threshold for new initiatives, empowering
entrepreneurs to create their own chips, start businesses, and
generate economic value.”
About EfablessEfabless offers a platform
applying open source and community models to enable a global
community of chip experts and non-experts to collaboratively
design, share, prototype and commercialize special purpose chips.
Over the past three years, 1,400 designs and six hundred tapeouts
have been executed on Efabless. The company’s customers include
startups, Fortune 500 companies, universities, and research
institutions around the world. For more information, please visit
www.efabless.com.
Press Contact:
Andrea Vedanayagamandrea@efabless.com408.656.4494