Celera Semiconductor Acquires SiliconGate to Expand AI-Driven Analog Chip Business

Celera Semiconductor, the leading analog IC supplier using AI to slash the cost and time to develop and supply analog ICs, announced it has acquired SiliconGate, a global leader in analog IC design and supply with offices in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal.

Celera outlined plans to grow its presence in Portugal through the acquisition, creating a worldwide centre of excellence in analogue design and delivery. Elements of this plan include leveraging SiliconGate's existing, substantial design capabilities and its deep relationships with local universities to build a formidable team to meet the growing demand for Celera's unique AI-assisted analogue design and delivery capabilities.

"SiliconGate is a renowned supplier of power management design services. For nearly two decades, they have provided these services to major customers worldwide for diverse applications," said Patrick Brockett, CEO of Celera Semiconductor. "Celera has been working with SiliconGate for some time, and we are very impressed with the company's people and capabilities."

"Celera is experiencing explosive demand for custom analog products and the talented SiliconGate engineers will help us expand our capacity," said Dr Helen Song, Celera's vice president of design. "But just as important, like Celera, the SiliconGate team has a passion for using AI to automate the entire product development flow. Adding this team and its technology to ours will accelerate our progress toward fully autonomous analog design to serve a broader range of customers."

"Analog remains one of the hardest bottlenecks in semiconductor design because performance is governed by continuous device physics, layout parasitics, PVT variation, and iterative human judgment rather than clean digital abstraction," said Kenneth Safar, managing director at Maverick Silicon, Celera's major investor. "Celera's approach is compelling because it turns validated analog building blocks into reusable, AI-searchable design intelligence. Adding SiliconGate's deep power-management and mixed-signal expertise should expand the company's footprint and accelerate the path from specification to silicon-proven analog IP."

"We are excited to be joining forces with Celera Semiconductor. With SiliconGate's track record of more than 900 silicon‑proven IP designs and Celera's proprietary AI technology, our combined teams can deliver exactly the analog ICs our customers need," said Floriberto Lima, CEO of SiliconGate. "What Celera is doing will change a one-hundred-billion-dollar industry and place Portugal at the forefront of this major shift."