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The following is a list of notable vendors in the business of licensing IP cores.

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / GEMM Accelerators

Akeana

Analog-to-digital converters (ADC)

Broadband modem and error correction

Cadence Design Systems
CEVA, Inc.
IMEC
On2 Technologies (through acquisition of Hantro)
Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)
Tensilica (now part of Cadence Design Systems)

Digital-to-analog converters (DAC)

Cadence Design Systems
Cosmic Circuits (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
Dolphin Integration
S3 Group

Digital signal processors (DSP)

Synopsys - ARC
Tensilica - Xtensa (now part of Cadence Design Systems)

DRAM

DRAM controllers

Actel
Altera
Arm Holdings
Barco Silex
Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
Faraday Technology
Lattice Semiconductor
Rambus
Synopsys
Xilinx (acquired by AMD)

DRAM PHYs

Arm Holdings
Cadence Design Systems (through acquisition of Denali Software)
Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)

High-bandwidth memory - HBM PHYs

Hybrid memory cube - HMC Controllers

Communication IP

Network-on-chip (NoC) / On-chip interconnect

Bluetooth SW stack, link layer, and PHY

Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Dicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices)

Ethernet PHY

Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
Cadence Design Systems

V-by-One

Socionext - HV Series

General-purpose microprocessors

Akeana
Andes Technology, Codasip, SiFive, and others - RISC-V
Arm Holdings - Arm Cortex and Neoverse processor cores
CEVA, Inc. - CEVA-X DSP
Dolphin Integration - 8051, 80251
eSi-RISC - eSi-RISC
Freescale and others - ColdFire
IBM and others - PowerPC/Power ISA
Infineon Technologies - TricoreA
MIPS Technologies - MIPS architecture
OpenCores - OpenRISC
Renesas - SuperH
Socionext - Fujitsu FR
Sun Microsystems and others - OpenSPARC
Synopsys - ARC
Tensilica - Xtensa (now part of Cadence Design Systems)
Western Design Center - 6502, 65816, 65xx
Xilinx (acquired by AMD) - MicroBlaze

Graphics processing units (GPU)

FPGA

Altera
Xilinx (acquired by AMD)

Embedded FPGA (eFPGA)

Menta SAS

HDMI

ISP

I/O pad libraries

Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
Faraday Technology
Synopsys
TSMC

On-chip SRAMs

Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
Dolphin Integration
eSilicon
Synopsys (through acquisition of Virage Logic)

Phase-locked loops (PLL)

Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
Cadence Design Systems
CEVA, Inc.
Cosmic Circuits
S3 Group
TSMC

Power management

Serial ATA (SATA) controllers

Standard cell libraries

Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Artisan Components)
Faraday Technology
NanGate
Silvaco (through acquisition of Dolphin Integration's libraries)
Synopsys

Video processors and computer graphics

Arm Holdings (through acquisition of Falanx and Logipard)
CEVA, Inc.
Chips&Media Specializes in video codecs, image signal processing, and deep learning-based computer vision system (super-resolution).
Google (through acquisition of On2 Technologies)
Imagination Technologies
intoPIX - Specializes in lightweight low latency image, video and sensor compression, including JPEG XS IP, TicoRAW IP and others.
Silicon Image
Socionext - HEVC/H.265, SEERIS 2.5D Graphics IP
Vivante Corporation (offers GPU IP solutions for applications in the mobile, consumer, automotive, embedded, real time/mission critical, and home entertainment markets.)

References

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