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| name = Achronix |
| name = Achronix Semiconductor Corporation |
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| logo = Achronix logo.svg |
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| key_people = Robert Blake (CEO)<br />Virantha Ekanayake (CTO) |
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| key_people = Robert Blake (CEO), Mark Voll (CFO), Virantha Ekanayake (CTO), Chris Pelosi (VP HW Engineering), Kamal Choudhary (Sr. VP SW Engineering), Raymond Nijssen (VP and Chief Technologist), Randy Jurrat (VP of Operations), Steve Mensor (VP Sales and Marketing), Kent Orthner (VP Architecture), Namit Varma (Sr. Dir HW Engineering), Nick Ilyadis (Sr. Dir Planning) |
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| industry = [[Semiconductors]] |
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| products = [[FPGA]], eFPGA IP |
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| revenue = >$100M/year |
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| homepage = {{URL|www.achronix.com}} |
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| foundation = {{Start date and age|2004}} in [[Ithaca, New York]], U.S. |
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| founders = {{ubl|Clinton Kelly|John Lofton Holt|Virantha Ekanayake|Rajit Manohar<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ramaswamy |first1=Shankaranarayanan |last2=Rockett |first2=Leonard |title=2009 IEEE Aerospace conference |chapter=A radiation hardened reconfigurable FPGA |display-authors=1 |date=2009 |chapter-url=https://csl.yale.edu/~rajit/ps/rhfpga.pdf |pages=9–10 |doi=10.1109/AERO.2009.4839506 |isbn=978-1-4244-2621-8 |s2cid=11659933 }}</ref>}} |
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| location_city = [[Santa Clara, California]] |
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'''Achronix Semiconductor''' is an American fabless semiconductor company based in [[Santa Clara, California]] with an additional R&D facility in [[Bangalore|Bangalore, India]], and an additional sales office in [[Shenzhen|Shenzhen, China]]. Achronix is a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sells [[Field-programmable gate array|FPGA]] products, embedded [[Field-programmable gate array|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]]. In 2006, Achronix moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://semiwiki.com/efpga/273494-in-their-own-words-achronix/|title=In Their Own Words: Achronix|last=Nenni|first=Daniel|website=Semiwiki|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref> |
'''Achronix Semiconductor Corporation''' is an American fabless semiconductor company based in [[Santa Clara, California]] with an additional R&D facility in [[Bangalore|Bangalore, India]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Achronix and Signoff Semiconductors Partner for AI/ML FPGA and eFPGA IP Design Services|url=https://www.edacafe.com/nbc/articles/1/1862070/Achronix-Signoff-Semiconductors-Partner-AI-ML-FPGA-eFPGA-IP-Design-Services |website=edacafe.com|access-date=2021-12-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Achronix SPAC Merger? 6 Things to Know About the Semiconductor Play Ahead of Any ACE Deal |url=https://investorplace.com/2021/01/achronix-spac-merger-6-things-to-know-about-the-semiconductor-play-ahead-of-any-ace-deal/ |website=investorplace.com|date=6 January 2021 |access-date=2021-12-15}}</ref> and an additional sales office in [[Shenzhen|Shenzhen, China]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Achronix's Speedcore eFPGA Devices to be Highlighted at TSMC 2018 North America, China Technology Events in May |url=https://www.design-reuse.com/news/43963/achronix-speedcore-efpga-tsmc-2018-north-america.html |website=design-reuse.com|access-date=2021-12-15}}</ref> Achronix is a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sells [[Field-programmable gate array|FPGA]] products, embedded [[Field-programmable gate array|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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=EE Times updates list of emerging startups|url=https://www.eetimes.com/ee-times-updates-list-of-emerging-startups-3/ |website=eetimes.com|access-date=2021-12-27}}</ref> In 2006, Achronix moved its headquarters to [[Silicon Valley]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://semiwiki.com/efpga/273494-in-their-own-words-achronix/|title=In Their Own Words: Achronix|last=Nenni|first=Daniel|website=Semiwiki|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Achronix Grew 700% Last Year...eFPGA is a Thing|url=https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes/posts/achronix|website=community.cadence.com|access-date=2021-12-27}}</ref> |
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Achronix was originally self-funded by several million dollars of founder's capital. Since 2006, Achronix has been funded by a combination of |
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.<ref>{{cite web|title=ACEV And Achronix Offer Fairly Priced Upside To The Red Hot Semi Market |url=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4415817-acev-and-achronix-offer-exposure-to-high-growth-efpga-story |website=seekingalpha.com|access-date=2021-12-27}}</ref> |
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In July 2021 Achronix cancelled its plans to go public through a merger with a special acquisition ([[Special-purpose acquisition company|SPAC]]) company ACE Convergence Acquisition Corp due to regulatory approval difficulties. The proposed transaction valued the company at $2.1bn.<ref>[https://www.achronix.com/press-releases/achronix-and-ace-convergence-acquisition-corp-mutually-agree-terminate-merger Achronix press release, 12 July 2021]</ref> |
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'''Product Offerings''' |
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== Products == |
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* '''[https://www.achronix.com/product/speedster7t/ 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- |
