Socionext Inc.

About Socionext

Socionext Inc. is a globally active fabless company for System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, which emerged in 2015 from the former System LSI businesses of Fujitsu and Panasonic. Headquartered in Yokohama (Japan) with approximately 2,500 employees worldwide, the company develops standardized and custom SoCs (Solution SoC / fabless ASIC) for automotive, consumer and industrial applications as well as datacenter and AI infrastructure. Its value chain spans IP development, SoC design and system design through to production and quality control including comprehensive customer support; chip fabrication itself is carried out by partners. To this end, Socionext works with advanced process technologies from Intel (18A-P) and TSMC (A14) as well as partners such as Arm, imec, Rambus and Waymo. In Europe, the company is present with the Socionext Europe headquarters in Langen near Frankfurt, a Design and Support Center in Munich, an IP Development & Engineering Center in Maidenhead (UK), and a site in Linz (Austria). Its shares have been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market since October 2022 (code 6526).

Site

Yokohama, Japan

Processes

SoC design and development (Solution SoC / fabless ASIC), System design through production and quality control, Comprehensive customer support, IP development

Materials

Intel 18A-P Process Technology, TSMC A14 Technology, Automotive RF Sensing

Certificates

EcoVadis Sustainability Assessment – Silver Medal, EcoVadis Silver Medal, ISO 9001, IATF 16949

Founded

2015

Employees

approx. 2,500

Industries

Automotive, Consumer, Industrial, Datacenter / AI Infrastructure, Datacenter / AI Infrastructure

1. 01

   IP development

2. 02

   SoC design and development (Solution SoC / fabless ASIC)

3. 03

   System design

4. 04

   Production

5. 05

   Quality control

6. 06

   Customer support

Technologies & Processes

Locations

Products & Solutions

Inside the production

Quality & Sustainability

Socionext offers complete solutions from system design through production and quality control. The company was awarded the EcoVadis Silver Medal for sustainability in 2026 and is included in sustainability indices such as FTSE4Good and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400.

Company History

1. 2015

   Founded in March out of the former System LSI businesses of Fujitsu and Panasonic; initially privately held by DBJ (40%), Fujitsu (40%) and Panasonic (20%)

2. 2016

   Acquisition of the US provider Bayside Design Inc. by Socionext America effective January 1

3. 2018

   Patent license agreement with Rambus for memory controllers and security applications (July)

4. 2022

   IPO on October 12 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market

5. 2023

   Release of the SC1260 Series automotive RF sensors (May); secondary offering – DBJ, Fujitsu and Panasonic Holdings sold their shares

6. 2026

   Inclusion in the FTSE4Good Index Series and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400; EcoVadis Silver Medal; extension of the SoC roadmap to Intel 18A-P and TSMC A14