Semiconductor startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Partcl

San Francisco

Partcl develops the next generation of chip design automation tools powered by GPUs and AI, claiming its tools are 1000x faster than legacy options.

Silimate

Mountain View

Silimate positions itself as the copilot for chip designers, offering a chip design copilot to assist in the design process and to help find and fix functional and PPA issues, claiming it can shave months from tapeout schedules.

Conductor Quantum

San Francisco

Conductor Quantum, based in San Francisco, develops software to enable fault-tolerant quantum computation. A small team of quantum physicists, hardware engineers, and machine learning experts envisions scalable operation of thousands to bil