American chip manufacturer takes over Cologne IT start-up Silexica

Xilinx buys the German start-up Silexica. The start-up is a spin-off of RWTH Aachen University.

This is the exit for Silexica from Cologne: The programming and analysis start-up has been bought by the American company Xilinx from San Diego. The Cologne-based company's technology will be integrated into Xilinx's platform. "Software programmability is imperative to our long-term goal of accelerating the journey from software to application-optimized hardware systems," said Salil Raje, executive vice president and general manager Data Center Group at Xilinx. "Silexica's technology complements our existing Vitis solution and roadmap and will accelerate our ability to attract a broader range of developers looking to leverage our heterogeneous computing architectures."

Silexica was spun out of RWTH Aachen University in 2014 after six years of research and is based in Cologne, Germany, with offices in Silicon Valley and Japan. Neither company is naming a purchase price. So far, Silexica has already raised $28 million in funding rounds.