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Ceva Licensees

Ceva is deeply embedded in the Smart Edge ecosystem, working with leading semiconductor companies who provide the critical silicon that enable connected AI-enriched capabilities, and with top OEMs who develop advanced systems and devices. We create and license innovative silicon and software technologies that help our customers transform great ideas into extraordinary products.
Here are some of our publicly announced licensees.

Alif Semiconductor

Alif Semiconductor was founded with the vision to address the rapidly growing market need for scalable and secure AI-enabled 32-bit microcontrollers that are genuinely power efficient.

Actions Semiconductor

Actions devotes its resources to developing SoCs for low power wireless communication, multimedia processing and other IoT technology. Over the years Actions’ has developed a portfolio of IP involving Bluetooth communication, ADC/DAC, power consumption management, high-speed analog interface, and audio processing.

AmbiQ

Ambiq is at the forefront of enabling ambient intelligence on billions of devices with the unique SPOT platform and extreme-low power semiconductor solutions

AIC Semiconductor

AIC is an OSAT company providing turnkey solution for global customer.

ASPEED

As a pioneer and leader of cutting-edge SoC solutions with a focus on the niche markets, ASPEED specializes in Cloud & Enterprise Solutions, including Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) SoC, Bridge IC, and PFR SoC, and Smart AV Solutions, including AVoIP SoC, Cupola360 spherical image stitching processor and Cupola360+ Software Kit.

Atmosic

Atmosic team is re-architecting wireless connectivity solutions from the ground up to radically reduce IoT device dependence on batteries.

Advanced Bionics

Advanced Bionics develops cutting-edge cochlear implant technology that helps children and adults hear again, or for the first time.

Altek

Altek strived to achieve excellence in the R&D and manufacture of digital camera. At one point, Altek Corporation became one of the world’s top DSC ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) of the world. In the recent years, Altek expanded into the smartphone imaging, medical Imaging, Autotronics Imaging, and other new businesses. In 2013, Altek successfully entered the smartphone’s market and provided imaging solutions (Single camera module, Dual camera module, Altek Image Signal Processor(ISP) and software) and higher profits for major smartphone providers.

Artosyn

Artosyn Microelectronics, a leading provider of AI SoCs for drones and other sophisticated applications finds itself at the intersection of hardware architecture and software development.

ASR Microelectronics

ASR is engaged in wireless communications and manufacturing of semiconductor products. Since its establishment, the company has been focusing on R&D and technological innovation of wireless chips.

Autotalks

Autotalks is a fabless semiconductor company devoted to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications for manned and autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2008, the company is privately held with strong financial backing from leading global venture capital funds, OEMs and Tier1s.

Beken

Beken Corporation (SSE: 603038), founded in 2005 by returnees from famous Silicon Valley IC companies, is the leading domestic IC provider of wireless connectivity chips in IoT, consumer electronics and industrial applications. Headquartered in Zhangjiang, Shanghai.

Bestechnic

Founded in 2015, Bestechnic specializes in the development of wireless ultra-low power computing SoCs for the advanced smart audio, smart wearables, wireless connectivity and smart home markets. Our engineering teams are dedicated to R&D work in a wide range of areas, including RF and analog, wireless communication, acoustic and audio signal processing, image and vision signal processing, NPU, ultra-low power computing SoC, as well as complete software stack and complex operating system. As a leading technology and SoC supplier, our products have been adopted by leading brands worldwide.

boAt Lifestyle

boAt set its sail back in 2016. Both our founders, Aman Gupta and Sameer Mehta, realized the massive gaps in the audio and wearable market of India and hence founded boAt with the vision of making a lifestyle brand, that enhances the quality of life through audio and wearables. Today, boAt is the world's 2nd largest wearable brand (IDC Q3 2022) along with being India’s No.1 Audio brand. Seven years down the road, boAt has become a crucial part of cultural conversations for the younger generation, lifestyle influencers, audiophiles, and a lot of many segments. boAt has hence become an advocate of self-expression, adventurous experiences, and exploration all the way. Driven by a blazing passion for music and an instinct for innovation, boAt intends to deliver more than just a product to its community. This account is a sneak peek into the feisty world of boAt - its showrunners, hustle, collaborations, #InsideboAt culture, and beyond.

Broadcom

Broadcom is focused on technology leadership and category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. The company is a global leader in numerous product segments serving the world’s most successful companies.

Ceragon

Ceragon is the global innovator and leading solutions provider of end-to-end wireless connectivity, specializing in transport, access, and AI-powered managed & professional services.

Cirrus Logic

Cirrus Logic is a leading supplier of low-power, high-precision mixed-signal processing solutions for mobile and consumer applications.

