Achronix Semiconductor Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California with an additional R&D facility in Bangalore, India,[2][3] and an additional sales office in Shenzhen, China.[4] Achronix is a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sells FPGA products, embedded FPGA (eFPGA) products, system-level products and supporting design tools. Achronix was founded in 2004 in Ithaca, New York based on technology licensed from Cornell University.[5] In 2006, Achronix moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley.[6][7]
Achronix was originally self-funded by several million dollars of founder's capital. Since 2006, Achronix has been funded by a combination of Venture capital funding, private equity funding and debt from traditional lenders.[8] Since Achronix is a private company, the total amount of capital raised to date has not been disclosed, but the total amount of capital raised is thought to be in the $180M-$200M range. Achronix achieved profitability in 2016 and reportedly achieved sales of over $100M YTD in 2017, making it one of the highest growth semiconductor companies globally.[9]
In July 2021 Achronix cancelled its plans to go public through a merger with a special acquisition (SPAC) company ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp due to regulatory approval difficulties. The proposed transaction valued the company at $2.1bn.[10]
Speedster7t FPGAs - Standalone FPGA devices built on TSMC 7 nm FinFET technology. It includes a 2D Network-on-Chip (NoC), GDDR6 memory interfaces, up to 72 transceivers operating at 1-112 Gbit/s, 400G Ethernet MACs, PCIe Gen5 controllers and up to 1,760 machine learning processors (MLP) for mathematical operations with variable precision number formats.[11]
Speedcore eFPGAs - Embedded FPGA IP that is integrated into a SoC or ASIC device. It consists of customer defined amounts of reconfigurable logic blocks, logic and block RAM, DSP blocks and Machine Learning Process (MLP) blocks.[12] Speedcore is supported in TSMC 16FF+, TSMC 7 nm FinFET and TSMC 12FFC is under development.[13]
VectorPath Accelerator Cards - PCIe card which is based on the Speedster7t FPGA family. This card includes 400G and 200G network interfaces, 8 GDDR6 memories, and additional expansion ports for custom connectivity.[14]
ACE - FPGA development tools which are used to design for all of Achronix's FPGA and eFPGA devices.[15][16]
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Achronix Semiconductor Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara California with an additional R amp D facility in Bangalore India 2 3 and an additional sales office in Shenzhen China 4 Achronix is a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sells FPGA products embedded FPGA eFPGA products system level products and supporting design tools Achronix was founded in 2004 in Ithaca New York based on technology licensed from Cornell University 5 In 2006 Achronix moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley 6 7 Achronix Semiconductor CorporationCompany typePrivateIndustrySemiconductorsFounded2004 20 years ago 2004 in Ithaca New York U S FoundersClinton KellyJohn Lofton HoltVirantha EkanayakeRajit Manohar 1 HeadquartersSanta Clara California United StatesKey peopleRobert Blake CEO Virantha Ekanayake CTO ProductsFPGA eFPGA IPRevenue gt 100M yearNumber of employees lt 200Websitewww wbr achronix wbr com Achronix was originally self funded by several million dollars of founder s capital Since 2006 Achronix has been funded by a combination of Venture capital funding private equity funding and debt from traditional lenders 8 Since Achronix is a private company the total amount of capital raised to date has not been disclosed but the total amount of capital raised is thought to be in the 180M 200M range Achronix achieved profitability in 2016 and reportedly achieved sales of over 100M YTD in 2017 making it one of the highest growth semiconductor companies globally 9 In July 2021 Achronix cancelled its plans to go public through a merger with a special acquisition SPAC company ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp due to regulatory approval difficulties The proposed transaction valued the company at 2 1bn 10 Contents 1 Products 2 References 3 External links 4 See alsoProducts editSpeedster7t FPGAs Standalone FPGA devices built on TSMC 7 nm FinFET technology It includes a 2D Network on Chip NoC GDDR6 memory interfaces up to 72 transceivers operating at 1 112 Gbit s 400G Ethernet MACs PCIe Gen5 controllers and up to 1 760 machine learning processors MLP for mathematical operations with variable precision number formats 11 Speedcore eFPGAs Embedded FPGA IP that is integrated into a SoC or ASIC device It consists of customer defined amounts of reconfigurable logic blocks logic and block RAM DSP blocks and Machine Learning Process MLP blocks 12 Speedcore is supported in TSMC 16FF TSMC 7 nm FinFET and TSMC 12FFC is under development 13 VectorPath Accelerator Cards PCIe card which is based on the Speedster7t FPGA family This card includes 400G and 200G network interfaces 8 GDDR6 memories and additional expansion ports for custom connectivity 14 ACE FPGA development tools which are used to design for all of Achronix s FPGA and eFPGA devices 15 16 References edit Ramaswamy Shankaranarayanan et al 2009 A radiation hardened reconfigurable FPGA PDF 2009 IEEE Aerospace conference pp 9 10 doi 10 1109 AERO 2009 4839506 ISBN 978 1 4244 2621 8 S2CID 11659933 Achronix and Signoff Semiconductors Partner for AI ML FPGA and eFPGA IP Design Services edacafe com Retrieved 2021 12 15 Achronix SPAC Merger 6 Things to Know About the Semiconductor Play Ahead of Any ACE Deal investorplace com 6 January 2021 Retrieved 2021 12 15 Achronix s Speedcore eFPGA Devices to be Highlighted at TSMC 2018 North America China Technology Events in May design reuse com Retrieved 2021 12 15 EE Times updates list of emerging startups eetimes com Retrieved 2021 12 27 Nenni Daniel In Their Own Words Achronix Semiwiki Retrieved 2019 11 26 Achronix Grew 700 Last Year eFPGA is a Thing community cadence com Retrieved 2021 12 27 ACEV And Achronix Offer Fairly Priced Upside To The Red Hot Semi Market seekingalpha com Retrieved 2021 12 27 EFPGA out growing FPGA at Achronix as revenues soar 700 14 June 2017 Achronix press release 12 July 2021 says TotallyLost 2019 05 21 Achronix 7nm Speedster7t FPGAs EEJournal Retrieved 2019 11 26 Achronix Setting the industry standard for performance power and cost leadership thesiliconreview com Retrieved 2021 12 28 Achronix Accelerates eFPGA EEJournal 2018 12 05 Retrieved 2019 11 26 Achronix and BittWare Accelerate Your Socks Off EEJournal 2019 10 31 Retrieved 2019 11 26 ACE Achronix Semiconductor Corp Retrieved 2019 11 26 How to Design SmartNICs Using FPGAs to Increase Server Compute Capacity design reuse com Retrieved 2021 12 28 External links editIntel lets outside chip maker into its fabs Achronix goes all red white and blue The Register 1 November 2010 Exploring the Intel and Achronix Deal David Kanter Real World Tech November 8 2010 22 nm Chips von Intel heben Startup auf FPGA Thron Archived 2020 07 26 at the Wayback Machine Frank Riemenschneider Elektronik Net in German 2012 04 24 Intel s First Factory Customer Touts Made in USA Chips The Wall Street Journal Feb 20 2013 Breaking the Balance Achronix FPGAs Disrupt the Status Quo Kevin Morris EEJournal February 26 2013 My Take on Achronix amp Its Products Paul Dillien All programmable planet 3 11 2013 Alexander Bachmutsky System Design for Telecommunication Gateways chapter 3 5 2 1 Achronix FPGAs See also editAltera Xilinx Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Achronix amp oldid 1220400662, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
