Alif

Alif Semiconductor is a Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor company building secure, ultra-low-power 32-bit microcontrollers and fusion processors for edge AI/ML. Its Ensemble, Ensemble Gen AI, and Balletto product families pair Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-A cores with dedicated Ethos-U55 neural processing units, hardware AI acceleration, wireless connectivity, and a multilayered security architecture so machine-learning and generative-AI workloads can run directly on battery-powered devices. Developer resources center on Zephyr-based SDKs, CMSIS device family packs, VS Code project templates, evaluation kits, datasheets, reference manuals, and the Conductor configuration tool rather than a hosted web API. The company is backed by Kleiner Perkins.

Alif is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Hardtech, Semiconductors, Microcontrollers, and Edge AI.

Alif’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 6 more developer resources.

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16.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyHardtechSemiconductorsMicrocontrollersEdge AIMachine LearningEmbeddedIoTGenerative AIMCU

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Composite quality — 16.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20

Commercial Clarity 2.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Alif
description: Alif Semiconductor is a Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor company building secure, ultra-low-power 32-bit
  microcontrollers and fusion processors for edge AI/ML. Its Ensemble, Ensemble Gen AI, and Balletto product families pair
  Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-A cores with dedicated Ethos-U55 neural processing units, hardware AI acceleration, wireless connectivity,
  and a multilayered security architecture so machine-learning and generative-AI workloads can run directly on battery-powered
  devices. Developer resources center on Zephyr-based SDKs, CMSIS device family packs, VS Code project templates, evaluation
  kits, datasheets, reference manuals, and the Conductor configuration tool rather than a hosted web API. The company is backed
  by Kleiner Perkins.
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