(April 29, 2019) ElectraIC and Key ASIC announced today the partnership agreement of joint marketing and design services. Partnership brings together two companies in ASIC/FPGA Design & Verification Services, Internet of Things, Electronic System Design and Semiconductor Design & Manufacturing, enabling them to jointly market respective design services and solutions globally.

With this partnership, both companies will be able to provide their customers a complete range of services and solutions from IP development, ASIC/FPGA design and verification services, embedded system design, wafer production, test development and packaging to fabless chip design companies as well as system integrators and electronics hardware design and verification related trainings.

The strategic collaboration between ElectraIC, the leading design service company based in Turkey specializes in designing IC and systems for airborne electronic hardware systems, mobile connectivity, automotive and defense systems and Key ASIC the leading design company in Asia headquartered in Malaysia specializes in designing ASIC/SoC and systems in the applications of Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not only offer the leading edge solution to digitalization of the industries of automotive and transportation, aviation/aerospace and defense, but will also jointly extend their market reach to Europe, Middle East and Asia countries.

"ElectraIC and KeyASIC provide unique service offerings in the semiconductor design & manufacturing area," said Ateş Berna, managing partner of Electra IC. "This synergy will lead to a strong joint value proposition to customers. We are delighted to join forces with KeyASIC, merging our advanced design and verification services and related trainings with their expertise in IoT, Artificial Intelligence, electronic system design and chip production; to offer a complete solution range to both of our customers"

“Unlike the consumer electronics, the automotive, aviation, aerospace and defense systems require special design and manufacturing technologies and various stringent certifications for quality assurance. This partnership enables us to extend our capability into new industries and also new geographical territories”, said Kah Yee Eg, Chairman and CEO of Key ASIC. “Together, we would be able to offer our customers with trendy leading-edge technologies and complete solutions”, he added.

About ElectraIC (www.electraic.com):

ElectraIC provides design and verification services in the field of ASIC/FPGA Design and Embedded Systems. The team has the experience of working with global multinational companies. ElectraIC have been working on consumer, automotive, mobile connectivity and defense projects. The company also has expertise in DO-254 and supports companies in need of a DO-254 certification. ElectraIC also provides high quality trainings for ASIC/FPGA and Embedded Systems. Some training areas are Xilinx, Intel FPGA, VHDL, SystemVerilog, UVM, SystemC, UVVM, ARM, Embedded Linux.

About the KeyASIC (www.keyasic.com):

KeyASIC Berhad (Stock Code: 0143) is a public listed company on Mainboard of Bursa Malaysia. It specializes design and manufacturing of IOT chips and system, connecting any electronics and non-electronic items to the Internet and enhances with Artificial Intelligence chips and solution. Kcard, Kdrive, Mcard and Mdrive are the IOT products currently shipping in the market. It also offers turnkey ASIC design service and SoC design and manufacturing. Its customers are largely in the US and Asia. It has offices in Malaysia and Taiwan.

(20 September 2017, Kuala Lumpur) KeyASIC Berhad announced today that it has appointed Mr. Chan Ying Poh as General Manager of Semiconductor, IOT Business Unit. Mr. Chan will be responsible for the development of the business and products in semiconductor and the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IOT) industry. The Company started the development of the IOT SoC products, SPG product line few years ago and has been shipping the SPG101 successfully in the IOT Wi-Fi market. Kcard/Kdrive and Mcard/Mdrive are both developed based on SPG101 and the Company is in the process of developing the second generation of IOT SoC. 

Mr. Chan will also be responsible for the development of ASIC design service business, SPG product line and the IOT business. Prior to his promotion, Mr. Chan was the Manager for the ASIC Engineering department where he is responsible for the development of ASIC, IP and also the second generation of the IOT chip where he spearheaded the development of low power libraries with the capability of reducing the power of a chip by more than 30% for the same process technology. Mr. Chan is a veteran in semiconductor industry and has about 20 years of engineering and management experience.

“We started our technology and product development of IOT chip about 5 years ago and we have successfully shipped SPG101 in millions over the last 2 years. Complimenting the IOT chip, we have also developed the Cloud platform so that it is easy for our customers to embrace and kickstart their IOT business. The market is still at the early adoption stage and we are aligning our resources to take the leadership role in driving the IOT market.” said Mr. Eg Kah Yee, Chairman and CEO of the Company. “The opportunity is here and our technology is definitely leading in this space and the appointment of Mr. Chan will help the Company to accelerate the development of this business,” he added.

About KeyASIC:

KeyASIC (Bursa Stock Code: 0143) is a leading IOT chip and ASIC design company. Its six countries patented Mcard and Mdrive are SD WiFi card and USB WiFi drive respectively that enable any host device or equipment with SD or USB interface making connection to Internet Cloud.