ABOUT

INSiAVA's mission is to develop and produce innovative, specialised integrated circuit products and technologies that have global competitive advantage. By combining our company's creative talents with a serious engineering approach, we aim to provide our customers with valuable products that meet their needs while providing them with excellent specialist support.

We envision to be on the forefront of specialised integrated circuit design, providing the competitive edge to customers globally, by building and delivering superior quality products for real-world applications through our array of expertise and years of experience in the field of semiconductor engineering.

INSiAVA was founded by the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2005 to commercialise its novel silicon light emitting technology stemming from the research arising from the University’s research

programmes.

The company secured private investment in 2007 and embarked on an extensive research and development programme to improve and optimise silicon light emission and its implementation in standard CMOS processing technology. The goal was to be able to produce products based on the company’s technology without the need to deviate from fabrication technologies used for large scale electronic chip manufacturing. The company achieved several "world first" breakthroughs and is a world leader in the integration of light emission in standard CMOS.



Since 2017 the company has diversified its business by increasing its IP and product portfolio to include the design and development of specialist analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits targeting the power and sensor markets.We envision to be on the forefront of specialised integrated circuit design, providing the competitive edge to customers globally, by building and delivering superior quality products for real-world applications through our array of expertise and years of experience in the field of semiconductor engineering.

INSiAVA owns and actively manages an extensive patent portfolio that covers several inventions with more than 65 granted patents in various international jurisdictions including the USA, Europe, China and Japan. Of these, 11 inventions relate to light emission from indirect band gap semiconductors, 2 relate to the implementation of silicon light emission in CMOS applications and 3 relate to specialised circuits used in analogue and mixed-signal applications. In addition, the company has specialised know-how and other forms of intellectual property for applications in the fields of its ordinary business.

Major South African shareholders in the company are: