Semiconductor startups

DisplayLink (formerly Newnham Technology and Newnham Research) is a fabless network display semiconductor company, formed in 2003, to lead the second display revolution by enabling flexible connectivity between computers and displays using standard wired and wireless networking protocols. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with main R&D and product development activities in Cambridge, UK.

Concurrent trends in the semiconductor industry toward increasingly complex film stacks, ever-thinner layers, the need for better process control and the desire to manufacture in smaller lot sizes are putting pressure on legacy wafer-handling equipment to meet today's nano-manufacturing requirements. BlueShift™ Technologies offers a new approach to semiconductor manufacturing-replacing legacy vacuum cluster-tool designs first introduced in the 1980s.

SiPort is a fabless semiconductor company, incorporated in 2004, that received its first round of funding in 2005. By offering highest reception performance at a reasonable cost using its innovative architecture and technology, SiPort is developing market leading silicon solutions to receive digital multimedia broadcast for the mobile market Consumer demand for mobile access to their emails, favorite website, and now music and video, has been amply demonstrated by the run away success of MP3 and streaming video. SiPort’s target customers include leading OEMs selling MP3, cell phones and other portable media players.

Peregrine Semiconductor is a global leader of high-performance RF CMOS solutions. Our patented UltraCMOS™ process technology – enabled by silicon on sapphire substrates – drives unprecedented levels of monolithic integration throughout a broad portfolio of mixed-signal RF ICs. It’s a revolutionary combination of performance and innovation that will change the way you design RF. Forever.

Amalfi Semiconductor is a fabless developer of high-performance CMOS RF and mixed-signal semiconductors for the cellular industry. Based in Los Gatos California, the company was founded in January 2003 by an experienced business and engineering team to solve some of the most challenging problems associated with wireless communications.

Aegis Lightwave is a privately held company that builds cost-effective solutions for intelligent optical networks. Aegis is the first company to deliver low-cost wavelength-monitoring components and modules that are easily manufactured using proven methods from the semiconductor industry. The company is the first in the industry to commercialize tunable thin-film filters and has filed more than 30 patents on the Active Thin Films™ technology platform and its applications.