Espressif Systems

Espressif deliver innovative AIoT solutions to democratize development of connected products, IoT and AI/ML-on-the-edge products

ESWIN

ESWIN Technology Group is a semiconductor products and services supplier, with its core businesses in IC and Solutions, Silicon Materials, Advanced Packaging and Testing.

FujiFilm

FujiFilm is a Best-in-world class technical capabilities cultivated through research and development of silver halide photographs

Fujitsu

Fujitsu using a wide portfolio of trusted technology services, solutions and products, They work with customers to co-create solutions that help on their journey to enterprise-wide digitalization.

GCT Semiconductor

GCT Semiconductor is a leading fabless designer and supplier of advanced 4G LTE and 5G semiconductor solutions

iCatch

iCatch provide comprehensive customized ASIC design services from concept to implementation, delivering high performance and low power solutions.

Goodix

Goodix Technology is an integrated solution provider for applications based on IC design and software development. The company provide industry-leading software and hardware semiconductor solutions for smart devices, IoT applications, and automotive electronics.

Icom

Icom Inc. is a manufacturer of wireless communication products. Since Icom's establishment in 1964, the company have had a long record as a trusted manufacturer of land mobile radio, amateur radio, marine radio, navigation products, aviation radio and communications receivers.

InPlay Technologies

InPlay technology addresses major shortcomings in low-latency, edge networking, and active Beacon, enabling to build IIoT solutions that meet many of today's diverse requirements and challenges.

Intel

Inuitive

Inuitive designs powerful multi core processor ICs that serve as the vision processor for Smartphones, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality devices as well as Robots, to name a few of
the applications that benefit from its technology.

Itron

Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water.

iRobot

iRobot, the leading global consumer robot company, designs and builds robots that empower people to do more both inside and outside of the home.

Leadcore Technology

Leadcore Technology is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company that provides system-on-chip solutions for smartphones and tablets

LG Electronics

LG is leading the telecommunications market with the world's first 5G commercialization and export of 5G content represented by AR/VR.

LifeSignals

Making Untethered Health Care Accessible Everywhere

ListenAI

Lingsi Technology is a high-tech enterprise focusing on providing smart terminal system-level (SoC) chips. Its products can be widely used in home appliances, education and office, consumer electronics, smart cars and other fields. Since its establishment, the company has been committed to deeply coupling the world's cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms with independent leading chip designs to create extremely cost-effective single-chip solutions and promote the true arrival of the era of intelligent connection of all things.

MediaTek

MediaTek is a global fabless semiconductor company. A market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products.

Microchip

Microchip Technology is a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control and processing solutions.

Morningcore Technology

Morningcore Holding Co., Ltd. is a professional integrated circuit design corporation, mainly focusing on the research, design and sales of wireless communication SoC chip and module products

Nextchip

Nextchip is a leading provider of automotive semiconductor and vision technologies, specializing in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Image Signal Processor (ISP).

Nations

Nations Technologies Inc. is a leader in China’s information security IC design industry and a national high-tech enterprise

Nokia

Nokia is a B2B technology innovation leader in networking, bringing together the world's people, machines and devices to realize the potential of digital in every industry.

Novatek

Novatek Microelelctonics is a leading fabless chip design company

Nordic

Nordic Semiconductor is a Norwegian fabless semiconductor company specializing in wireless communication technology that powers the Internet of Things (IoT).

Nurlink

Nurlink Technology is a fabless IC design company. Leveraging its world-class talents in RF analog, modem, GNSS, and SoC systems and software, Nurlink Technology commits to creating the best RF/SoC chips for powering the next-generation cellular IoT wireless communications, i.e. mMTC, while enabling significant cost and performance advantages for customers.

ON Semiconductor

ON Semiconductor is driving energy efficient innovations, empowering customers to reduce global energy use. The company is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based solutions, offering a comprehensive portfolio of energy efficient power management, analog, sensors, logic, timing, connectivity, discrete, SoC and custom devices.

Oticon

Oticon's purpose is to push the limits of hearing care technology and create a world where hearing loss is no limitation.

Optek

Optek is an innovative fabless semiconductor company. With highly integration architecture, outstanding system integration capability and own IP of Bluetooth stacks and profiles, the company provides customers cost-effective and excellent silicon and solutions to meet market needs.

Oritek

Provider of system-on-chip SoCs designed for third-generation E/E architecture of smart cars. The company offers smart car chips and solutions for automakers, which include chip requirements for smart car end-side smart components, smart regional processors, and integrated computing units, enabling automobile industry users to reduce costs and time to develop new products and features.

