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Semiconductor Ecosystem Architects

Connecting semiconductor technology with the markets that need it.

We help semiconductor companies identify the right growth opportunities, structure the partnerships behind them and take them into execution across regions.

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Munich · Working across regions

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Why SiRah exists

Semiconductors shape every industry. Their ecosystem is complex.

Before a chip reaches a car, a factory or a data centre, it passes through many companies, countries and public programmes. Each step depends on another: no chip design without design software, no fab without equipment, no equipment without specialised materials, no AI system without advanced packaging. Each handover is a decision, and an opportunity.

01

Markets are moving.

New fabs, programmes and supply chains are reshaping where demand and partners are.

02

The buyer is rarely the decider.

Engineering, purchasing, management and public stakeholders all shape the outcome.

03

Windows open, and close.

Design-in windows and programme calls set their own timing.

04

Public money shapes the market.

Programmes, consortia and sovereignty goals need industry to lead.

The semiconductor ecosystem

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The semiconductor ecosystem: inputs, six value-chain stages from chip design to end markets, and the enablers around them.
The semiconductor ecosystem From chip development to integrated systems. Each step depends on the one before. WHAT FLOWS IN IP & EDA Design tools, IP blocks Materials Wafers, chemicals, gases Equipment & lithography Etch, deposition, metrology Research & technology access Universities, RTOs, pilot lines Software & engineering Firmware, embedded software Networks & market access Clusters, distributors, partners VALUE CHAIN 01 Chip design Architecture, IP, verification 02 Wafer fabrication Patterning, etch, deposition 03 Advanced packaging & test Assembly, chiplets, 3D, test 04 Board & module assembly Power, sensing, processing, memory 05 System integration Hardware, software, validation 06 · END MARKETS Automotive Industrial Data centres & AI Consumer & mobile Also medical, energy, aerospace ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT Capital & funding Investors · Banks Policy & institutions Agencies · Export controls Talent & skills Universities · Training Infrastructure & logistics Utilities · Logistics Quality & qualification Standards · Reliability Feedback flows back from systems and markets to design.

What happens where

IP & EDA

Design software and licensed circuit blocks that every chip designer relies on. A small number of suppliers serve the whole industry.

Materials

Silicon wafers, chemicals, gases and substrates. Highly specialised, and often sourced from a few suppliers in a few countries.

Equipment & lithography

The tools that build chips, from lithography to deposition, etching and inspection. No fab runs without them.

Research & technology access

Universities, research institutes and pilot lines, where new processes and technologies are developed and proven before industry adopts them.

Software & engineering

Embedded software, design services and engineering partners that turn a chip into a working solution for the customer.

Networks & market access

Distributors, clusters, alliances and application partners that connect technology with customers in each region.

01 Chip design

Engineers define the architecture and design the circuits. Many chip companies are fabless: they design, and partners manufacture.

02 Wafer fabrication

Circuits are built layer by layer on silicon wafers, through hundreds of process steps. The most capital-intensive step in the chain.

03 Packaging & test

Wafers are cut into individual chips, packaged and tested. Advanced packaging now shapes the performance of AI and high-performance chips.

04 Board & module assembly

Chips are mounted with other components on boards, often by EMS partners, to form modules for power, sensing, processing and connectivity.

05 System integration

Boards and modules become complete products: a vehicle control unit, a medical scanner, a server. Here the requirements are set that flow back to chip design.

06 End markets

Automotive, industrial, data centres and AI, consumer and mobile, medical and more. Demand here decides what the whole chain builds next.

PCBs & other components

Printed circuit boards, passive components and connectors that sit alongside the chips on every board.

Capital & funding

Venture capital, corporate investment and public funding programmes that finance fabs, startups and research.

Policy & institutions

Ministries, agencies and alliances that set strategy, incentives, export rules and programmes such as the Chips Acts.

Talent & skills

Engineers, technicians and operators at every step. Often the scarcest resource when new sites are built.

Infrastructure & logistics

Power, water, cleanrooms, transport and secure supply routes that every site depends on.

Quality & qualification

Standards, certification and customer qualification, especially in automotive and medical, which decide how fast a product reaches the market.

Source: own synthesis based on the OECD value chain mapping, the WTO Global Value Chain Development Report and further institutional and technical sources. Connections show selected types of relationships, not a complete or measured model.

Our mission

We design the business paths and partnerships that take semiconductor technology into new markets, and bring the right people to the table to make them real.

Clear recommendations, followed by the conversations, visits and negotiations that turn them into agreements. From analysis to agreement.

Where we come in

The moments when companies bring us in.

Expand

A new market is on your growth plan.

A new region, industry or application: we identify where to go first and who to approach.

Partner

A strategic partnership is on the table.

We shape the commercial model and work it through to agreement.

Access

Governments are investing in semiconductors. You want to be part of it.

We prepare your role in programmes and consortia, and the conversations with the people who shape them.

Scale

Your first customers are in. Now it needs to scale.

We build the pipeline, design-ins and partners around your technology.

What we do · Connect · Unlock · Grow

We design the path from technology to business. Markets, partners, programmes, and the terms that make them work.

Connect · 01 Opportunity SprintWhere is our best route to growth? A prioritised opportunity, tested with the market, and a clear recommendation for the next decision. Unlock · 02 Market & Partner EntryHow do we make the opportunity work? A partner model, qualified conversations and commercial terms worked through towards agreement. Grow · 03 Growth MandateHow do we turn first wins into lasting business? Senior commercial leadership for pipeline, partners and programmes, steered with your leadership.

Also available on its own or within any service: Programme Fit & Consortium Readiness

Experience behind SiRah · Partnerships and channels

Building a direct partner business with electronics manufacturers.

Selma developed a direct business structure with EMS partners, connecting commercial relationships and contractual arrangements with data flows, system links and technical support.

More of the experience behind SiRah
Result

Shorter decision paths.

Result

More visibility across the business chain.

Selma Arıcı, founder of SiRah

Selma Arıcı

Founder & Ecosystem Architect

How we work

Start with one decision. Directly with Selma.

Fifteen years of global semiconductor leadership, from international customer programmes and strategic partnerships to ecosystem development with governments, industry and universities. Your first assignment focuses on one opportunity and a defined next decision. Outputs, timing and fee are agreed before work begins.

01Clarify the decisionObjective, evidence, people involved.
02Develop the way forwardOptions, assumptions, dependencies.
03Negotiate and prepareParties, commercial terms, responsibilities.
04Support implementationMilestones and handovers, where agreed.
About Selma and how we work

Also working with

For institutions Turning semiconductor ambition into industrial reality. For governments, investment agencies and funded programmes: find where your location can win, and bring in the companies that make it real. For investors The commercial reality behind a semiconductor investment. An operator’s view on customers, partners and markets, before you invest and after.

Ecosystem signals

What is moving in the ecosystem.

Last updated 20 Oct 2026 · All signals →

Oct 2026 Two new 300mm fabs for GlobalFoundries under a US-Japan initiative United States · Sites
Source: GlobalFoundries Sep 2026 Commercial production starts at a new packaging plant in Surat India · Sites
Source: ANI Sep 2026 Fab2 raises a $500m Series A for small-scale fabs United States · Startups
Source: Crunchbase News

Discuss the opportunity you need to move forward.

One opportunity. A clear next decision. Directly with Selma.

Book an intro call selma@si-rah.tech