Gistel, Belgium and Meylan, France – March 18, 2025 – Sofics, a leading provider of specialty I/O and on-chip electrostatic discharge (ESD) solutions, and Dolphin Semiconductor, a leading provider of semiconductor IP solutions specializing in mixed signal IP design, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing integrated circuit (IC) designs for customers in key sectors such as IoT, wireless, and automotive. This partnership leverages the complementary nature of both companies’ IP offerings. Sofics’ specialty I/O and ESD protection IP, proven in over 5 billion chips, will work alongside Dolphin Semiconductor’s expertise in power management, in-situ monitors, high-quality audio, power metering and design robustness. Together, the two companies will offer IC design groups access to best-in-class IP solutions that enable faster time-to-market, greater design flexibility, and increased performance robustness. Under this collaboration, Sofics and Dolphin Semiconductor will refer customers to each other for relevant IP needs, ensuring that IC design groups can source optimized solutions for their specific project requirements, from custom I/Os and ESD protection to power-efficient computing and enhanced safety features. “By partnering with Dolphin Semiconductor, we are providing our customers with a more complete IP solution, especially in sectors where performance, reliability, and time-to-market are critical,” said Bart Keppens, Chief Business Development at Sofics. “Our combined expertise enables IC designers to tackle the most challenging applications in automotive, wireless, and IoT markets with confidence.” Dolphin Semiconductor’s market-leading technologies, such as ultra-low power solutions and its audio processing IP platform, are well-suited to meet the growing demands of a connected world, while Sofics’ I/O and ESD provide the reliability and protection needed to ensure product longevity in harsh environments. “Joining forces with Sofics enables us to offer our customers additional value through proven I/O and ESD protection that complements our power management offers,” said Hakim Jaafar, VP Marketing & Application Lab at Dolphin Semiconductor. “This partnership will help IC design teams achieve higher performance and reliability, while minimizing development time and costs.” Watch the webinar About Dolphin Semiconductor   Dolphin Semiconductor is a leading provider of semiconductor IP solutions, specializing in mixed signal IP design targeting markets such as Industrial, High-Performance Computing, Consumer Electronics, IoT and Automotive. Dolphin Semiconductor cutting-edge technology IPs in power management, high-quality audio, power metering, and design safety/robustness, allow their customers to accelerate design cycles, foster faster time-to-market and build products that address the challenges of any industry and support a more sustainable world. With a customer-centric approach, Dolphin Semiconductor provides exceptional support for successful project outcomes.    About Sofics Sofics is an independent IP provider specializing in on-chip ESD solutions. With a track record of proven IP across various foundries and process nodes, Sofics’ technology has been integrated into more than 5000 tape outs from customers worldwide. Its solutions are critical to ensuring the robustness and performance of ICs in a wide range of applications, including automotive, IoT, and wireless. For more information, visit www.sofics.com Media contact Charlotte Reverandcharlotte.reverand@dolphinsemi.com

Dolphin Design announces today it has partnered with Orca Systems, a fabless semiconductor company for the development of ORC3990, a highly integrated wireless system-on-chip (SoC) to provide Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity over satellite and Orca’s new-generation RF SoC products. Orca’s wireless SoCs include a power management unit (PMU) based on Dolphin Design’s full suite of power management IPs tailored for ultra-low power applications such as Satellite IoT endpoint SoC and other power-sensitive SoC devices for direct-to-satellite and other industrial applications. Grenoble, France | August 1, 2023  –  With the advantage of providing connectivity anywhere, the race for satellite IoT connectivity for everything from shipping container and pallet tracking to livestock tracking and smart agriculture is starting to heat up, but it requires meeting challenges around performance, power consumption, price, and size. Orca’s RF SoC integrates all required system functions, including RF transceiver, digital modem, CPUs, and power management, for satellite IoT connectivity in a small package that can operate with a couple of AA batteries for up to 10 years – a game-changing technology for satellite IoT connectivity. The RF SoCs contain fully integrated functions and, in particular, the power management unit (PMU) subsystem including all the analog blocks provided by Dolphin Design, such as a low-frequency crystal oscillator, a switching regulator, two linear regulators, an over-voltage protection module and, a combined power-on and power-off reset. Orca Systems RF SoC for satellite IoT application includes Dolphin Design’s Power Management IPs panoply(Credits: Orca Systems) “We are very pleased to embed Dolphin Design’s IPs inside our SoC product family, including ORC3990, the world’s first fully integrated solution for