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- EnSilica plc is a leading fabless supplier of complex mixed-signal application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system houses worldwide; it designs and supplies custom radio frequency (RF), mmWave, mixed-signal and digital ICs, alongside a broad portfolio of core intellectual property (IP) products covering cryptography including post-quantum cryptography accelerators, radar signal processing and communications systems; the company also provides full-flow IC design services encompassing system-level design, verification, physical implementation, FPGA and PCB design, analog layout and embedded software. EnSilica serves the automotive, industrial, healthcare, satellite communications and broader technology sectors, with target customers including Tier 1 automotive suppliers, major industrial OEMs such as Siemens, satellite operators and innovative startups; it operates design centres in the UK (Oxford, Bristol, Sheffield, Cambridge), Brazil (Porto Alegre, Campinas), India (Bangalore) and Hungary (Budapest), plus sales subsidiaries in Germany, USA and representation across Europe, North America and Asia. Founded in 2001 and headquartered at 100 Park Drive, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK, the company follows a fabless model outsourcing wafer fabrication and packaging while focusing on high-integrity, standards-compliant solutions such as ISO 26262 functional safety and AEC-Q100 qualification, with partnerships including TSMC Design Centre Alliance, Arm, GlobalFoundries and others. Recent developments include six new ASIC design and supply contract wins in FY2025 valued at over $150 million in lifetime revenues such as a second Siemens industrial automation ASIC, a $31 million automotive/industrial controller over seven years, a $30 million timing controller for industrial test equipment, an $18 million Arm-based sensor ASIC and a $7 million supply-only edge AI chip with $50 million potential supply; chip supply revenues nearly doubled to £5.7 million, surpassing 10 million ASICs shipped to a premium automotive OEM; the company secured £10.38 million UK Space Agency funding for next-generation satellite broadband chips, a UK government £4.3 million contract for a quantum-resilient security controller, first IP royalty payments with an extended $28 million agreement, new satellite feasibility studies worth over £1.6 million, two Ku-band beamformer IC launches and a European Space Agency GNSS contract.