SEMIFIVE SoC Platform & AI ASIC Design

SEMIFIVE is a platform-based SoC design company founded in Seoul, South Korea, in 2019. It helps fabless startups and device makers obtain custom chips, especially AI accelerators, without building a complete in-house chip design and supply chain organisation.

The company offers pre-built, reusable SoC platforms for AI inference, AIoT and HPC, an idea-to-silicon ASIC service that coordinates IP, EDA, foundry and OSAT partners, front-end and back-end design engineering, and turnkey manufacturing covering wafer fabrication, packaging, testing and supply chain. It has project experience on 14nm, 8nm, 5nm and 4nm processes, is a Samsung Foundry SAFE design solution partner, and owns the mixed-signal IP vendor Analog Bits. HyperAccel's Bertha LLM inference chip is a named customer project.

• SoC platforms: pre-built platforms for AI inference, AIoT and HPC chips.
• Idea hand-off ASIC: full development from concept to manufacturing, including IP, EDA, foundry and OSAT coordination.
• Design services: front-end and back-end engineering support for existing chip projects.
• Turnkey manufacturing: wafer fabrication, packaging, testing and supply chain management.
• Analog Bits IP: mixed-signal IP from the company's subsidiary, silicon-proven with TSMC.
• 3D-IC and big-die: solutions for large-die and 3D-IC designs shown at SAFE Forum 2026.

A Vietnamese AI camera or edge device company can commission an inference SoC built on an existing platform instead of starting from scratch. A local chip design startup can outsource back-end design and manufacturing management for its first advanced-node tape-out. An electronics group can explore an AIoT chip for smart home or industrial products.

Reusable SoC platforms shorten the path from specification to tape-out for AI and IoT chips. A single partner handles IP, EDA, foundry, packaging and test coordination, reducing the supply chain burden on small chip teams. Experience down to 4nm and Samsung SAFE partnership give access to advanced nodes. In-house analog IP from Analog Bits covers clocking and power-related blocks.

Demand for custom AI inference silicon is spreading from hyperscalers to startups and device makers, while advanced-node design costs keep rising. Platform-based ASIC providers let smaller teams reuse verified building blocks. Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam and Malaysia, are building chip design capacity and need partners that can carry designs through foundry and packaging.

Founded in 2019, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Foundry SAFE design solution partner. Owns Analog Bits, a mixed-signal IP company with a 21-year history with TSMC. Reported a 97% year-on-year revenue increase in the first half of 2026.