OpenEdge-Semifive Global Expansion... Strengthening Cooperation in the Korean Foundry Ecosystem

Accelerating the Establishment of a New SoC Platform Based on Samsung Foundry's Leading Process
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OpenEdge Technology, a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) platform company, and Semifive, a design platform company, are strengthening their collaboration. Key players nurturing the domestic foundry ecosystem have joined forces to target the global semiconductor market. Both companies are partners of Samsung Electronics Foundry (semiconductor contract manufacturing), and as their cooperative projects expand, the number of Samsung Electronics Foundry customers may increase.

Open Edge Technology exhibition booth at the Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX 2022) held last year / [Photo by Open Edge Technology]

On the 11th, OpenEdge Technology announced that it will strengthen cooperation with Semifive to target future semiconductor markets such as artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors and high-performance computing (HPC).

Semifive is a domestic semiconductor design house (DSP) company that provides platform-based customized silicon solutions. DSP refers to the business area responsible for design optimization, such as converting semiconductor design drawings into foundry (semiconductor contract manufacturing) production drawings.

The two companies plan to accelerate the establishment of new system-on-chip (SoC, a single chip system semiconductor integrating multiple systems on one chip) platforms through Samsung Foundry’s leading-edge processes and speed up their global semiconductor market penetration. This means that as cooperation between the two companies strengthens and their business grows, more fabless (semiconductor design) companies may turn to Samsung Foundry.

Lee Sung-hyun, CEO of OpenEdge, said, "We continue to maintain a cooperative relationship with Semifive by shortening data processing times and minimizing conflicts between IPs to reduce costs," adding, "We will respond quickly to market changes and provide optimal IP at the necessary time to meet customer demands."

Semifive integrated OpenEdge’s memory IP technology into Samsung Electronics’ 14-nanometer (nm; 1 nm = one billionth of a meter) platform, improving memory bandwidth performance by more than 20%. This platform has been successfully applied to numerous AI semiconductor companies, including Puriosa AI.

Additionally, by integrating OpenEdge’s next-generation low-power double data rate (LPDDR) 4 memory controller and PHY IP, they achieved high performance in a small area, creating synergy in power consumption, effective bandwidth, and response speed.

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