Global EDA leader. Danish office (ex-QuantumWise) develops QuantumATK atomistic simulation for semiconductor DTCO. Now also encompasses Ansys (acquired 2025).
EDA
Formerly Mentor Graphics. Nordic hub for Calibre, Questa, and Catapult HLS. Sales, support, and training for Scandinavian chip design teams.
EDA
Major EDA vendor. No dedicated Danish office â Nordic coverage via Kista (Sweden). Tools widely used by Danish hearing aid ASIC teams.
EDA
Semiconductor simulation (HFSS, SIwave, RedHawk). Nordic presence via Elite Channel Partner EDRMedeso. Now part of Synopsys (acquired July 2025).
EDA
In-house IC team designs custom hearing aid ASICs with DSP, Bluetooth LE Audio, DNN accelerators, and NFMI radio. Fabricated at TSMC.
Hearing Aids
Largest Danish hearing aid ASIC team. Polaris platform: 154M transistors, 3 custom chips on TSMC 28nm. First on-chip DNN in hearing aids (Oticon More, 2021).
Hearing Aids
IC team of 30+ specialists in Lynge designs analog and digital hearing aid chips. Widex + Sivantos merger (2019). Latest: W1 chip in Widex Allure.
Hearing Aids
Israeli-Danish startup developing MEMS ultrasound speakers and custom ASIC driver (M-Amp). Denmark site at DTU Science Park handles ASIC development.
Audio
Startup
Danish semiconductor IP company. 40+ engineers deliver Ethernet IP cores (1G-400G), TSN, CPRI/eCPRI, and Interlaken for ASIC and FPGA integration.
IP / Verification
Networking
Danish SmartNIC company (founded 2003 at DTU). FPGA-based network accelerators up to 400 Gbps on Intel Agilex and AMD/Xilinx FPGAs. Listed on Oslo Stock Exchange.
Networking
FPGA
Danish site focuses on systems engineering and video collaboration (ex-Tandberg/Acano). Silicon One ASIC development is in Israel/US, not Denmark.
Networking
Danish Ethernet test equipment company (founded 2007). Custom FPGA-based test hardware up to 800G. Acquired by Teledyne LeCroy (Oct 2023). All R&D in Lyngby.
Networking
Test Equipment
Founded 1972 as Thrane & Thrane. ~300 employees in Lyngby design ASIC/FPGA-based modem and RF subsystems for SAILOR and EXPLORER satcom terminals.
Space / Satcom
RF / Wireless
Norwegian fabless SoC company. Copenhagen design centre (opened 2023) has been closed. Fabricates at TSMC 22nm and GF 22FDX.
RF / Wireless
Taiwan MTI subsidiary. R&D competence centre for O-RAN 5G-NR radio heads. World-leading supplier of silicon-independent CPRI/OBSAI/JESD204B IP cores.
RF / Wireless
Danish office (ex-IPtronics/Mellanox) in Roskilde designs ICs for optical interconnect and high-speed transceivers. Participated in EU PlaCMOS project.
Hyperscaler / Cloud
Networking
Intel Mobile Communications Denmark in Herlev. ~35 employees working on IC design and verification for communications products. Legacy of Giga A/S and Infineon wireless.
Hyperscaler / Cloud
Small but growing Danish hardware team contributing to custom silicon (MTIA AI accelerator, MSVP video ASIC). Odense data centre at Krogslundvej 140.
Hyperscaler / Cloud
DTU spin-off (2020). Fabless power module company using proprietary silicon interposer combining CMOS, GaN, MEMS, and IPDs. Funded DKK 60M by Noon Ventures + EIC.
Power / Mixed-Signal
Startup
DTU spin-out (2021). Fabless startup designing switched-capacitor power converter ICs for 800V HVDC data centres. Raised EUR 7.5M total (EUR 5M seed Nov 2025).
Power / Mixed-Signal
Startup
Nordic sales/application engineering office in Taastrup. Global semiconductor work includes CMOS sensor ICs, analog ASICs, and VCSEL arrays â not designed in Denmark.