direct-to-satellite IoT connectivity,” said John McDonough, CEO of Orca Systems. “Our company partners closely with Dolphin Design for the well-known ultra-low-power IPs needed for the satellite industry and our SoC. Their expertise in power management empowers our SoC with the best-in-class low-power performance and This is just the beginning of a great adventure together.” “At Dolphin Design, our core expertise lies in power management and ultra-low power technologies, which are deeply ingrained in our company’s DNA,” said Hakim Jaafar VP of Marketing and Application at Dolphin Design. “We aim to provide the best solution to any energy-caring and challenging markets such as consumer and industrial IoT. The close and strong collaboration with ORCA was a mutual benefit for both companies leading to the success of Orca systems’ SoC products”. About Orca Systems Orca Systems is a champion of always live wireless connectivity, delivering a groundbreaking low-power digital RF transceiver portfolio for the exploding IoT semiconductor market. Patented Orca Live Wireless RF™ digital radio and digital power amplifier (DPA) technology provide ultra-low power consumption to extend the battery life of IoT devices. Silicon-proven Orca Live Wireless RF™ digital transceivers are available to select customers as IP cores, known good die (KGD), and packaged integrated circuits. IP cores are optimized for integration into SoC devices for the lowest cost, smallest silicon area, and lowest power IoT SoC products. Orca Systems is headquartered in San Diego, California, with an exceptional research and development center and state-of-the-art lab facility in Bangalore, India. About Dolphin Design Dolphin Design, a Soitec subsidiary, is a leading provider of semiconductor IP solutions, specializing in ASIC and IP design targeting markets such as Defense, Automotive, industrial, Personal electronics, and IoT. Dolphin Design cutting-edge technology IPs in AI computing, Power management, High-quality Audio, Power metering, and design safety/robustness, allow their thousand customers/partners to accelerate design cycles, foster faster time-to-market and build products/solutions that address the challenges of any industry and support a more sustainable world. With a customer-centric approach, Dolphin Design provides exceptional support for successful project outcomes.   Media contacts:  Charlotte Reverand Dolphin Design Communication Manager  charlotte.reverand@dolphin.fr  

ShortLink AB, a leader in silicon IPs for Very Edge Computing embedding AI, and Dolphin Design announce their partnership in the frame of Dolphin Design’s GoASIC! Program. The two companies bring together their respective breakthrough IPs and SoC design expertise to build a comprehensive design platform for the design of Sub-GHz enabled wireless ASICs. Grenoble, France | November 10, 2022  – The GoASIC! Sub-GHz design platform combines ShortLink and Dolphin Design complementary silicon IPs. It aims at providing a total silicon IP solution to grant the fastest, safest, and most cost-effective design of custom-made and highly energy-efficient Sub-GHz Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). Such Sub-GHz ASICs can be based either on RISC-V or ARM cores and can integrate a suitable mixed signal Sub-GHz transceiver IP together with a complete power management system. The design platform also encompasses high-performance clocking, various ADC solutions, multiple cores, DSP/neural network acceleration, and more features that speed up the safe design of custom ASICs. Philippe Berger, Dolphin Design CEO: “We are proud to have Shortlink as one of the first partners to enter the GoASIC! program. Dolphin Design’s GoASIC! program grants system makers access to a network of semiconductor experts that can help them build integrated circuits customized for their needs in terms of features, performance, and security. Through this program, we minimize their time-to-market while streamlining and securing the supply chain. The high level of integration that we can support both reduces the product form factor and improves the BoM cost structure.” “This partnership will allow more companies to embrace ASIC technology. It is important that such ASIC technology becomes more accessible, especially considering today’s global uncertainties. By lowering entry barriers to ASICs we allow more companies to take control of their supply chain and technology stack. It will also enable us to reach new customers and partnerships” – says August Pansell, Chairman of the board at ShortLink. August Pansell continues: “We believe that the GoASIC! Sub-GHz program is perfect for many applications related to the Internet of Things. We see a great demand when it comes to smart grids, power metering, industry 4.0, and agricultural applications. We have also seen projects for connecting renewable energy sources which is a fantastic application”. Suitable building blocks are selected based on the system requirements and any application-specific gaps are implemented as new silicon IP or custom functionality. Projects can be handled as turn-key projects from specification to series production by leveraging extensive supply chain partnerships. The semiconductor shortage has prompted many companies to consider a custom ASIC to increase control over their supply chain. The increasing polarisation and uncertainties in the world