Semiconductor Data Room
Secure collaboration across every handoff in the chip supply chain - without your IP leaving your tenant
Request a DemoThe Hidden Risks of Semiconductor Collaboration
- Global Collaboration Demands Secure Sharing: Semiconductor innovation depends on multiple partners across countries, requiring confidential IP to move securely beyond organizational boundaries.
- Derivative Files Carry the Greatest Risk: Sensitive designs leave protected databases as GDSII, PDFs, CAD, and Office files - where native security controls no longer apply.
- Every External Share Is a Compliance Event: Cross-border collaboration must satisfy export-control regulations while preventing oversharing, stale guest access, and unauthorized exposure.
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One Collaboration Layer. Every Handoff in the Chain.
Govern 365 Virtual Data Rooms give semiconductor companies a secure, Microsoft 365-native hub to run foundry, IP, supplier, and customer collaboration – and M&A and fundraising rooms – without design and process IP ever leaving the tenant you already control. Provision a governed room for each relationship – a Foundry room for your fab partner, an IP room for a licensor, a supplier room for OSAT or an equipment vendor – and the right controls apply from day one: role-based least privilege, per-recipient watermarking and DRM that travels with the file, export-control-aware access, auto-expiring guests, and an evidence-grade audit trail. Your GDSII, your PDKs, your process recipes, your export-controlled technical data – governed in place on the Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, and SharePoint you already trust. “Your IP never leaves your tenant” is a materially stronger claim in semiconductors than in generic collaboration, because a third-party room holding export-controlled design files is a jurisdictional exposure a tenant-native room simply removes.
How the Govern 365 Virtual Data Room (VDR) Helps the Semiconductor Industry
Design and process IP stays inside your Microsoft 365 boundary – never copied to a vendor’s commercial cloud, never a second environment to secure, and never the jurisdictional question a third-party VDR raises when the files inside are export-controlled.
Entra ID conditions access on role, need-to-know, geography, and person – so controlled design data and process technology never reach an unauthorized party or country. Access is aligned to ITAR, EAR, and FDPR obligations, closing the most common cross-border oversharing gap – whether the counterparty is a foundry, an equipment vendor, or an overseas customer.
Each foundry, IP partner, OSAT provider, equipment vendor, and customer gets its own private room and sees only its own data – and never learns the others exist. Isolation is enforced by Entra ID and SharePoint, not manual care, which matters when your suppliers and customers are often each other’s rivals.
Every file inherits the room’s Microsoft Purview sensitivity label the moment it lands – stamp a Foundry room “Confidential” and every upload carries encryption, watermarking, and rights management that travel with the file, even after it leaves the room.
When a tape-out completes, a license ends, or a supplier engagement closes, one-action revocation collapses external access across links, previews, sync, and cached copies – with recertification schedules, smart disposition, and a retained record so no room becomes an orphaned, stale-guest liability.
Immutable Microsoft Purview audit logs record every view, download, question, and permission change – the access-and-accountability trail customers, auditors, and export-control reviews expect, provable on demand instead of reconstructed after an incident.
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Why Semiconductor Companies Choose Govern 365
Microsoft-Integrated
Fully embedded in Microsoft 365 – no new platform to learn, no second boundary to secure, and no design or process IP leaving your tenant. It completes the Microsoft investment you already own rather than adding another silo.
Protect IP at Every Handoff
The IP moves across design, IP, materials, equipment, foundry, OSAT, test, and the customer. Govern 365 governs the room at each handoff, so the crown jewels stay controlled at exactly the boundaries where they used to leak.
Export-Control Readiness
Geo- and person-aware access, DRM that travels, and immutable logs give you the enforcement and the evidence that EAR, FDPR, and Entity List obligations demand – who, in which country, opened each file, provable on demand.
Least Privilege at Every Boundary
Per-folder, per-document permissions and automated access reviews find and fix the oversharing, stale guests, and orphaned sites that account for most IP loss – replacing need-to-know as a hope with need-to-know as a control.
One Room for a Permanent Condition
Supply-chain collaboration is a standing operating condition, not a deal event. Pre-built room templates, guest governance, and export-control-aware access make secure collaboration the default for every new foundry, vendor, or customer relationship – provisioned in minutes.
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Common Use Cases
Foundry Collaboration & Tape-Out Handoff (GDSII / PDK Exchange)
IP & PDK Licensing Rooms (Cores, Cell Libraries, Foundry Kits)
OSAT / Assembly & Test Data Exchange
Equipment Vendor Collaboration (Specs, Install & Qualification, Calibration, Service)
Materials & Process Data Sharing (Recipes, Certificates of Analysis, Yield & Failure Analysis)
Export-Controlled Cross-Border Collaboration (EAR / FDPR / Entity List / ITAR)
M&A, Divestiture & Fundraising Due Diligence
Customer Technical Data, Roadmap & Contract Sharing (NDAs, SOWs), Supplier Audit, Quality & Compliance Rooms
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. A Govern 365 semiconductor data room keeps design and process IP inside your Microsoft 365 boundary and grants each foundry, IP partner, OSAT provider, equipment vendor, or customer scoped access to its own isolated room within it. GDSII, PDKs, netlists, and sign-off files are never copied into a commercial VDR or a third-party network – which matters in semiconductors because those files are frequently export-controlled, and a third-party room holding them is itself a jurisdictional question a tenant-native room avoids.
Access is governed by Entra ID conditional access, so entitlement can be conditioned on role, need-to-know, geography, and person, and every access is logged. That lets you enforce – and prove – that controlled design data or process technology did not reach an unauthorized party or country without authorization, which is the most common cross-border oversharing failure. Rights management and watermarking travel with the file so the control persists even after a document leaves the room.
That is exactly the gap Govern 365 closes. Your design and process databases are already controlled, but the moment content is exported to a GDSII package, a PDF, or an Office file, it loses those controls. Room-based Microsoft Purview labeling stamps every file with encryption and rights the moment it lands, so the derivative file – the thing that actually travels between companies – stays governed wherever it goes.
A bare Teams site adds a login but not governance – no export-control-aware access, no per-recipient DRM, no auto-expiry, and no defensible audit trail. A standalone VDR adds governance but holds your export-controlled IP in a third-party cloud, outside your security boundary and policies. Govern 365 governs collaboration inside the tenant you already own, so there is no second boundary, no second audit trail, and no second copy of your controlled IP to defend.
Yes. Secure collaboration across the chain is a permanent operating condition, not a one-off transaction. Pre-built room templates, guest-access governance, least-privilege permissions, and export-control-aware access map directly to day-to-day foundry, IP, materials, equipment, OSAT, and customer collaboration – every new relationship gets a governed room provisioned in minutes, with the same controls on from day one.
Yes. Govern 365 runs on the Microsoft Purview audit log, Entra ID identity, and SharePoint storage you already operate, producing immutable, evidence-grade records of every view, download, question, and permission change. That gives you an access-and-accountability trail you can produce on demand for a customer security review, a supplier audit, or an export-control inquiry – rather than reconstructing who saw what after the fact.
