Arteris to acquire Cycuity
The addition of Cycuity’s technology and expertise strengthens Arteris’ product portfolio, enabling chip designers to understand and improve data movement security in chiplets and SoCs. This pending acquisition addresses a growing industry concern about the increasing volume of sophisticated cyberattacks targeting the vast amounts of unsecured data moving through semiconductors, from AI data centers to a broad range of edge devices.
“In today’s world, where vast amounts of data are traversing every SoC and chiplet, the need for hardware security is at an inflection point. From the AI data center to the expansive array of edge applications such as autonomous driving, aerospace, drones, robotics, consumer electronics, and more, a hardware security foundation is paramount,” said K. Charles Janac, president and CEO of Arteris. “Expanding our technology portfolio to include Cycuity’s hardware security assurance products will enable our customers to achieve secure on-chip data movement.”
Semiconductor cybersecurity assurance is becoming critical to all types of chip designs, as the threat landscape has expanded to the hardware layer. Silicon vulnerabilities can result in compromised systems exposing unprotected information, a trend accelerated by the proliferation of AI and chiplets. According to the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the reported new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in hardware grew by over 15 times in the last five years. As such, there is a growing need for technology solutions that help to increase semiconductor security without risking SoC functionality, performance, and schedules.
"The growing footprint of hardware security vulnerabilities has greatly extended the attack surface beyond traditional software exploits. From AI data centers to edge devices, designs now require a trustworthy silicon foundation to ensure security for all electronic systems,” said Andreas Kuehlmann, CEO of Cycuity. “Arteris’ products provide the backbone to move the data across SoCs and chiplets, making them naturally complementary to hardware security assurance. Together we can accelerate the secure design and deployment of microelectronics for commercial and defense engineering teams.”
Cycuity’s innovative products and deep domain expertise help mitigate security vulnerabilities across the SoC hardware development cycle, ensuring robust protection of the entire technology stack from chips to software applications. Cycuity products uncover security weaknesses across IP blocks, XPUs and other subsystems, chiplets, and full SoCs including firmware. Working in conjunction with EDA tool flows from leading companies such as Cadence, Siemens EDA, and Synopsys, Cycuity products help semiconductor designers identify, verify, and resolve security risks prior to silicon implementation and production. This includes safeguarding against attacks exploiting microarchitectural side channels, logic bugs, third-party and open-source IP, unsecured interconnects, debug backdoors, and supply-chain gaps.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in Arteris’ first quarter of fiscal year 2026.
