Innovation thrives in Silicon 60 list of startups

Silicon 60 companies are selected based on a mix of criteria, including: technology, intended market, maturity, financial position, investment profile and executive leadership. Most importantly, they're emerging companies we believe are important to follow.

ActLight SA (Lausanne, Switzerland), founded in 2010, by Serguei Okhonin, is a fabless semiconductor company developing designs and intellectual property for the combination of light and logic on silicon chips, including the use of CMOS for optical conversion for use in energy harvesting. www.act-light.com

Adapteva Inc. (Lexington, Mass.), founded in 2008, Adapteva is a lean startup that has developed the Epiphany architecture of multicore processors. Adapteva, led by founder Anders Olofsson, is targeting defense and mobile consumer applications. The company claims to have reached break-even point with less than $2 million of investment. www.adapteva.com, according to a report in EETimes.  >>More here

SOURCE:  eetimes.com