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proteanTecs Certified for 2nm Chip Monitoring in TSMC’s N2P Process

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Following the production of a test device for a TSMC customer, Haifa-based proteanTecs announced that its on-chip monitoring technology has been validated for TSMC’s most advanced node to date, the 2-nanometer N2P process. The company’s monitoring system embeds sensors and “agents” inside chips during design, then continuously transmits performance data throughout the product lifecycle.

The proteanTecs Hardware Monitoring System was integrated into a high-performance computing chip designed for a TSMC customer. Test wafers were fabricated and evaluated using industry-standard tools, with results compared against proteanTecs’ system data. The evaluation confirmed the monitoring system met all defined expectations and is ready for mass production in 2nm devices. According to co-founder and CTO Evelyn Landman, the certification underscores the company’s leadership in chip monitoring and analytics.

“Our close collaboration with TSMC enables us to support joint customers more effectively,” Landman said. “By combining our hardware with software applications, we provide insights from design through field operation—delivering continuous performance monitoring, dynamic fault management, and data-driven guidance for future development.”

Breakthrough in On-Chip Temperature Sensing

A key milestone in the certification was solving the challenge of temperature measurement in 2nm chips. Traditional methods rely on thermal diodes based on bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), but their voltage requirements make them unsuitable below 3nm. proteanTecs developed Local Voltage and Thermal Sensors (LVTS) that use existing transistors in the chip, achieving ±1.0°C accuracy and compatibility with current and next-generation GAA transistor architectures.

The testing was carried out under TSMC’s IP Alliance Program, part of its Open Innovation Platform (OIP). proteanTecs’ full platform—spanning embedded agents, sensors, and connectivity infrastructure—has been optimized for nanosheet transistor designs and is now fully certified and available to TSMC customers. The technology is especially relevant for high-performance markets including AI, cloud computing, mobile, automotive, and communications.

Founded in 2017 by veterans of Mellanox, proteanTecs has raised about $250 million to date. Its backers include Avigdor Willenz, Intel Capital, Walden, Viola, and others. Just two weeks ago, the company closed a $51 million Series D round led by IAG Capital Partners, with participation from Arm and Siemens alongside existing investors such as Intel, MediaTek, Koch, Porsche, and Willenz.

proteanTecs Established an Automotive Division

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Above: Gal Crmal, GM of its new Automotive Business Unit. Photo: Linkedin

proteanTecs from Haifa, Israel, expands its in-chip monitoring technology into the Automotive business segment , and recruited industry veteran Gal Carmel as GM of its new Automotive Business Unit. Carmel previously served as Chief Technology and Production Engineering of Samsung Smart Machines, building from the ground-up Samsung’s ADAS/AV technology. Prior to that, he held key roles at Mobileye (acquired by Intel in 2017 for $15.3B).

proteanTecs develops develops a technology called Universal Chip Telemetry, that enables digital systems to report on their own health and performance, throughout their entire lifecycle. During chip design, Agents are seamlessly embedded in the chip to create high coverage data on the chip’s profiling, health and performance. By applying machine learning to the data created these on-chip Agents, proteanTecs provides meaningful insights and visibility, during production and while in-field.

Automotive electronics wave of innovation

“In order to ensure the stringent safety and reliability requirements of critical functions, the automotive industry needs much deeper visibility,” said Gal Carmel. “proteanTecs is leading a transformative approach to provide predictive fault detection and fleet management tools, based on chip telemetry.” According to the company, it already serves large electronics companies in Datacenter, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Communications industries.

Shai Cohen, CEO of proteanTecs, said that the investment in Automotive is a strategic movr. “The sector currently accounts for 9% of global semiconductor revenue, with electric cars set to take a global market share of 30% by 2030. Automotive electronics are in the midst of the next wave of innovation.”

Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Israel with offices in New Jersey, California, Germany and Taiwan. In August 2020 it closed a growth equity financing round of $45M, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and joined by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management.

proteanTecs looks inside the Chip – and sends Reports

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Facing the industry need for bigger, better and more reliable semiconductor devices, a surprising solution was developed by proteanTecs from Haifa, Israel. The company invented a new method to gain meaningful insights and visibility of the chip’s behavior. It allows to track the semiconductors devices during production and in the field and to get new types of data, never collected before, and even to receive failure alerts before they are actually happen.

The basic idea is simple: The company invented its own sensors that are planted inside the semiconductor device and provide telemetry data throughout the device’s entire life cycle. This concept is called Universal Chip Telemetry (UCT). During the design it inserts very small logic circuits (Agents) into the chip, that can be spread all around the chip and collect critical information on the chip’s profiling, health and performance.

After Tape-Out and before chip production, design simulations across hundreds of manufacturing model variants are generated, uploaded to the software platform and processed by machine learning algorithms. During chip and system production and while in-field, analytics are applied to the Agent Readouts for data fusion and actionable insights & alerts are provided by the software platform.

The entire data is loaded into Proteus – a cloud data analytics platform – to provide a complete view of the chip characteristics and behavior and to allow predictive maintenance. In fact,  Proteus is a software platform which applies analytics to data created by the on-chip Agents.

Industry veterans join together to revolutionize the Industry

Founded in 2017 by industry veterans, including former Mellanox founders Shai Cohen (now proteanTecs CEO), Evelyn Landman (CTO) and Roni Ashuri (COO), the company is headquartered in Israel with offices in New Jersey and California. In April, 2019, proteanTecs launched out of stealth mode with completion of a series B financing round of $35 million. Investors include Avigdor Willenz, Intel Capital and others.

Last week it announced the closing of its growth equity financing round of $45M, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and joined by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management. It brings the total investments in the company since its inception to approximately $95 million. The company is already serving some of the largest electronics vendors across multiple industries, including Datacenter, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Communications. Shai Cohen, CEO, said  the investment will be used “to expand our global footprint so that we can offer even greater value to chip vendors, system integrators and service providers.”