Arteris (company overview) provides semiconductor system IP and software that help companies design complex system-on-chip and multi-die architectures, including network-on-chip interconnect IP, automation software, cache IP, and functional safety and security technologies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Arteris President and CEO K. Charles Janac to learn more.
K. Charles Janac’s Background
When asked about his professional background and experience identifying emerging opportunities in semiconductor design, Janac shared:
As someone who’s always been drawn to what’s just ahead of the curve, I’ve spent my career identifying inflection points in semiconductor design and turning emerging technologies into scalable, commercial solutions. Before joining Arteris, I held leadership roles across the semiconductor ecosystem, where I turned innovation that started as a niche solution to a specific problem into a foundational technology, coinciding with shifts in industry demands. Bringing innovation to market at the right moment has been a consistent pattern for me.
At Arteris, that’s meant guiding the company from an early innovator in network-on-chip technology to a widely adopted, publicly traded leader in semiconductor system IP. Along the way, we’ve expanded beyond the interconnect, or network-on-chip, into a broader portfolio that addresses system-level challenges, from automation to functional safety and hardware security assurance.
Today, our technology is embedded in billions of semiconductor chips used across AI, automotive, data centers, consumer electronics, communication systems, and more. As the industry moves toward increasingly complex multi-die or chiplet architectures, our focus is on enabling that next phase of chip design at scale.
Primary Responsibilities
When discussing his primary responsibilities and approach to leading Arteris, Janac explained:
My role is centered on setting direction and ensuring we’re aligned with where the industry is going, not where it’s been. That means identifying the next set of system-level challenges in semiconductor design, deciding where to invest, and making sure we can translate those opportunities into real-world products that customers can deploy at scale.
A big part of that is maintaining the balance between innovation and execution. In other words, bringing new capabilities to market while continuing to deliver for a global customer base facing complex challenges in the AI era.
Equally important is building the organization to support that. As we’ve grown, I’ve focused on scaling the company across geographies, strengthening our partnerships across the ecosystem, and positioning Arteris to lead in areas like hardware security assurance, AI-driven design, and multi-die systems, where complexity and risk are increasing, and the need for proven, production-ready solutions is critical.
Taking Arteris Public
When asked about his favorite memory from working at Arteris, Janac recalled:
What stands out the most is taking Arteris public in 2021. This wasn’t just a milestone in the company’s history, but a reflection of everything that came before it: the caliber of engineering effort and dedication, the multidisciplinary collaboration across the company, and the passion for growth among our employees.
What made it meaningful wasn’t the event itself, but the journey to get there: building the business, earning the trust of customers, and proving that what started as a specialized technology could become foundational across the semiconductor industry.
For me, it was mainly a special moment to recognize the team. Scaling a company to that point takes years of disciplined execution, and the IPO was a chance to step back and see how far we’d come. At the same time, it didn’t feel like an endpoint, but more of a transition into the next phase of growth, with a broader platform to expand what we’re building.
Our pace of innovation has quickened since the IPO, and we continue to expand our team and help more companies accelerate semiconductor chip innovation. Arteris technology has become a catalyst for innovation, as it frees chip designers to push the boundaries and build the future.
Core Products And Features
When describing Arteris’ core products and features, Janac detailed:
Arteris provides semiconductor system IP and software that help companies design complex system-on-chip and multi-die or chiplet architectures more efficiently and with greater confidence. At the core of our portfolio is network-on-chip interconnect IP, which manages how data moves within a chip, an increasingly critical challenge as designs scale in performance, complexity, and heterogeneity.
Our portfolio also addresses broader system-level needs, including:
- Interconnect IP, including FlexGen, FlexNoC, Ncore, and FlexWay: Scalable, configurable NoC technology for coherent and non-coherent data movement on the chip across a wide range of applications.
- Automation software, including Magillem Registers and Magillem Connectivity: Tools that automate SoC design, integration, and configuration, improving productivity and reducing risk for engineering teams.
- Cache IP, including CodaCache: Last-level cache solutions that improve performance, data locality, and power efficiency in complex chip designs where bandwidth is critical.
- Functional safety and security options: Technologies that help customers meet stringent automotive and emerging cybersecurity requirements in semiconductor designs.