Power / Mixed-Signal
Sensors
Full-lifecycle chip design centre in Herlev. USB and Networking Group designs Ethernet switch SoCs and USB-to-Ethernet controllers (LAN9512, LAN7500).
Power / Mixed-Signal
Danish R&D office (est. 2010) in Jyllinge has been closed. Previously contributed to wireless technology and mobile platform products.
Power / Mixed-Signal
Infineon's former Danish audio design centre â the ex-Merus Audio team (acquired 2018) that developed Infineon's MERUS⢠multilevel Class-D audio amplifier ICs and audio power modules. The Copenhagen site was shut down around 2023.
Audio
Power / Mixed-Signal
Swiss fabless company. Copenhagen design centre works on Chord signaling-based SerDes and Glasswing USR/XSR die-to-die PHY for chiplet interconnects. TSMC fabrication.
Interconnect
Formerly Fiberblaze (founded 2008). ~37 employees designing FPGA-based SmartNICs for HFT, telecom, and cybersecurity on Intel Agilex and Xilinx FPGAs.
FPGA
Networking
Founded 2003 by ex-MIPS engineers. ~46 employees specialising in SystemVerilog/UVM verification consulting and EDA products (SyoGen framework, open-source UVM Scoreboard).
IP / Verification
Founded 2016. Dual offices in Denmark and Penang, Malaysia. Specialises in analog mixed-mode and RF ASIC physical layout from block level to full chip assembly.
IP / Verification
Consulting / Services
One-person consultancy by Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen (30+ year analog IC veteran). Champions open-source silicon: OpenLane, Skywater 130nm PDK, Tiny Tapeout.
Consulting / Services
Operates former DELTA Microelectronics (acquired from FORCE Technology, 2020). Full ASIC design and test services, 1000+ IC test solutions. Børsen Gazelle 2024.
Consulting / Services
Widex spin-out (2015). ~25 employees developing in-ear EEG wearable technology. Partnered with Presto on custom AI ASIC for ultra-low-power EEG acquisition.
Consulting / Services
European patent attorney firm (est. 1995). Semiconductor IP practice led by Peter Borg Gaarde (ex-Lucent). Also specialises in quantum technology patents.
IP Law
Embedded Systems section: 50+ year tradition in digital chip design education. Research in RISC-V (Patmos, Wildcat), NoC architectures, and embedded AI for hearing aids.
Academic
Merged department (300+ researchers). IC design group: CMOS analog, power electronics, integrated GaN. PIC group: silicon photonics. DTU Nanolab cleanroom on-site.
Academic
One of 27 EU Chips Act competence centres. DKK 57M over 4 years. Consortium: DTU Nanolab, AU, KU (NBI), DFM, DI. Specialisation in quantum technology.
Academic
New SDU section (est. 2024) led by Prof. Farshad Moradi. Ultra-low-power IC design for biomedical implants, neuromorphic computing, spintronics, and brain-computer interfaces.
Academic
Danish FPGA/ASIC design house. ~27 employees, 300+ designs over 17 years. Specialises in 800G/1.6T Ethernet, PON, FlexE/OTN, FEC, MACSec. Intel FPGA and Achronix partner.
Startup
Networking
Pan-European semiconductor representative (est. 2014). Represents Intel PSG (FPGAs), Semtech (LoRa), Winbond, Synaptics. Deep design-in support via Authorised Consultant Engineers.
Consulting / Services
US RF semiconductor company (merger of RFMD + TriQuint, 2015). Danish design centre (est. 2000, ex-RFMD Pandrup) develops high-efficiency RF power amplifiers for 5G/6G handsets in GaAs and GaN.
RF / Wireless
DTU spin-out (2022) building low-power, high-speed optical transceivers for AI datacentres. Patented silicon photonics design uses intensity, phase, and polarisation for ~40% better energy efficiency.