NXP

NXP® Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has 31,000 employees in more than 33 countries and posted revenue of $9.5 billion in 2016.

Picocom

Picocom is a semiconductor company that designs and markets Open RAN standard-compliant baseband SoCs and carrier-grade software products for 4G and 5G small cell infrastructure.

PimCHIP

Pimchip Technology is a pioneering company of processing-in-memory (PIM) technology bringing a vision that the universe can be better perceived by AI computing. The PIM technology, combining processors and data storage, revolutionizes the computing architecture paradigms by breaking through the inherent limitations of traditional chip architecture (Von Neumann), known as “memory wall” problem, and hence enables high-performance AI computing engines at low cost.

Ramon Space

“The underlying processor technologies in satellites have remained mostly unchanged for nearly two decades, resulting in poor performance for today’s processing-intensive applications…Our new RC64 processor based on the CEVA-X1643 DSP promises to change this, bringing outstanding performance, programmability and scalability to next-generation satellite systems, and enabling the massively parallel processing required for many of the latest satellite communications, research and observation applications.”

RDA Microelectronics

“CEVA’s Bluetooth baseband and protocol stack IP provides us with a feature-rich, low power architecture which we were easily able to enhance and integrate with our leading-edge RF and transceiver technologies to deliver a highly-competitive single-chip Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR offering…CEVA’s reputation as a world class IP provider is well deserved.”

ROHM

“The silicon performance of our Bluetooth 2.0+EDR Radio along with the CEVA-Bluetooth IP at the recent UnPlugFest revealed a very competitive combined Bluetooth solution…We are delighted to further co-operate with CEVA in creating this platform and address the strong demand for a complete Bluetooth 2.0+EDR reference design from our customers.”

Rockchip

Rockchip is China’s leading fabless semiconductor company and has been honored with China Chip Awards for 10 times. Since its establishment, Rockchip is committed to providing technical innovation and prompt support to fuel successful growth for our customers.

Rohde & Schwarz

Rohde & Schwarz is striving for a safer and connected world with its Test & Measurement, Technology Systems and Networks & Cybersecurity Divisions. For over 90 years, the global technology group has pushed technical boundaries with developments in cutting-edge technologies. The company’s leading-edge products and solutions empower industrial, regulatory and government customers to attain technological and digital sovereignty.

Samsung

“By leveraging CEVA’s DSP technology in our LTE modem design, we ensure ultra-low power consumption, critical to the successful adoption of LTE in these battery-powered devices”

SaneChips

SatixFy

"The CEVA-XC DSP delivers outstanding performance and flexibility required to power our multi-standard broadband satellite SoC,"

Yoel Gat, CEO of SatixFy.

Shanghai Frequen

Shanghai Frequen (Freqchip) is located in Shanghai, China Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. Our company is focused on the analog, RF and low-power wireless connection technology at the core of integrated circuits for consumer electronic products. We are a customer-orientated company with a rich experience in research and development, mass production and rapid response to market needs. Our first generation Bluetooth audio SoC family, FR301x is widely adopted in Bluetooth earphones and wireless music boxes. Now Freqchip is releasing our true BLE SoC, the FR801x series based on CEVA's RivieraWaves platform. This will be widely used in wearable devices, smart controllers, smart medical detectors, secure payment equipment and other low power IoT devices. Next, Freqchip will release our new dual mode Bluetooth SoC, also based on CEVA's RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP. A highly professional organization, Freqchip always strives to be the leading provider of wireless and audio relevant applications.

Sequans

"CEVA's PentaG modem IP provides us with a powerful DSP along with a comprehensive set of hardware and software technologies that shorten the design cycle for our upcoming 5G platform and ensure we deliver the industry-leading performance and efficiencies which our customers demand." Bertrand Debray, EVP and GM, Broadband IoT, Sequans.

Shanghai InfoTM Microelectronics

“Following a detailed selection process, the CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP proved to be the lowest-power choice for high-performance audio processing required for next-generation application processors…The low power capabilities combined with CEVA’s comprehensive audio software offerings and excellent technical support provides us with a complete, end-to-end audio solution for our next-generation application processors.”

Sharp

Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corporation (SSIC) is developing IoT SoC design technology that can be applied to various applications, accommodating future specification changes in the B5G era.

SiFlower

SiFive

"Enabling future-proof, technology-leading processor designs is a key step in SiFive's mission to unlock technology roadmaps," said Dr. Naveed Sherwani, president and CEO, SiFive. "The rapid evolution of AI models combined with the requirements for low power, low latency, and high-performance demand a flexible and scalable approach to IP and SoC design that our joint CEVA / SiFive portfolio is superbly positioned to provide. The result is shorter time-to-market, while lowering the entry barriers for device manufacturers to create powerful, differentiated products."

