About Alif Semiconductor
Fabless maker of Arm Cortex-M55 microcontrollers with Ethos-U55 NPUs (Ensemble) and a wireless variant (Balletto). It opened a European R&D site in Oulu, Finland in May 2025. On 10 September 2026 Analog Devices announced an agreement to acquire Alif for $1.35 billion plus up to $200 million contingent, closing expected before end of 2026.
Alif Semiconductor was founded in 2019 and is based in Pleasanton, CA, United States. It is listed under CPUs & RISC-V, Edge Computing.
Compute Technologies
- Edge Computing
- NPUs
What Alif Semiconductor works on
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
