What the US needs is a semiconductor lab that imagines novel ideas for devices, transistors, compute, sensors, memory systems — the foundations of our society — and scales them all the way to a product. In house. That’s what Synapse Semiconductor is.
The globalization of semiconductors was great. It lowered prices and increased the ubiquity of technology. However, it slowed the cycle of innovation. Fabless companies can innovate at the circuit design level with little friction, but what happens when that is not enough? New ideas are limited by the selection of PDKs a foundry has.
So few can make new products where innovation is rooted in new transistor-like devices. So few can imagine where ideas are not constrained by the current market. Synapse Semiconductor is the solution — where ideas are constrained only by the imagination of the future.