Zen Semiconductor

Chip and system companies face long, costly silicon programs when they need differentiated hardware. Zen Semiconductor answers with an AI-accelerated development platform that designs, verifies, and prepares silicon quickly, paired with a pre-integrated library of licensable blocks spanning RISC-V cores, interconnect fabric, accelerators, and peripherals. Customers engage through custom-silicon programs or platform licenses to suit their program.

Unlike discrete-block vendors such as Arm, SiFive, Andes, Tensilica, and ARC licensors or EDA tool providers like Synopsys and Cadence, Zen bundles the design and verification platform with the IP library itself. Customers receive full, perpetual ownership of the resulting silicon IP with their data kept on their own infrastructure and no lock-in. Its thesis is that one firm can both sell finished silicon and license the platform that produces it.