# Silvaco

> Silvaco supplies semiconductor and photonics engineers with software for simulating fabrication processes and device physics, designing and verifying circuits, and licensing reusable semiconductor IP. Its Victory TCAD tools and Micron-developed FTCO digital twins connect manufacturing data with virtual experiments. Founded in 1984, the global company trades on Nasdaq as SVCO.

- **Founded:** 1984
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Founders:** Ivan Pesic (Co-founder; former CEO), Katherine S. Ngai-Pesic (Co-founder; chair of the board)
- **Products:** Victory Process, Victory Device, Victory TCAD Lab, FTCO, SmartSpice and Gateway
- **Notable:** Completed Nasdaq IPO in May 2024 under SVCO., More than 800 customers, including more than 200 academic institutions, at December 31, 2025., Completed acquisition of Mixel on August 1, 2025, for USD 22.5 million in cash and shares.

## Products & services

- **Victory Process** — Layout-driven 1D, 2D and 3D fabrication and stress simulation, including etching, deposition, implantation, diffusion and oxidation.
- **Victory Device** — 2D and 3D semiconductor device simulation, with electrical, thermal, optical, radiation and circuit co-simulation capabilities.
- **Victory TCAD Lab** — Interactive tools for building simulation decks, viewing results, designing experiments and working with material parameters.
- **FTCO** — Fab Technology Co-Optimization combines physics simulations and experimental data with machine learning to train digital twins for process, design and yield studies. Publicly documented Micron collaboration in 2024.
- **SmartSpice and Gateway** — Circuit simulation and schematic capture for analog, digital, mixed-signal and RF design workflows.
- **Semiconductor IP** — Licensed standard cells, memory compilers, interfaces, power management and embedded processor designs; Mixel acquisition adds MIPI PHY and SerDes expertise.
- **Modeling and library services** — TCAD and SPICE modeling, library design and characterization, technical support and process design kit support.
- **Victory TCAD 2025 release** — Adds native Windows support and enhancements to solvers, physical models and 3D workflows.

## Achievements

- Completed Nasdaq IPO in May 2024 under SVCO.
- More than 800 customers, including more than 200 academic institutions, at December 31, 2025.
- Completed acquisition of Mixel on August 1, 2025, for USD 22.5 million in cash and shares.
- Reported Q2 2026 revenue growth of 48% year over year and USD 0.6 million non-GAAP operating income; GAAP operating loss remained USD 4.0 million.
- Reported a 3.2-billion-node photonic edge-coupler simulation on 32 NVIDIA GPUs in under four hours, with less than 0.15 dB difference from measurement; company-reported workload-specific result.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Announced Dassault Systèmes partnership for interoperable semiconductor manufacturing digital twins on August 18.
- **2026-08** — Reported Q2 revenue of USD 17.8 million, GAAP net loss of USD 3.7 million and non-GAAP operating income of USD 0.6 million; disclosed a closed USD 10 million Micron investment.
- **2026-07** — Announced NVIDIA collaboration covering accelerated simulation, AI surrogate modeling and visualization.
- **2026-03** — APEC expanded its long-term commitment to Silvaco power-device and circuit tools.

## Links

- Website: https://silvaco.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silvaco/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SilvacoGroup
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SilvacoGroup
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SilvacoGroup/

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Last updated: 2026-10-02