efabless

Crowdsourcing Analog for Custom Chips / ASICS

efabless was founded to revive demand-driven innovation in the semiconductor industry. They bring back the 'Garage' to the vocabulary of the semiconductor industry. They build products that spark from effective customer-centric innovation, engineered by great talented minds across the globe and manufactured by their dependable foundry partners. • They design Analog/Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits & Systems. • They believe that multidisciplinary talent and experience are what keep us sharp. • They fuel IC design innovation with new business models & social networking technology. • Their metrics for success are closely tied to those of their customers'. -- WHY -- They believe that the semiconductor industry has converged to stagnation over the last decade. Both product definition and product development approaches have not evolved to adopt advances in knowledge management and global interconnectivity. It is ironic, the industry that benefited the least from it's own positive impact in changing the speed of knowledge sharing and information transfer across disciplines and across geographies. Chip development companies have lost agility, and became less responsive to fast-changing and increasingly-diverse needs of consumers. Cycle times are long, the cost of failure is high leading to increasing fear of taking risk and consequently, yes, fear of innovation! .. and comfort with status quo. It is time to rattle the cages and shake the dust off.