Alchemy Semiconductor
Type	Private
Founded	1999 Austin, Texas
Founder	Greg Hoeppner Phil Pompa Rich Witek Jim Montanaro Richard Reis Ray Stephany
Fate	Acquired by AMD
Defunct	2002
Headquarters	Austin, Texas
Website	http://www.alchemysemi.com (archived)

Alchemy Semiconductor was an American fabless semiconductor company that specialized in developing low-power MIPS microprocessor designs.

Alchemy was founded in Austin, Texas, in 1999 with an investment Cadence Design Systems, Inc. The original Alchemy development team consisted of former DEC Alpha and StrongARM engineers. In May 2000, Alchemy Semiconductor became a solely independent company through funding from US Venture Partners (USVP), Austin Ventures, and Telos Ventures.

In February 2002 AMD acquired Alchemy for approximately $50 million in cash in order to compete with Intel's ARM-based XScale processors. By June of 2006, the Alchemy assets were transferred to Raza Microelectronics, later renamed RMI Corporation. In October 2009 RMI merged with NetLogic Microsystems, who was acquired by Broadcom in 2012.

Processor families

• Alchemy

Microarchitectures

• Au1

Bibliography

• Au1000 Internet Edge Processor presentation
• "AMD Acquisition of Alchemy Semiconductor Expands Market Focus" (Press release). AMD.com. February 6, 2002. Archived June 2002.
• "AMD Announces Completion of Alchemy Acquisition" (Press release). AMD.com. February 19, 2002. Archived June 2002.