Why Silvaco

Silvaco Group, Inc.

Silvaco Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVCO) builds software and IP for semiconductor and photonics design. It runs as two business units. AI-Driven Manufacturing covers process and device simulation, through TCAD and FTCO. AI-Driven Design covers circuit simulation, custom IC design and licensed semiconductor IP. Silvaco was founded in 1984, and its tools are used at more than 200 universities.

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Founded: 1984

Nasdaq: SVCO

Global Offices: 12

Universities using tools: 200+

What Silvaco sells

Two business units and eight product families, and one conviction behind all of them: a wafer run is an expensive way to ask a question software can answer first.

AI-Driven Manufacturing

Turn multiphysics simulation into engineering intelligence for faster, better-informed decisions.

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AI-Driven Design

Design and verify transistor-level circuits. License silicon-
proven interface IP, Mixel’s MIPI portfolio included, instead
of building your own.

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Since 1984

Four decades in, customers still come to Silvaco with one question: what will this process, device or circuit do in silicon? What changed is the deadline. The physics built up since 1984 now runs through AI-accelerated models, so you get the answer while your next run can still use it.

Along the way, Silvaco listed on Nasdaq and brought Mixel’s MIPI interface IP team into the company.

Who runs it

Ten executives and a seven-member board chaired by Kathy Pesic. If you need a vendor that outlasts your next program, look at who’s running this one.

Meet the full leadership team and board

Dr. Walden “Wally” C. Rhines

Chief Executive Officer and Director

CEO since August 2025. Ran Mentor Graphics as CEO from 1993 to 2017, then Siemens EDA until 2018.

Chris Zegarelli

Chief Financial Officer

CFO since September 2025, after serving as Senior Vice President of Finance at Infineon.

Ian Chen

Chief Revenue Officer

Candace Jackson

SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

David Dutton

SVP of Sales

Careers

Work where the physics is the product

Your work ends up predicting what a device will do in silicon, and customers tape out on the strength of that prediction.

Open roles are posted on Silvaco’s recruitment site.

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Where the offices are

Investors

Silvaco Group, Inc. trades on Nasdaq as SVCO

Quarterly results, SEC filings, governance documents, the investor event calendar and the investor relations contact are all on investors.silvaco.com. For any financial figure, that’s the site to cite.

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Where Silvaco is

Offices across the Americas, Asia and Europe, plus distributor partners covering
India, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Middle East. Pick the one nearest you.

The Americas

Silicon Valley, USA

Brazil

Asia

Yokohama, Japan

Seoul, South Korea

Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Shanghai, China

Singapore

Europe

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Saint Martin, France

Israel

Shanghai, China

Singapore

Distributors

These territories are served by partner companies rather than by a Silvaco office.

India

Cognitive Design Technology Pvt. Ltd. (CDT)

Malaysia, Pakistan and the Middle East

IC MICROSYSTEMS Sdn. Bhd.

Newsroom

Writing about Silvaco? Start from what the company has announced itself.

Press releases

August 18, 2026

Silvaco Announces Partnership with Dassault Systèmes to Advance First-Time-Right Semiconductor Manufacturing

August 6, 2026

Silvaco to Accelerate Physics-Based Digital Twins for Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing Using NVIDIA AI and Accelerated Computing

July 26, 2026

Silvaco Announces Immediate Availability of Mixel MIPI C-PHY/D-PHY Combo IP on TSMC N2P Process

July 23, 2026

Silvaco Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

May 19, 2026

Silvaco Announces Immediate Availability of Mixel MIPI C-PHY/D-PHY Combo IP on TSMC N2P Process

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For reporters

Results, filings and governance live on the investor site. For interviews, comment, logos or product images, contact us and we’ll connect you with the right person.

Press and media enquiries

Financial results and filings

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Questions people ask about Silvaco

What is Silvaco Group?

Silvaco Group, Inc. is a Nasdaq-listed company (SVCO) that makes semiconductor and photonics design software and semiconductor IP. Its two business units are AI-Driven Manufacturing, which models fab processes and the devices they produce, and AI-Driven Design. The Design side covers circuits, verification and licensed IP.

Yes. Its shares trade on the Nasdaq stock market under the ticker SVCO, and ownership and governance details sit on the investor site.

Since 1984, so for more than four decades. Silvaco has 12 offices worldwide, two of them run by distributor partners. More than 200 universities teach and research with its tools.

No free download exists. Instead, an application engineer works with you on an evaluation that runs on your machines and your device data. For licensing, you choose between Time-Based floating licenses on one- to three-year leases and the Victory Omni License. Victory Omni is a single annual license covering TCAD software except the Interactive Tools. Universities go through a separate academic track.

Yes. Mixel has designed MIPI PHYs since 1998 and is now part of Silvaco, so its D-PHY, C-PHY, CSI-2 and DSI IP sits in the Design IP portfolio. Nine foundries and twelve process nodes have already run it in silicon.

Silvaco posts its open roles on its recruitment site. Each listing names the office it's based in, so you know where you'd work before you apply.

At investors.silvaco.com. Quarterly results sit there with SEC filings, governance documents and the investor relations contact.