Together, these products and solutions enable our customers, including semiconductor manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, hyperscale system houses, and semiconductor design firms, to design and deliver high-performance, efficient, and increasingly complex chips for markets spanning physical AI, automotive, data centers, communications, consumer electronics, and industrial applications.
Managing Semiconductor Complexity
When asked about the challenges Arteris has recently faced and how the company has addressed them, Janac noted:
One of the biggest challenges right now is the pace at which semiconductor system complexity is increasing, driven largely by AI workloads and the shift toward multi-die or chiplet architectures.
Adding more compute to the semiconductor chip is no longer the answer, as design teams are dealing with data movement bottlenecks, power constraints, and integration challenges that don’t scale with traditional approaches. At the same time, time-to-market pressures haven’t eased, so teams are being asked to do more, faster, and with less margin for error.
We’ve addressed that by focusing on automation and system-level design from the outset. Rather than treating interconnect, cache, and integration as separate problems, we’ve built a portfolio that helps customers architect and optimize the system as a whole earlier in the design process.
That combination of automation and proven IP allows teams to manage both complexity and security with more predictability, helping ensure that increasingly connected AI and multi-die systems are architected for security from the outset, while bringing designs to market with greater confidence.
Technology Evolution
When discussing how Arteris’ technology has evolved since the company launched, Janac described:
Arteris started with a focus on network-on-chip interconnect technology, solving what was initially a very specific challenge around efficient data movement within increasingly complex SoCs. Over time, and as system requirements evolved, so did our technology, which has expanded from interconnect IP into a broader set of system IP solutions and automation capabilities.
Today, that includes not just interconnect, but cache IP, design automation software, and solutions that address functional safety and hardware security assurance, reflecting the industry’s growing focus on protecting increasingly valuable silicon IP and AI infrastructure. The common thread has been staying aligned with where complexity is and evolving our portfolio to support that shift in a way that’s both scalable and commercially viable.
Arteris products and solutions are silicon-proven, and they are utilized by the world’s top semiconductor and technology companies to improve chip or chiplet performance and security, elevate engineering productivity, reduce risk, lower costs, and bring complex designs to market faster.
I’m proud to say that our customer retention rate is exceedingly high because of our innovative technology and the expert support the Arteris team delivers to ensure our customers’ success.
Major Company Milestones
When asked about Arteris’ most significant milestones, Janac said:
The IPO was a significant milestone, but other milestones that stand out include the scale and growth we’ve achieved as a company. Our technology has now been deployed in more than 4 billion chips worldwide as of the first quarter of 2026, including many of the industry’s most advanced AI and autonomous systems, and is used by 9 of the top 10 semiconductor companies.
Today, we support customers across all of the hottest industries, including automotive and autonomy in general, enterprise computing, aerospace and defense, communications, consumer markets, physical AI, and industrial applications. This reflects how central these system-level challenges have become to modern chip design and how our solutions help.
We’ve also continued to broaden the company beyond our original NoC foundation through both internal innovation and strategic acquisitions. In 2020, we expanded into SoC integration automation with the acquisition of Magillem. In 2023, we added hardware-software integration capabilities through Semifore.
More recently, we acquired Cycuity in January 2026, extending Arteris into semiconductor cybersecurity assurance at a time when hardware-level security is becoming a major industry priority.
Customer Success Stories
When invited to share specific customer success stories, Janac explained:
One example that reflects the kind of impact we aim to have is our work with Renesas, which used Arteris interconnect technology in its R-Car Gen 5 automotive platform to manage the growing complexity, performance, and functional safety requirements of AI-enabled vehicles.
We’ve seen similar success in advanced driver-assistance system applications with companies like Mobileye, where efficiently moving massive amounts of data is essential to meeting real-time performance and power targets. In both cases, our role is to help customers overcome architectural complexity and bring production-ready silicon to market with predictable performance and efficiency.
We’re also supporting customers across a broad range of industries beyond automotive. Altera, for example, is advancing intelligent computing platforms for cloud infrastructure, communications, industrial automation, aerospace, defense, and edge AI applications. Arteris helps address the increasing complexity of these next-generation designs by improving scalability, development efficiency, and overall system performance.
