# Alif Semiconductor

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/alif-semiconductor/  
**Website:** https://alifsemi.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Alif Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Pleasanton, California with engineering operations in Grenoble, France. It designs secure, AI/ML-enabled 32-bit microcontrollers and fusion processors for edge computing, built around Arm Cortex-M55 cores and dedicated Arm Ethos-U55 Neural Processing Units. Its Ensemble (E1C, E1, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8) and Balletto (B1) product families target battery-powered edge AI and generative-AI workloads, pairing hardware AI acceleration with autonomous aiPM power management and a multilayered hardware Root of Trust security subsystem. Alif ships an embedded developer surface rather than a public web API: a Zephyr-based SDK, CMSIS Device Family Packs, VS Code project templates, the Conductor configuration tool, evaluation kits, datasheets, and reference manuals published across its support hub and GitHub organization. Added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Lightspeed Venture Partners and Mayfield.

## Kin Score — 16.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Alif Semiconductor Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Semiconductors, Microcontrollers, Edge AI, Machine-Learning, Embedded Systems, IoT, Hardware, Arm Cortex-M55, Neural Processing Unit

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