Semiconductor IP Licensing companies
26 companies in the Semiconductor IP Licensing part of the semiconductor & AI value chain.
Companies
- Arm Holdings — CPU architecture licensed in virtually every smartphone and most edge devices.
- Cadence Design Systems — EDA duopolist with Synopsys; strong in analog, PCB and verification.
- Synopsys — Largest EDA vendor and major interface IP supplier; acquired Ansys in 2025.
- eMemory Technology — Leading embedded non-volatile memory IP licensor.
- Adeia Inc. — Pure-play IP licensor holding foundational DBI hybrid-bonding patents key to HBM stacking and 3D chiplets.
- Rambus — Memory interface chips and high-speed interface IP.
- Faraday Technology — Taiwanese ASIC design-service and silicon IP provider.
- Alphawave Semi — High-speed connectivity SerDes IP; acquired by Qualcomm and delisted from LSE in December 2025, now a Qualcomm subsidiary.
- Silvaco Group, Inc. — EDA software (TCAD, SPICE, extraction) and semiconductor IP for power, display, memory and automotive.
- Achronix — Fabless FPGA and embedded-FPGA (eFPGA) IP supplier.
- SiFive — Leading commercial RISC-V CPU IP company.
- StarFive — Chinese RISC-V CPU IP and SoC company.
- Tenstorrent — AI accelerator and RISC-V IP company led by Jim Keller.
- VeriSilicon — Chinese IP licensing and turnkey chip design services company.
- Arteris — Network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP for SoC designs.
- Ceva — Licenses DSP, wireless connectivity and edge AI IP cores.
- M31 Technology — Taiwanese silicon IP licensor of foundation and interface IP.
- Andes Technology — Taiwanese RISC-V CPU IP vendor.
- QuickLogic — Low-power FPGA and embedded-FPGA IP company.
- Atomera — Materials-engineering technology (MST) licensed to chipmakers.
- Agile Analog — Configurable analog IP for system-on-chips.
- Codasip — European RISC-V processor IP company.
- Flex Logix — Embedded-FPGA IP and AI inference acceleration technology.
- Imagination Technologies — GPU and AI IP licensor, owned by Canyon Bridge.
- OpenLight Photonics, Inc. — Silicon photonics IP company licensing integrated laser-on-silicon PDKs for AI datacenter interconnects.
- Semidynamics — Customizable RISC-V cores with vector and AI extensions.
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