Achronix Semiconductor Corporation |
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
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| Founded | 2004; 22 years ago (2004) inIthaca, New York, U.S. |
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| Founders | - Clinton Kelly
- John Lofton Holt
- Virantha Ekanayake
- Rajit Manohar[1]
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| Headquarters | , |
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Key people | Robert Blake (CEO)
Virantha Ekanayake (CTO) |
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| Products | FPGA, eFPGA IP |
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| Website | achronix.com |
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Achronix Semiconductor Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company based inSanta Clara, California with an additional R&D facility inBangalore, India,[2][3] and an additional sales office inShenzhen, China.[4] Achronix is a diversified fabless semiconductor company that sellsFPGA products, embeddedFPGA (eFPGA) products, system-level products and supporting design tools. Achronix was founded in 2004 inIthaca, New York based on technology licensed fromCornell University.[5] In 2006, Achronix moved its headquarters toSilicon 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 ofventure 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]
- Speedster7t FPGAs - Standalone FPGA devices built onTSMC 7 nmFinFET 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.[10]
- 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.[citation needed] Speedcore is supported in TSMC 16FF+, TSMC 7 nm FinFET and TSMC 12FFC is under development.[11]
- 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.[12]
- ACE - FPGA development tools which are used to design for all of Achronix's FPGA and eFPGA devices.[13][14]
- "Intel 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 theWayback 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 & Its Products", Paul Dillien, All programmable planet, 3/11/2013
- Alexander Bachmutsky,System Design for Telecommunication Gateways, chapter "3.5.2.1 Achronix FPGAs"