Startup
Interconnect
DTU spin-out (2024). Optimization algorithms for analog IC design: ~20 simulations vs thousands, 10-100x faster than commercial tools. From AICA InnoExplorer project.
EDA
Startup
DTU-based startup (founded 2024) building ultra-low-power neuromorphic, brain-inspired hardware accelerators for edge AI. Its ADA platform turns algorithms into energy-efficient, event-based computation for power- and area-constrained devices.
Startup
Herlev-based deep-tech startup developing a Connected Bio-Intelligent System-on-Chip â including a wireless-charging receiver SoC for medical wearables â engineered for medical-grade precision and defence-grade reliability.
Startup
Power / Mixed-Signal
Danish semiconductor IP house (sister company of Comcores under Vaulten ApS) licensing digital chip-to-chip and die-to-die interface IP cores, including UCIe, JESD204B/C/D, MIPI and Interlaken.
Interconnect
IP / Verification
Danish silicon-photonics company developing quasi-coherent (QC) optical transceiver technology and PIC-based modules/receivers for telecom and datacom (25-50 Gbps, PAM4, C-band, DSP-free long-reach).
Networking
One-person Danish digital IC design consultancy providing freelance ASIC/FPGA engineering â including ASIC prototyping/emulation and digital hardware design support for semiconductor projects.
Consulting / Services
Independent, vendor-neutral consultancy specialising in embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) IP integration for SoC teams â from IP selection and design-kit certification to yield tuning and production hotspot resolution.
Consulting / Services
IP / Verification
Danish company designing optical MEMS microchip sensors and complete optical sensor systems for monitoring in harsh industrial environments such as high-voltage assets, wind turbines and oil & gas installations.
Sensors
Danish design site of Marvell Technology Inc., doing System-on-Chip and ASIC/FPGA design for high-speed semiconductor solutions â Ethernet switches, optical interconnects and storage controllers.
Networking
Hyperscaler / Cloud
Danish design site of Silicon Laboratories Inc., a fabless designer of low-power mixed-signal microcontrollers and wireless SoCs (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Thread) and timing/isolation ICs for IoT and industrial applications.
RF / Wireless
Power / Mixed-Signal
Danish industrial group that designs customized IGBT and silicon-carbide (SiC) power semiconductor modules and power stacks for traction inverters, industrial drives and renewable-energy inverters.
Power / Mixed-Signal
Novo Nordisk Foundation-owned quantum fabrication unit (est. 2022, Copenhagen) developing wafer-based processes and integrated circuits â superconducting, semiconducting and photonic â for future fault-tolerant quantum-computing processors.
Quantum / Photonics
Niels Bohr Institute spinout (founded 2016) designing and producing photonic quantum chips â on-chip deterministic single-photon sources that emit long, reliable streams of single photons for quantum computing and communication.
Quantum / Photonics
Danish silicon-photonics foundry service (est. 2018, Virum) providing rapid prototyping and high-precision fabrication of silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on SOI platforms.
Quantum / Photonics
Microsoft Quantum materials lab in Kongens Lyngby (part of Microsoft Danmark ApS) doing semiconductor fabrication for topological qubits using InAs/Al heterostructures.
Quantum / Photonics
Danish pioneer of all-digital audio amplification (founded 1997 in Copenhagen by Lars Risbo). Acquired by Texas Instruments in 2000, where its PWM amplifier technology became the foundation of TI's PurePath Digital products.
Audio
Power / Mixed-Signal
Danish low-power audio ASIC pioneer (founded 2003 in Roskilde) designing pre-amplifiers and converters for miniature MEMS and electret microphones. Acquired by Analog Devices in 2006.
Audio
Sensors
DTU spinout (founded 2010 in Copenhagen) that pioneered energy-efficient multilevel Class-D audio amplifier ICs. Grew to ~18 people and was acquired by Infineon in 2018; its MERUS⢠technology and Copenhagen team continue inside Infineon.
Audio
Power / Mixed-Signal