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| ⚫ | * '''[https://www.achronix.com/product/speedcore/ 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. Speedcore is supported in TSMC 16FF+, TSMC 7 nm FinFET and TSMC 12FFC is under development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eejournal.com/article/achronix-acceleratres-efpga/|title=Achronix Accelerates eFPGA|date=2018-12-05|website=EEJournal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref> |
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* '''[https://www.achronix.com/vectorpath/ VectorPath Accelerator Cards]''' - PCIe card which is based on the Speedster7t FPGA family. |
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| ⚫ | * '''ACE''' - FPGA development tools which are used to design for all of Achronix's FPGA and eFPGA devices.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.achronix.com/product/ace/|title=ACE|website=Achronix Semiconductor Corp|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | * '''[https://www.achronix.com/product/speedster7t/ 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eejournal.com/article/acrhonix-7nm-speedster7t-fpgas/|title=Achronix 7nm Speedster7t FPGAs|last=says|first=TotallyLost|date=2019-05-21|website=EEJournal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref> |
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== Awards and recognition == |
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| ⚫ | * '''[https://www.achronix.com/product/speedcore/ 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.{{cn|date=June 2024}} Speedcore is supported in TSMC 16FF+, TSMC 7 nm FinFET and TSMC 12FFC is under development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eejournal.com/article/achronix-acceleratres-efpga/|title=Achronix Accelerates eFPGA|date=2018-12-05|website=EEJournal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref> |
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In August 2018, Achronix was recognized by ''CIOReview Magazine'' as one of 20 of the 2018 Most Promising High-Performance Compute Solution Providers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://high-performance-computing.cioreview.com/vendors/top-hpc-companies-2018.html|title=Top 20 HPC Companies - 20 18|website=high-performance-computing.cioreview.com|access-date=2020-03-19}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | * '''[https://www.achronix.com/vectorpath/ 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eejournal.com/article/achronix-and-bittware-accelerate-your-socks-off/|title=Achronix and BittWare Accelerate Your Socks Off!|date=2019-10-31|website=EEJournal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | * '''ACE''' - FPGA development tools which are used to design for all of Achronix's FPGA and eFPGA devices.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.achronix.com/product/ace/|title=ACE|website=Achronix Semiconductor Corp|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=How to Design SmartNICs Using FPGAs to Increase Server Compute Capacity|url=https://www.design-reuse.com/articles/46833/how-to-design-smartnics-using-fpgas-to-increase-server-compute-capacity.html|website=design-reuse.com|access-date=2021-12-28}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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== External links == |
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* [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/intel_achronix_fab_deal/ Intel lets outside chip maker into its fabs. Achronix goes all red, white, and blue] // The Register, |
* [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/intel_achronix_fab_deal/ Intel lets outside chip maker into its fabs. Achronix goes all red, white, and blue] // The Register, 1 November 2010 |
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* [http://www.realworldtech.com/achronix/ Exploring the Intel and Achronix Deal] // David Kanter, Real World Tech, November 8, 2010 |
* [http://www.realworldtech.com/achronix/ Exploring the Intel and Achronix Deal] // David Kanter, Real World Tech, November 8, 2010 |
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* [http://www.elektroniknet.de/halbleiter/sonstiges/artikel/87670/ 22-nm-Chips von Intel heben Startup auf FPGA-Thron] // Frank Riemenschneider, Elektronik Net, {{in lang|de}}, 2012-04-24 |
* [http://www.elektroniknet.de/halbleiter/sonstiges/artikel/87670/ 22-nm-Chips von Intel heben Startup auf FPGA-Thron] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726171148/https://www.elektroniknet.de/halbleiter/sonstiges/artikel/87670/ |date=2020-07-26 }} // Frank Riemenschneider, Elektronik Net, {{in lang|de}}, 2012-04-24 |
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* [https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/02/20/intels-first-factory-customer-touts-made-in-usa-chips/ Intel’s First Factory Customer Touts Made-in-USA Chips] // The Wall Street Journal, Feb 20, 2013 |
* [https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/02/20/intels-first-factory-customer-touts-made-in-usa-chips/ Intel’s First Factory Customer Touts Made-in-USA Chips] // The Wall Street Journal, Feb 20, 2013 |
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* [http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20130226-achronix Breaking the Balance. Achronix FPGAs Disrupt the Status Quo] // Kevin Morris, EEJournal, February 26, 2013 |
* [http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20130226-achronix Breaking the Balance. Achronix FPGAs Disrupt the Status Quo] // Kevin Morris, EEJournal, February 26, 2013 |
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2004; 20 years ago (2004)inIthaca, New York, U.S. |
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Key people | Robert Blake (CEO) Virantha Ekanayake (CTO) |
| Products | FPGA, eFPGA IP |
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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]
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.[9]
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