A group of key players in the world-wide nvSRAM business decided at the end of 2008 to set up their own company in Dresden in order to take advantage of the pool of talented engineers and the outstanding semiconductor infrastructure in the Silicon Saxony region. On January 13th 2009, Anvo-Systems Dresden was founded as a privately held company (GmbH) with the vision to set new performance standards to the nvSRAM world.