In aerospace and defense, NanoXplore is developing radiation-hardened semiconductor solutions for mission-critical environments where reliability is paramount. Arteris technology helps simplify the design of these highly complex space-grade systems while optimizing power, efficiency, and performance.
And in AI and high-performance computing, AMD is developing next-generation chiplet-based architectures for demanding data center workloads. Arteris helps manage the complexity of these advanced designs by enabling more efficient system connectivity, scalability, and performance across increasingly sophisticated AI platforms.
These are just a few examples from the hundreds of semiconductor and technology companies we work with around the world, and they represent only a few of the customer engagements we can publicly discuss. We have additional customer collaborations and use cases on the Arteris website.
Revenue And Public-Market Information
When asked about Arteris’ funding and revenue metrics, Janac clarified:
Arteris is a publicly traded company listed under the Nasdaq symbol AIP, and our earnings information is available in the IR section of arteris.com. To see our latest growth, please visit that site for revenue growth details.
Our customers continue to innovate in exciting, high-growth areas. All of these require a combination of high performance, energy efficiency, safety, and security, among other capabilities.
Overall, Arteris is in a strong position to support semiconductor applications in the AI era across data center infrastructure, autonomous vehicle decision-making, advanced communications, smarter consumer electronics, industrial automation, and aerospace and defense use cases, enabling efficient, safe, and secure data movement in every chip and chiplet created with our technology.
Competitive Differentiation
When asked what differentiates Arteris from its competition, Janac emphasized:
What differentiates Arteris is our innovative technology and expert support. Customer success is one of our core values. We are focused on solving system-level challenges, not just delivering point IP.
As semiconductor design has become more complex, especially with AI and multi-die architectures, success depends on how well the entire system is architected, integrated, and optimized, not just on individual components. We’ve built our portfolio and team around that reality, combining proven IP with automation and a standards-based approach that helps customers design at scale.
Here are just a few ways Arteris stands out:
- Our system-level approach addresses data movement, integration, and optimization holistically rather than as isolated problems.
- Our technology is proven at scale, having been deployed in billions of chips across leading semiconductor companies and high-volume production environments.
- Our approach uses automation-driven design with tools like FlexGen and Magillem that reduce manual effort, accelerate development, and improve predictability.
- Our standards-based interoperability, through strong support for industry standards like AMBA and IP-XACT, enables flexibility across ecosystems.
- We continue to expand into adjacent technologies, with capabilities in cache, functional safety, and hardware security that extend our value beyond traditional interconnect IP.
- We have a global team of field application engineers to support successful outcomes for our customers.
Future Goals
When discussing Arteris’ future goals, Janac shared:
Our focus remains on helping customers manage the next generation of semiconductor complexity, particularly as AI, chiplets, and multi-die architectures become more mainstream.
The industry is moving toward increasingly heterogeneous systems where data movement, integration, security, and power efficiency must all be addressed together, not independently. I see a significant opportunity in continuing to expand our role in enabling that transition.
That means continuing to invest in automation, system IP, and hardware security assurance while broadening the platform around our core interconnect technologies. Recent steps, including the acquisition of Cycuity and our work around AI-driven and multi-die system design, reflect that direction.
Ultimately, the goal is to help customers design increasingly sophisticated systems faster, more efficiently, and with greater confidence as semiconductor innovation continues to accelerate.
Data Movement After Moore’s Law
When invited to discuss an additional industry topic, Janac concluded:
One point I’d like to emphasize is that the industry is going through a fundamental shift, post-Moore’s Law, where data movement, not compute, is becoming the primary constraint in system design.
As AI workloads scale and architectures become more distributed, the ability to efficiently move, manage, and secure data across increasingly complex semiconductor systems is what ultimately determines performance and efficiency. It’s not just about adding more compute power through CPUs, especially in a world where data center energy efficiency is a major constraint.
That shift plays directly to our strengths. While compute tends to get the attention, it’s the underlying system architecture that enables it to scale in a practical, production-ready way.
Arteris helps make that complexity manageable so customers can design systems that not only perform, but can also be built, validated, and brought to market quickly and reliably.
