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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Semiconductor intellectual property core |
Founded | 1997 |
Fate | Acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2013 |
Headquarters | San Jose, California |
Key people | Chris Rowen, Jack Guedj |
Products | Microprocessors, HiFi audio, DSP cores |
Website | ip |
Tensilica Inc. was a company based in Silicon Valley that developed semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) cores. Tensilica was founded in 1997 by Chris Rowen.[1] In April 2013, the company was acquired by Cadence Design Systems for approximately $326 million.[2]
Most recently he was chief architect at Tensilica working on configurable/extensible processors.