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Open-Silicon, Inc.

ASIC Design services company
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Description

Open-Silicon provides semiconductor solutions to get customer’s products to market. These solutions include traditional ASIC design, derivative and platform SoCs, hardware and software design, and production handoffs where Open-Silicon provides manufacturing operations.
Executive Insight: Taher Madraswala
Open-Silicon’s president sounds off about the challenges of continued innovation, new business models, and why there is renewed interest at established process nodes.


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ACQUISITION:

  • Open-Silicon, Inc. acquired Zenasis Technology in 2007
    • asset purchase
  • Open-Silicon, Inc. acquired Silicon Logic Engineering in 2009
    • Silicon Logic Engineering was spun out of Cray Research in 1996. The team was purchased by Tundra Semiconductor, which was bought by IDT. IDT sold the team to Open-Silicon.