Best Analog and Mixed Signal ICs Companies in South Korea
The 63 best Analog and Mixed Signal ICs companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Magnachip.
Ranked: Best Analog and Mixed Signal ICs companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnachip Manufacturer of power solutions, display solutions, and automotive solutions | $126M | 113 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2004 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | 1 launch |
| 2 | Panmnesia Provider of link solutions encompassing silicon IP, hardware, and software for AI infrastructure | $12M | 13 mo ago | Series A | Myoungsoo Jung Founder & CEO | 2022 | — | 10 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 3 | Silicon Mitus Developer of power management solutions for consumer electronics | $12M | 202 mo ago | Series B | — | 2007 | AOSSwiperjQuery+1 | 110 patents Advanced switched-capacitor DC‑DC converters with adaptive frequency and power regulation | — |
| 4 | Anabatic Semi Developer of battery management system semiconductors for energy efficiency solutions | $10M | 3 mo ago | Series A | Jeong Se-woong CEO | 2024 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 5 | Pixelplus Provides high-quality CMOS Image Sensors and imaging solutions | $8M | 142 mo ago | Public | Su Sung Co-Founder | 2000 | — | 125 patents Advanced HDR and infrared imaging sensors with RGBIR noise reduction and color reproduction | — |
| 6 | Telechips SoCs for smart car and smart consumer electronics applications | — | 49 mo ago | Public | — | 1999 | SentryApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+11 | 276 patents Semiconductor ICs for RF front‑ends, AI/NN memory ECC, and firmware‑update architectures | — |
| 7 | Wellang Developer of power management ICs for lighing and audio applications | — | 125 mo ago | Series A | DH Lee CEO | 2005 | — | 56 patents High‑voltage gate‑driver ICs and power‑management circuits for audio and LED systems | — |
| 8 | Silicon Works Power management and driver ICs for display market | — | 145 mo ago | Public | Boik Sohn CEO | 1999 | — | 1,823 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
Top 12 Analog and Mixed Signal ICs companies in South Korea
#1
Series A · South Korea · founded 2024$10Mraised▾
Developer of battery management system semiconductors for energy efficiency solutions. The company focuses on creating semiconductors for battery management systems. It aims to provide reliable semiconductor products and solutions.
- Mar 2026Series A$10M
#2
Series A · Daejeon, Daejeon · founded 2022$12.5Mraised▾
Provider of link solutions encompassing silicon IP, hardware, and software for AI infrastructure. The company engineers components from the ground up to support demanding AI workloads. Its silicon IPs incorporate architectural optimizations to minimize latency and power consumption. Leveraging these IPs, its hardware establishes high-speed communication and provides compute and memory resources composing a scalable link fabric. Its software suite completes the fabric, empowering operation in data center and HPC environments. The company's link solution facilitates dynamic resource expansion, pooling, and sharing across disaggregated systems, maximizing resource utilization while minimizing CAPEX and OPEX.
#3
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2004 · 897 employees$125.7Mraised▾
Manufacturer of power solutions, display solutions, and automotive solutions. It offers MXT MOSFETs, SJ MOSFETs, HV MOSFETs, discrete IGBTs, and IGBT chips for standard modules. The company provides power ICs, LED BLU drivers, OLED solutions, PMICs, level shifters, and power conversion products, including AC-DC and DC-DC converters. It also focuses on corporate responsibility, including environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
- Jan 2017Conventional Debt$86.2M
- Nov 2009Series C$39.5M
#4
Series B · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2007 · 253 employees$12Mraised▾
Silicon Mitus develops and manufactures PMIC (power management integrated chips) solutions. It creates power solutions to enhance the performance of tablets, mobile phones, TVs, notebooks, monitors and other electronic applications. The company's product portfolio includes mobile power management, battery management, LED driver, AC/DC power conversion, among others. The company won the GSA Award in 2009 for Start-up to Watch by a Private Semiconductor Company, and again in 2011 for Best Revenue Growth. It was also placed 2nd in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in Asia in 2011.
- Aug 2009Series B$6M
- Oct 2007Series A$6M
#5
Public · Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2000$8.3Mraised▾
Pixelplus provides a range of CMOS Image sensors like Analog, Digital and Medical Sensors, Companion Chips, System on a chip, etc. Its technology claims to provide benefits like high-performance pixel design, low noise analog circuit design, digital image signal processor, high performance and low power system design, etc. It started with a compact VGA and 1.3 M Pixel image sensor solutions for mobile phones in 2003. Its technology has evolved to find applications in areas like security, automotive, medical and bioscience. It is also focussing on applications like security and monitoring camera solutions and automotive camera solutions.
