Minima Processor

Minima Processor Oy is a Finnish semiconductor IP company headquartered in Oulu, founded in 2016 by Jani Mäkipää and Lauri Koskinen. The company's patented Minima Dynamic Margining technology is a closed-loop, self-adapting near-threshold voltage design methodology that minimizes energy consumption of any digital logic, delivering reported energy-consumption reductions of 15-20x in SoC designs while preserving manufacturing yield. Minima's IP-based approach combines a processor hardware macro, power management module, and software, integrating into standard chip design flows for markets including microcontrollers, IoT devices, hearables, and smart speakers. The company has collaborated with Arm and NXP on ultra-low-power solutions and has raised approximately $7.95M in total funding, including seed and European Innovation Council grant funding, from investors such as Voima Ventures.