Silicon X

What Silicon X does

Silicon X Sdn. Bhd. is a Malaysia-based FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) company headquartered in Penang that designs proprietary FPGA hardware and a companion software tool suite entirely in-house. The company claims to be South East Asia's first FPGA product company and Asia's pioneering end-to-end FPGA company, and announced the powering-on of its first flagship FPGA chip in 2024. Its two core products are proprietary FPGA hardware positioned for industry-leading performance, energy efficiency, and flexibility, and a software tool suite combining a proprietary backend with a user-friendly GUI intended to lower the barrier to FPGA configuration and deployment.

Silicon X targets enterprise B2B customers across nine verticals: telecommunications, automotive, industrial automation, healthcare, consumer electronics, aerospace, data centers, AI/ML, and multimedia/broadcasting. Its go-to-market is a direct enterprise sales motion supplemented by the AppSiX self-serve online platform (app.siliconx.com.my) and a corporate website. The revenue model is built on FPGA hardware sales paired with software tool suite licensing, though no public pricing has been disclosed and pricing is described as quote-based.

The company is privately held, was founded in 2024, has 11-50 employees, and has not disclosed funding, revenue, customers, patents, partnerships, or management team details in the input data. It markets itself as combining cutting-edge technology with local Malaysian expertise to deliver cost-efficient, scalable, and energy-efficient programmable logic for modern industries.

Name

Silicon X

Legal name

Silicon X Sdn. Bhd.

Website

https://siliconx.com.my

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Silicon X is a Malaysia-based FPGA company (Penang) that designs proprietary FPGA hardware and a software tool suite in-house. It targets enterprise B2B customers across telecom, automotive, industrial automation, healthcare, aerospace, data centers, AI/ML, and other verticals in South East Asia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Semiconductors

NAICS

Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (3344)

SIC

Electronic Computers (3571)

akta.pro primary industry

Programmable Logic (FPGAs/CPLDs) (HDAHAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Compute & Acceleration ICs (CPU/GPU/AI/FPGA/ASIC) (HDAHABAC)

Keywords

• FPGA hardware design
• Programmable logic devices
• FPGA software tools
• Custom chip design
• Embedded FPGA solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Penang

HQ country

Malaysia

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. FPGA Hardware Sales: Sale of proprietary FPGA hardware products designed and manufactured locally in Malaysia. Hardware is positioned as cost-efficient with optimal balance of functionality and performance.
2. Software Tool Suite: Licensing or sale of proprietary FPGA development software tool suite featuring proprietary backend and user-friendly GUI for FPGA configuration and deployment.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Silicon X designs and manufactures proprietary FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) hardware and a companion software tool suite entirely in-house in Malaysia. The company delivers high-performance, energy-efficient, and customizable FPGA solutions for industries including telecommunications, automotive, AI/ML, healthcare, aerospace, data centers, and multimedia broadcasting. Its offerings pair cost-efficient chip hardware with a user-friendly GUI-based development environment.

Product overview

Silicon X is an end-to-end FPGA company offering a unified portfolio of proprietary FPGA hardware and a companion software tool suite. The hardware provides industry-leading performance, energy efficiency, and flexibility, while the software tool suite delivers FPGA design and development capabilities through a proprietary backend combined with an intuitive GUI. Together, these products enable rapid data handling and custom configurations across diverse industry applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FPGA Hardware Proprietary FPGA hardware meticulously designed from the ground up, providing industry-leading performance, energy efficiency, and flexibility for modern applications in telecommunications, automotive, AI, and other industries. Manufactured locally in Malaysia.
• Software Tool Suite FPGA design and development tool suite combining a proprietary backend with a user-friendly GUI, enabling developers to harness FPGA capabilities for complex configurations and deployments across all skill levels.

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Efinix: Silicon Valley-based fabless FPGA company offering Trion and Titanium FPGAs with a focus on low power and AI acceleration; comparable as a smaller fabless FPGA player targeting similar edge AI and embedded applications in adjacent geographies.
• Flex Logix Technologies: US-based company specializing in eFPGA IP for SoC integration; comparable as an emerging player in the programmable logic space addressing AI/ML inference acceleration, an overlapping focus area with Silicon X's AI/ML vertical.

Direct peers

• Intel (Altera): Second major FPGA incumbent (formerly Altera, now operating as an Intel subsidiary); offers Stratix, Cyclone, and Agilex families with the Quartus toolchain. Directly competes with Silicon X in the same product category and customer base.
• Achronix Semiconductor: US-based fabless FPGA company offering high-performance eFPGA IP and standalone Speedster FPGAs; very closely comparable as a smaller fabless FPGA competitor pursuing AI/ML, networking, and compute acceleration use cases similar to Silicon X's stated verticals.
• Microchip Technology (Microsemi): Acquired Microsemi's FPGA portfolio (PolarFire, IGLOO, ProASIC); serves defense, aerospace, industrial, and communications markets. Comparable in targeting similar high-reliability verticals that Silicon X also names.
• AMD (Xilinx): Global FPGA market leader following AMD's acquisition of Xilinx; offers the broadest FPGA portfolio (Virtex, Kintex, Artix, Zynq, Versal ACAP) with deeply entrenched EDA toolchain (Vivado/Vitis). Directly comparable as the primary incumbent Silicon X must displace or differentiate against.
• QuickLogic: US-based fabless FPGA/sensor processing company offering low-power FPGAs and eFPGA IP; comparable as a small-cap pure-play FPGA competitor targeting IoT, mobile, and edge AI workloads overlapping with Silicon X's stated applications.
• Lattice Semiconductor: US-based fabless FPGA specialist focused on low-power, small-form-factor FPGAs (Certus, ECP, Avant). Closely comparable to Silicon X as a pure-play fabless FPGA competitor targeting cost- and power-sensitive applications in similar verticals.

Broad incumbents

• Renesas Electronics: Major Japanese semiconductor company with FPGA and programmable logic offerings alongside MCUs, SoCs, and analog; comparable as a broad incumbent serving the same automotive, industrial, and IoT verticals that Silicon X targets.

Regional players

• Silicon Labs (Silicon Laboratories): US-headquartered fabless semiconductor company focusing on wireless, sensing, and microcontroller technologies rather than FPGAs directly, but comparable as a fabless semiconductor peer with similar B2B enterprise sales motion targeting IoT and industrial verticals that overlap with Silicon X's focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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