EE Times Silicon 60: Hot Startups to Watch

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21.07.2014

Silicon 60 companies are selected based on a mix of criteria, including technology, intended market, maturity, financial position, investment profile and executive leadership. Most importantly, they are emerging companies that we believe are important to follow. From Switzerland, three Lausanne-based start-ups have made it on to the list.

It is more than 18 months since EE Times’ last edition of the Silicon 60. ActLight and SoundChip are on the new list for the second time, with the addition of Kandou Bus. ActLight and Kandou Bus are both spin-offs of EPFL.

ActLight SA (Lausanne, Switzerland), founded in 2010, is a fabless semiconductor company that develops designs and intellectual property for the combination of photovoltaic conversion and logic circuits on silicon chips, including the use of CMOS for optical conversion for use in energy harvesting. The company has also reported the development of a dynamic photodiode technology, where the signal delay rather than the current is dependent on the light intensity. 

Kandou Bus SA (Lausanne, Switzerland), a 2011 spin-off of EPFL, is a semiconductor company that specialises in the design of high-speed, energy-efficient serial links (SerDes) and associated technologies. The company has developed a 40 nm SerDes that has shown 12 Gbit/s serial transmission.

SoundChip SA (Lausanne, Switzerland) was founded in 2011 by a team of experts in electro-acoustics. The team has developed the High Definition Personal Audio reference model and licenses intellectual property for use in electronic audio systems by suppliers of consumer electronics devices and passenger entertainment systems.

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