Socionext is a system on a chip company formed in March 2015 from former system LSI businesses of Fujitsu and Panasonic. It has about 2,500 employees worldwide and is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. It was privately held by the Development Bank of Japan, Fujitsu, and Panasonic. Socionext Europe is headquartered in Langen, near Frankfurt, with other locations in Munich, Maidenhead and Linz. Socionext America Inc. is the US branch of Socionext Inc. headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company is a fabless ASIC supplier, specializing in a wide range of standard and customizable SoC solutions for automotive, consumer, and industrial markets. On 12 October, 2022, Socionext went public in an IPO to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market. On 5 July, 2023, Socionext announced that the board of directors approved a secondary offering of shares of common stock of the company in the international markets. As a result, DBJ, Fujitsu, and Panasonic Holdings sold all of their shares. Wikipedia