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Teksun and the art of getting past the prototype
A working demo is a beginning with excellent publicity. Teksun builds the boards, code and manufacturing processes that give connected products a chance at a second act.
The Little Controller That Made a Memory Giant Think Bigger
In 2012, SK hynix bought a California controller startup. Its San Jose successor now helps turn dense NAND into enterprise SSDs - including a 245TB drive aimed at AI data centers.
Design Catapult takes the sketch all the way to the shipping box
A hospital cart, a contamination scanner and a cold-brew machine have something in common: Design Catapult. The California firm makes a business of the difficult distance between a clever idea and a product someone can actually use.
Linaro keeps good hardware from growing old
The Arm software specialist helps manufacturers escape ageing code and keep products useful. Now it is changing its own business model, pairing paid engineering with a free collaboration forum.
The Software Company Asking Linux to Show Its Work
Codethink built a consultancy by fixing the plumbing beneath cars, medical devices and financial systems. Its bolder project is to make open-source software acceptable where a bug can become a safety case.
Eximietas Design
Eximietas Design is a San Jose-headquartered engineering services firm that takes products from idea to silicon to intelligent ecosystem. Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneur Jay Avula, its team covers the full stack of modern hardware and software - SoC and RTL-to-GDSII chip design, embedded firmware and board bring-up, and cloud, cybersecurity and AI/ML solutions. With roughly 600 engineers across the US and India and a leadership team that has collectively taped out more than 100 chips for the likes of Google, Cisco, Broadcom, Microsoft and Oracle, the company positions itself as a one-stop, full-cycle product development partner.
Zelos Cloud
Zelos Cloud is a San Francisco-based B2B data platform for mission-critical systems, founded in 2023 by three former Tesla and Neuralink engineers. The platform unifies data collection, remote command-and-control, real-time visualization, and automated testing for firmware and industrial systems - solving the tooling chaos that plagues teams building hardware that cannot afford to fail. Backed by Y Combinator (S23) and Human Capital, Zelos Cloud is building the operating layer that firmware and embedded systems engineers have always needed but never had.