- Silvaco (SVCO, Financial) acquires Tech-X Corporation, enhancing photonics and AI modeling capabilities.
- Tech-X's expertise enriches Silvaco's Victory TCAD platform with advanced multi-physics simulation tools.
- Professor John Cary joins Silvaco, bringing over 40 years of computational physics experience.
Silvaco Group, Inc. (SVCO) has announced a strategic acquisition of Tech-X Corporation, a leader in multi-physics simulation software, broadening its capabilities in the photonics and wafer-scale plasma modeling domains for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. This acquisition marks a significant expansion of Silvaco's product offerings in the rapidly growing photonics and AI markets.
Tech-X specializes in cutting-edge simulation tools for photonics, electromagnetics, and plasma dynamics, which will be integrated into Silvaco's Victory Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) platform. This integration aims to enhance digital twin modeling accuracy for semiconductor devices, accelerating innovation and improving the simulation speed and fidelity, particularly in photonics applications.
Professor John Cary, the Chief Technology Officer of Tech-X and a physics professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will join Silvaco as part of the acquisition. His extensive experience in computational physics and advanced algorithm development will be pivotal in integrating Tech-X’s technologies into Silvaco’s platform.
This acquisition is expected to enable Silvaco to transition from device-level simulation to wafer-scale modeling, addressing both micro and macro-scale phenomena critical in photonics and semiconductor manufacturing. Needham & Company provided financial advisory services for this transaction.
