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EQ / Empty Quarter

The largest and
fastest growingsemiconductor design company of
Saudi Arabia

Silicon designed in Riyadh — sensor and mixed-signal SoCs in tapeout, edge-AI processors in design. 50+ Saudi engineers, scaling to 100+ by 2027.

Meet DUNE S1 & DUNE E1
Powering Your Future

Products

A growing product line.
One silicon company.

Intelligent power management and AI infrastructure enablement, designed from Saudi Arabia.

  1. DUNE S1

    A RISC-V sensor & mixed-signal SoC

    Temperature, humidity, voltage and current, sensed and judged on the chip by an embedded RISC-V core.

    First tapeout · 2026
  2. DUNE E1

    Edge-AI processor with an on-chip CNN accelerator

    Lightweight vision networks run directly on a camera feed, for real-time detection at the edge.

    Second tapeout · in design

Design Enablement

Bring a design.
Build the capability.

Customized Design

From your specifications to silicon-ready architectures, with speed, power and scalability in view.

Local Talent Incubation

Expert guidance and infrastructure for semiconductor startups in Saudi Arabia.

الربع الخالي

Ar-Rub' al-Khali — the Empty Quarter

Named after the Empty Quarter.
Based in Riyadh.

EQ Semi is Saudi-owned and managed. Its work brings semiconductor design, intelligent power and local talent development into the same company.

Read the story behind our name

Careers

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