2026 Outlook With Mahesh Tirupattur of Analog Bits

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. 

As CEO of Analog Bits, I am quite excited to be at the helm of a company that plays a critical role in managing power both efficiently and in an intelligent manner.  The sustainability challenges resulting from the explosive growth in AI demand this. I joined the company over 22 years ago and became CEO in 2024. I have seen very strong growth for the company during 2025.

So, you asked about Analog Bits. Well, we are the industry’s leading supplier of mixed signal IP for intelligent energy and power management in a broad range of semiconductor products. We have a track record spanning over 30 years delivering silicon-proven IPs on the latest process nodes. We have an established reputation for easy and reliable integration into advanced SoCs through all the major silicon foundries, and Analog Bits has an outstanding heritage of first-time working IP that lowers risk.  Our leading low-power integrated clocking, sensors, and interconnect IP are pervasive in virtually all of today’s semiconductors, resulting in billions of our IP cores fabricated in customer silicon, from 0.35 micron to 2nm processes.

What was the most exciting high point of 2025 for your company? 

Demonstrating first working silicon of several of our IPs on test chips using TSMC N2P and demonstrating N3 IPs on our customers’ products. And demonstrating power observability and delivering power savings on our power sensors and LDO IPs. We presented five joint TSMC OIP papers with customers such as ARM, Cerebras, NXP, Socionext and Semidrive in three continents. This work demonstrated successful use cases of our IPs in AI, data center and automotive applications. Furthermore, we received the Analog IP Partner of the Year Award from TSMC.

What was the biggest challenge your company faced in 2025? 

The biggest challenge was to keep up with the fast pace of demand from the industry because of AI driving growth. We had to make sure we built not only the best engineering products, but also achieve the scale needed to support market demands. We had to build teams that were scalable and able to adapt quickly to changing needs and requirements to deliver solutions with the highest quality. Another challenge we addressed was to enhance financial discipline and structure to help the IPO process of our parent company.

How is your company’s work addressing this challenge?  

In addition to our engineering team continuing to grow their skills on advanced node designs, we also stayed close to our customers to ensure we understood their needs. So, our customer-facing team not only participated in many industry events to present papers and showcase our solutions but also spent a lot of time directly with customers. This  meant spending a lot of time on planes to ensure first-hand that our IP solutions were meeting their needs.

What do you think the biggest growth area for 2026 will be, and why?

Clearly AI is the buzzword of the moment, but that is a very broad term. For Analog Bits, it translates to huge growth opportunities in areas like data centers and automotive. Today, we see that helping our customers manage power will also optimize performance. These qualities go hand in hand. We see the biggest growth opportunity is helping our customers to gain greater insights into power and managing power for the best performance.

How is your company’s work addressing this growth? 

A key benefit of our technology is something we call the Intelligent Power Architecture. This means providing a way to manage the power within an SoC in a smart way, monitoring power on-chip so that you can optimize power utilization, while not compromising on performance. High accuracy temperature sensors and power glitch sensors are key IPs that can detect abnormalities in SoC designs. And our LDOs, regulators and PLLs help balance performance and power.

Is AI affecting the way you develop your products?

Of course, we are not different than anyone else in this industry in that AI is certainly going to change the way we develop products. For example, Analog Bits collaborates with large system companies designing AI SoC’s who face a myriad of energy efficiency challenges. This allows us to develop smart mixed-signal IPs to solve these application needs.

What conferences did you attend in 2025 and how was the traffic?

We attended several conferences around the world addressing many parts of the value chain, from design (e.g., DAC) to manufacturing (e.g., TSMC, GF and Samsung events globally). These days, most of these conferences are not about traffic but about engaging with customers and partners around the world so that we can be highly responsive to their rapidly changing needs.

Will you participate in conferences in 2026? Same or more as 2025?

Indeed, this will be an important part of our strategy for customer and partner engagement in 2026. We will continue as we did in 2025 but also review and explore what makes sense to do more of.

How do customers normally engage with your company?

Our customers are truly global. They reach out to us through events we attend, our website and our sales channels. We license over 200 IPs each year for 90+ customer engagements. It is exciting to see more system companies license IPs from us directly even though they work with large ASIC houses. This is a good indication that we are solving problems that have system-level importance.

Additional comments? 

The analog IPs we are developing are no longer an end of the line purchase decision. The IPs we develop deliver architectural-level impact and we are excited to build upon our success of 2025 and look forward to even more success in 2026.

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