About Alphawave Semi
Alphawave Semi designs high-speed connectivity technology for data centres and AI systems, including the serializer-deserializer (SerDes) circuits that move data between chips and over cables, and chiplets, which are small chip pieces combined in one package. It supplies these as licensed designs and as finished silicon. The company is headquartered in London and was founded in 2017. Qualcomm announced an agreement to acquire it in June 2025, and completion of that deal was not independently confirmed.
Alphawave Semi was founded in 2017 and is based in London, UK, United Kingdom. It is listed under ASICs, Interconnect & Networking.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
What Alphawave Semi works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
Interconnect & Networking
Interconnect is the set of links that move data between chips, between boards and between racks. It includes wires on a package, cables inside a server, and the network switches and optical fibre across a data center. A processor is only as useful as the speed at which it can get data in and out.
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