Socionext

Overview

Socionext Inc.

native name	株式会社ソシオネクスト
native name lang	ja
type	Public KK
traded as	tyo: 6526
industry	Semiconductor
equity	¥30.2 billion
equity year	2015
founded	March 1, 2015 Yokohama, Japan
hq location	Nomura Real Estate Shin-Yokohama Building 2-10-23 Shin-Yokohama, Kōhoku-ku
hq location city	Yokohama
hq location country	Japan
areas served	Asia Austria China Europe Japan South Korea North America
num employees	2,500
num employees year	2023
key people	Masahiro Koezuka (CEO) Amane Inoue (President, COO) Kenji Ushida (CFO) Yoshifumi Okamoto (CTO) Tsutomu Nozaki (CMO)
products	Custom SoCs Application-specific standard products (ASSP)
website	https://www.socionext.com/en/
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Socionext (株式会社ソシオネクスト) is a system on a chip (SoC) company formed in March 2015 from former system LSI businesses of Fujitsu and Panasonic.[4] It has about 2,500 employees worldwide and is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. It was privately held by the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) (40%), Fujitsu (40%), and Panasonic (20%).[5] After its founding, Socionext lost some of its top engineers to Acacia Communications in August 2016.[6]

Socionext Europe is headquartered in Langen, near Frankfurt, with other locations in Munich, Maidenhead (UK) and Linz (Austria). The Design and Support Center is located in Munich, where the IP Development & Engineering Center is located in Maidenhead (UK).

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