have shown the importance of controlling and understanding the technology and manufacturing required for your company. About ShortLink ShortLink AB has over 25 years of experience in the development of mixed-signal wireless ASICs. We offer a complete workflow for turnkey ASIC development, from specification to tape-out and manufacturing. Our expertise, projects and IP blocks span a variety of technologies and semiconductor foundry companies from deep sub-micron CMOS technologies to high voltage (400V+) technology nodes. We are experienced in porting designs between process nodes and foundries – an invaluable skill to reduce risk and cost during development while maintaining flexibility. Website: https://shortlink.se/ Inquiries: martin.lindskog@shortlink.se About Dolphin Design Dolphin Design, a Soitec subsidiary, is a leading provider of semiconductor IP solutions, specializing in ASIC and IP design targeting markets such as Defense, Automotive, industrial, Personal electronics, and IoT. Dolphin Design cutting-edge technology IPs in AI computing, Power management, High-quality Audio, Power metering, and design safety/robustness, allow their thousand customers/partners to accelerate design cycles, foster faster time-to-market and build products/solutions that address the challenges of any industry and support a more sustainable world. With a customer-centric approach, Dolphin Design provides exceptional support for successful project outcomes. Media contacts:  Charlotte Reverand Dolphin Design Communication Manager  charlotte.reverand@dolphin.fr  

Sonical Inc, a pioneer in developing an open software platform for hearables, today announced a partnership with Dolphin Design. Together, the companies will propose a game-changing heterogeneous computing platform to design ASIC/SoCs with an innovative operating system that will drastically change the end-user experience with hearables. Grenoble, France | September 5, 2022  – CosmOS, the operating system developed by Sonical, combined with a growing ecosystem of plugins and apps, enables users to have a customizable experience for hearables such as headsets, earbuds, hearing aids, and more. CosmOS empowers product makers to transition to Headphone 3.0, which uses an ear computer and operating system allowing end-users to easily define and personalize their experience using apps, just like we do with our smartphones today. The ability to run apps that provide new and greater end-user experience with hearable devices involves a new generation of ASIC/SoC that combines greater computing power and artificial intelligence, without requiring extra power consumption.  “Every person has a unique hearing preference which changes during the day depending on which activity you are doing”, said Gary Spittle, Sonical CEO: “We have developed CosmOS to support the three pillars of hearable technologies that not only allow us to listen to audio but to also listen to the world and listen to our bodies. By downloading apps for your ears, we can deliver new experiences that are beyond the capabilities of regular Bluetooth headphones. With the inclusion of multiple sensors for biometric data capture, we are working with ear device companies to unlock a new wave of innovation, using AI-based algorithms, which of course requires a significant amount of low-power computation. The combination of our operating system and the Dolphin Design IP will enable chip manufacturers to build state-of-the-art ear computers.” Philippe Berger, Dolphin Design CEO added “We have a long-lasting and successful experience in providing ultra-low power audio and power management IPs for the wearable market. Our recent addition of processing IP design platforms enables breakthroughs in performance without compromising on low-power. This market is now facing new technological advancements driven by enhanced user experience as proposed by Sonical thanks to CosmOS. These new applications require disruptive computing IPs with unprecedented energy efficiency to preserve the battery lifetime of the end device. We have co-designed our new accelerators from day one, considering both the Hardware and the Software sides to propose unrivaled energy efficiency. These performances are supported by a robust deployment framework and related drivers to democratize energy-friendly ambient computing.” About Sonical Sonical Inc., is a provider of ultra-low power hardware with associated operating system that provides the technology bridge to put software apps into multiple endpoint devices. To learn more about Sonical, Headphone 3.0, CosmOS and Ear Computers, please visit https://www.sonical.ai  About Dolphin Design Dolphin Design is a leading provider of semiconductor IP solutions, specializing in IP design targeting markets such as Defense, Automotive, industrial, Personal electronics, and IoT. Dolphin Design cutting-edge technology IPs in AI computing, Power management, High-quality Audio, Power metering, and design safety/robustness, allow their thousand customers/partners to accelerate design cycles, foster faster time-to-market and build products/solutions that address the challenges of any industry and support a more sustainable world. With a customer-centric approach, Dolphin Design provides exceptional support for successful project outcomes. Media contacts:  Charlotte Reverand Dolphin Design Communication Manager  charlotte.reverand@dolphin.fr