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Press Release12 February 2025Digital IndustriesPlano, Texas, USA

Siemens to accelerate customer time to market with advanced silicon IP through new Alphawave Semi partnership

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This agreement will accelerate customer access to Alphawave Semi’s AI-driven, advanced silicon IP platforms via Siemens’ expansive EDA global sales force. These solutions consist of complete silicon IP building blocks that customers can license and integrate into advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs, including implementations of 3D-IC and chiplet-based technologies. The solutions are especially critical for customers in major technology growth markets such AI, autonomous vehicles, data networking, hyperscaling and storage – markets where 3D-IC designs, chiplets and advanced manufacturing nodes are critical.
“The addition of Alphawave Semi’s silicon IP introduces industry leading technology to our customers, empowering them to achieve unprecedented advances across diverse industries in dramatically shortened timescales," said Mike Ellow, CEO, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “We look forward to collaborating with Alphawave Semi to deliver state-of-the-art IP that addresses the most complex connectivity challenges, at the world’s leading advanced process nodes.”  
An industry leader in high-speed connectivity IP with 112G and 224G SERDES chip designs across multiple nodes and fabs, Alphawave delivers proven, multi-standard silicon IP platforms that enable faster data transmission and greater reliability with lower power for designs in 7nm, 6nm, 5nm and beyond. 
“Siemens Digital Industries Software is a key and trusted partner for AI and hyperscaler developers, and our agreement simplifies and speeds the process of developing SoCs for these, and other leading-edge technologies, to incorporate Alphawave Semi’s IP,” said Tony Pialis, president and CEO, Alphawave Semi. “Our technologies play a critical role in reducing interconnect bottlenecks and this collaboration greatly expands our customer reach, allowing more companies to deliver next-level data processing.”
Siemens will serve as a key partner associated with Alphawave Semi’s PHY, Controller, and Subsystem platform IP optimized for advanced technology nodes -- either individually or in concert with Siemens’ comprehensive range of EDA tools and services. 
With this agreement, Siemens will offer:
  • PHY IP: Alphawave Semi’s industry-leading portfolio of multi-standard connectivity IP covering Ethernet, PCIe, CXL and Die-to-Die applications. These IP support a wide range of data rates from 1Gbps to 224Gbps, which are used in over 30 different industry protocols/standards. 
  • Controller IP: Siemens will offer MultiChannel/MultiRate Ethernet, PCIe, PCIe/CXL Combo, D2D streaming and HBM3E Memory Controllers, which together represent the industry’s leading full-comprehensive interface controller IP solution portfolio. Encompassing the most widely used interfaces for connectivity, these IP offer low power, area, and latency, while targeting applications in the datacenter, telecom, cloud computing, AI, NPU and 5G wireless spaces.
  • Subsystems platforms: Siemens’ offering will also include Alphawave Semi’s subsystems platforms, which combine industry leading PHY IP and interface controller IP for an efficient total design solution.
Siemens and Alphawave Semi's sales and solutions teams are joining forces to address the increasing demand for custom silicon and chiplet-based ASICs in the AI era. Together, they will provide a comprehensive solution stack that spans from initial concepts to finished production parts. This collaboration aims to serve high-growth markets in AI, HPC, and Networking, offering flexible business models tailored to various customer categories.
Alphawave Semi is a global leader in high-speed connectivity and compute silicon for the world’s technology infrastructure. Faced with the exponential growth of data, Alphawave Semi’s technology services a critical need: enabling data to travel faster, more reliably, and with higher performance at lower power. It is a semiconductor company, and its IP, custom silicon, and connectivity products are deployed by global tier-one customers in data centers, compute, networking, AI, 5G, autonomous vehicles, and storage applications.
Siemens Digital Industries Software helps organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Siemens' software and the comprehensive digital twin enable companies to optimize their design, engineering and manufacturing processes to turn today's ideas into the sustainable products of the future. From chips to entire systems, from product to process, across all industries. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Accelerating transformation.

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Siemens Digital Industries (DI) empowers companies of all sizes within the process and discrete manufacturing industries to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformation across the entire value chain. Siemens’ cutting-edge automation and software portfolio revolutionizes the design, realization and optimization of products and production. And with Siemens Xcelerator – the open digital business platform – this process is made even easier, faster, and scalable. Together with our partners and ecosystem, Siemens Digital Industries enables customers to become a sustainable Digital Enterprise. Siemens Digital Industries has a workforce of around 70,000 people worldwide.
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