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Sequans Communications SA (Paris, France), founded in 2003, has become a supplier of silicon and embedded software for WiMax-based wireless LAN systems. www.sequans.com

Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd. (Netanya, Israel), founded in June 2004, develops digital television receivers tailored specifically for mobile communications and entertainment devices. www.siano-ms.com

SiBeam Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) was founded in December 2004 by a team from the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) together with several wireless and high-speed communications industry veterans. The company claims to have been the first to build 60-GHz chipsets using CMOS technology. www.sibeam.com

SiDense Corp. (Ottawa, Ontario), founded in 2004, is a developer of embedded nonvolatile memory intellectual property. End-market products include home entertainment consumer products, cellular telephones, RFID, medical, automotive and other uses. www.sidense.com

Signet Solar Ltd. (Menlo Park, Calif.), was founded in September 2006 by Prabhu Goel, previously a pioneer of the EDA industry, to design and manufacture large area, low cost, thin-film silicon photovoltaic modules. The company has a manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany with a production line supplied by Applied Materials Inc.www.signetsolar.com

SiliconBlue Technologies Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in late 2005, has developed a range of FPGAs architected for low power aiming at suitability for handheld, mobile applications. The company was founded by Kapil Shankar, CEO, a 20-year veteran of the programmable logic industry. www.siliconbluetech.com

Silicon Hive (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), provides parallel processing technology for consumer electronics and mobile phone markets. The company licenses embedded parallel processor architectures, compilers and programming tools to chip makers. It was spun out from Philips Research in 2007. www.siliconhive.com

Silistix Ltd. (Manchester, England), founded in December 2003 as a spin off from the Amulet asynchronous logic research group at the University of Manchester in England, has received backing from Intel Capital. www.silistix.com

SiOnyx Inc. (Beverly, Mass.),has licensed a portfolio of shallow junction photonics patents developed by Harvard University in exchange for an unspecified equity stake and downstream royalties. The company was founded in 2006 by Professor Eric Mazur and James Carey to exploit the optoelectronic properties of so-called black silicon. www.sionyx.com

Solido Design Automation Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.) was founded in 2005 with a mission to address process-variation for transistor-level designers. Solido has developed a proprietary set of algorithms forming the core of its technology. www.soliodesign.com

Tela Innovations Inc. (Campbell. Calif.), founded in 2005, offers a lithography technique that the company claims reduces die area and device variability. www.tela-inc.com

TeraNetics Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), founded in 2003, specializes in mixed analog-digital circuits and signal processing techniques for the physical layer of Ethernet communications, particular 10GBase-T.www.teranetics.com

Tilera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.), founded in 2004, is a developer of multicore processors and associated compilers for the networking, wireless and multimedia infrastructure markets. The company was founded by Anant Agarwal, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who serves as chief technology officer. www.tilera.com

Varioptic SA (Lyon, France), founded in 2002, has developed a range of electrically-controlled liquid lenses for use in cameras. The company has concluded a licensing agreement with STMicroelectronics NV. www.varioptic.com

VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China), founded in 2001, is a fabless ASIC design foundry focusing on providing semiconductor IP, design services and turnkey services including manufacturing, packaging, testing, and delivery. www.verisilicon.com

XMOS Semiconductor Ltd. (Bristol, England) is a fabless semiconductor company founded by academic computer scientist David May, in 2006. The company has developed a range of ICs based on multiple event-driven processors. Designs are created in high-level languages, delivering hardware from a software-based design flow. www.xmos.com