- Aug 2014Post IPO$8.3M
- 2012Post IPO—
- Mar 2003Seed—
#6
Public · Seoul, Seoul · founded 1999 · 327 employees—raised▾
SoCs for smart car and smart consumer electronics applications. It addresses the Car Audio, Car AVN, DAB/DMB, Digital Radio, early rear camera, quick boot, connectiviy in smart car space and OTT/STB, Tablet, Personal Navigation, ADAS, Mobile TV / Digital TV in smart consumer electronics space.
#7
Series A · Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do · founded 2005—raised▾
Wellang Co. is a fabless semiconductor company developing power management ICs. Its products include lighting AC LED driver ICs, a range of audio amplifiers including audio power stages with high-power full-bridge MOSFET power stages and protection functions such as OCP(Over Current Protection), OTP(Over Temperature Protection), UVP(Under Voltage Protection) and SCP(Short Circuit Protection). It also develops low noise block converter regulator (LNBR) which is a monolithic linear and switching voltage regulator and aims to expand its portfolio in related domains.
- Jan 2016Series A—
#8
Public · Daejeon, Daejeon · founded 1999—raised▾
Silicon Works develops power management and driver solutions primarily targeting the display market. Its products include source driver ICs ( CVDS, CEDS ), timing controllers, power management ICs, LED driver ICs, LED lighting driver ICs and SoC integrating many of the above. LG bought 20% stake in the company in 2014 to bolster its display division.
#9
Late Stage · Yongin si, Gyeonggi do · founded 2000 · 82 employees—raised▾
Zinitix specializes in various SoC semiconductors based on its own Microcontroller (MCU) core technology, which are the foundations of its touch controller ICs. The company has also developed antinoise, stylus-pen, and cost-reduction touch solution technologies, serves IT companies from Korea, Taiwan, Japan and the US. It offers touch screen controller ICs, auto focus driver ICs, haptic driver ICs, and motor driver ICs. The company’s products are used in smart phones, tablet PC, laptop PCs, home appliances, and automotive industry.
#10
Public · Hwaseong, Gyeonggi do · founded 2011 · 230 employees—raised▾
Rayence manufactures dental, medical, veterinary, and industrial X-ray detector products. The company is specialized in designing CMOS Wafer for the development of flat panel detectors (TFT) by using the core technology of scintillator that allows radiation detection. It offers products for mammography, surgical, dental 2D/3D, and automatic X-ray inspection detectors.
- Mar 2013Series A—
#11
Deadpooled · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2001—raised▾
Computer vision SoCs, optical sensors and software solutions
#12
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2007—raised▾
Clairpixel develops single chip imaging solutions. The firm develops a whole range of CMOS image sensors - high sensitivity image sensors, WDR image sensors and motion recognition sensors for automotive, security, medical and mobile sectors. Their motion recognition sensor allows for 3D interactions and has a more flexible input device.
- 2011Series B—
- 2008Series A—
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How research on Chip Design & EDA is moving in South Korea
A read on the academic research around Chip Design & EDA — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 354 South Korea-affiliated papers.
- Seoul National University47
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology46
- Samsung44
- Pohang University of Science and Technology31
- Sungkyunkwan University20
- Electronic design automation2→12
- Routing (electronic design automation)2→12
- Transistor3→11
- Scalability1→8
- Logic synthesis3→7
- Logic gate19→29
- Logic family2→5
- NAND gate1→4
- AND-OR-Invert3→5
- Design flow3→5
- Physical design3
- Embedded system3
- Routing (electronic design automation)1
- Very-large-scale integration1
- Printed circuit board1
Where chip design eda is researched across South Korea
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing chip design eda patents in South Korea
South Korea chip design eda patent filing is accelerating — 33 filings from 21 assignees (2016–2025), led by Samsung, Korea Advanced INST SCI & TECH, Semifive; annual filings 3→6.
- Samsung19
- Korea Advanced INST SCI & TECH7
- Semifive5
- UNIV IND & ACAD Collaboration4
- Postech ACAD IND Found3
- Postech RES & Business DEV Found3
- KIM SEON WOOK2
- Nguyen THI Huong Giang2
Common questions
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