SigmaStar

"CEVA's computer vision and neural network platform is key to our SoC, allowing us and our customers to simply and efficiently deploy high-performance computer vision algorithms and neural networks on the edge device, without requiring a connection to the cloud."

SMIC

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in mainland China. SMIC provides integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology services at 0.35-micron to 40-nanometer and has begun offering advanced 28nm process technology. Headquartered in Shanghai, China, SMIC has a 300mm wafer fabrication facility (fab) and a 200mm mega-fab in Shanghai, a 300mm mega-fab in Beijing, a 200mm fab inTianjin, and a 200mm fab project under development in Shenzhen. SMIC also has customer service and marketing offices in the U.S.,Europe, Japan, and Taiwan, and a representative office in Hong Kong.

Socionext

Socionext Inc., a leading global System-on-Chip (SoC) supplier, is a pioneer of the ‘Solution SoC’ business model. This innovative approach encompasses Socionext’s ‘Entire Design’ capabilities and offering of ‘Complete Service’. As a trusted silicon partner, Socionext fuels global innovation, providing superior features, performance, and quality that set its customers’ products and services apart in diverse domains ranging from automotive and data centers to networking, smart devices, and industrial equipment.

Solomon Systech

“The ability to encode and decode video and audio on a single DSP engine supporting multiple multimedia codec standards in software enables our MagusCore™ processor platform to reduce design costs while addressing a wide range of end markets”

Sonova

“Our latest generation SWORD™ chip reinforces our mission to continually introduce new and innovative technologies that greatly improve the user experience of hearing aids. The integration of CEVA’s advanced Bluetooth Dual Mode IP into our wireless chip enables us to bring low power stereo audio streaming and data connectivity to our hearing aids, giving our customers an unparalleled user experience,”

Sony

Sony is a licensee of CEVA DSP technology

SRT Group

“Robust and dependable signal processing IP blocks are a critical component of our next-generation products…CEVA’s product offerings meet the most stringent performance and reliability metrics we require, in addition to providing outstanding technical support for their IP.”

STMicroelectronics

“The very small footprint and high performance of the CEVA-TeakLite® DSP made it the optimum choice for DSL applications where lowest-cost per channel is key”

Sunplus mMedia

“Ceva’s MM2000 solution provides the range of functionality support we need for our new line of PMP ICs, and does so with power efficiency required for all types of portable consumer products such as MP3 players, cell phones and gaming devices”

 

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments is a licensee of CEVA DSP technology

Toshiba

Toshiba is a licensee of the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP and CEVA SATA technology.

THX

"Ceva is an ideal company to work with THX to take spatial audio solutions to the next level given its synergistic voice, audio and sensor fusion solutions and embedded systems expertise. I look forward to working with CEVA to create further enhanced entertainment experiences for our customers."

 

Unisoc

Unisoc is a licensee of CEVA DSP and Bluetooth technologies

Xincomm

“The CEVA-X DSP delivers the optimal balance of performance and programmability while lowering the overall cost of deployment for our LTE processors. This unique combination enables us to efficiently address mass market LTE chipset requirements targeting China and beyond”

Winner Micro

"Licensing their RivieraWaves BLE5 and Wi-Fi 6 IPs enables us to accelerate the development of our next generation of IoT SoCs and MCUs and meet the incredible demand for IoT connectivity chips across the IoT landscape."

WUQI

WUQI Microelectronics is a leading semiconductor fabless company focused on connectivity and edge AI chips. Our products include SoCs for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Audio, edge AI, and PLC (Power Line Communication). With leading technology in Mixed Signal IC design – including RF, Low power, and RISC-V CPU – and a comprehensive solution of software SDKs and algorithms, WUQI’s products have been adopted by world-class clients such as TP-Link, OPPO, JBL, Anker, JLab, Geely Auto, Xiaomi, and more.

Yamaha

“Our comprehensive selection process has led us to understand clearly that the CEVA-TeakLite-4 cores have the industry-leading audio/voice DSP architecture, the smallest footprint, and the best power efficiency for mobile product ICs. We continue to work together with CEVA for the continual advancement of our audio/voice product roadmap, integrating leading-edge technologies, yet achieving better performance and greater power efficiency at the same time.”

ZTE Corporation

“With its capability to support multiple air interface standards including LTE and 3G in one platform, the flexible CEVA-XC DSP is an outstanding processor architecture to serve the future needs of cellular base station SoCs”