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Espressif Systems was founded in Shanghai in 2008 as a fabless semiconductor company focused on low-power wireless connectivity and embedded computing. By 2026, Espressif designed Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other IoT-oriented systems-on-chip, supported by its ESP-IDF software framework and developer ecosystem.
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Valens Semiconductor was incorporated in Israel in October 2006 and developed high-speed connectivity technology for audio-video and data transmission. The company was instrumental in HDBaseT technology and later expanded its semiconductor portfolio toward automotive, industrial and machine-vision connectivity. It entered US public markets through a 2021 business combination.
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Sequans Communications was incorporated in France in October 2003 and built a fabless semiconductor business around wireless broadband and cellular connectivity. The company moved through WiMAX, LTE and later LTE-M, NB-IoT and 5G-related connectivity, serving module makers and device manufacturers with chips and design services.
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Nano Labs’ operating business began through Zhejiang Haowei in July 2019, developing computing solutions and semiconductor-related technology. Nano Labs Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in January 2021 as the holding company, and its American depositary shares began trading on Nasdaq in July 2022.
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Silergy was founded in 2008 as a semiconductor company specialising in analogue and power-management integrated circuits. By 2026, Silergy supplied power-management and analogue chips for consumer, computing, industrial and communications equipment.
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Formosa Sumco Technology was established in Taiwan in November 1995 as Formosa Komatsu Silicon, a joint venture involving Formosa Plastics interests and Japan’s Komatsu Electronic Metals. By 2026, FST remained a producer of 200 mm and 300 mm silicon wafers used as the starting material for semiconductor manufacturing.
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Magnachip was created in 2004 when Hynix sold its non-memory semiconductor operations to an investor group. The independent company concentrated on analogue and mixed-signal products, display-driver chips and power semiconductors while its ownership and manufacturing footprint evolved over time.
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Riber was created in France in 1964 and initially developed expertise in ultra-high-vacuum technology. Its move into molecular beam epitaxy began in the 1970s, and by 1978 it had introduced an early turnkey MBE system. It later developed research and production equipment used to grow compound-semiconductor structures.
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Kalray was founded in 2008 as a spin-off from France’s CEA research organisation to commercialise massively parallel processor technology. The company developed MPPA and DPU architectures for data-intensive computing, listed on Euronext Growth in 2018 and broadened from embedded processing toward data-centre, networking and storage applications.
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BrainChip’s technology lineage includes neuromorphic work by Peter van der Made in the 2000s, which later contributed to the company’s Akida architecture. The Australian-listed company developed event-based and neuromorphic processing technology aimed at running AI locally with low power consumption rather than sending every workload to the cloud.
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