Energy-Efficient Ai Semiconductor Company Edgecortix Closes Series A Funding
PRIVATEMar 01, 2022
Round Type
Series A
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Description
EdgeCortix® the AI-focused fabless semiconductor company today announced that it has closed over $8 Million USD in series A funding. EdgeCortix's reconfigurable Dynamic Neural Accelerator® processor architecture and AI acceleration SoC SAKURATM brings best-in-class power-efficiency with near cloud-level performance across infrastructure and embedded edge devices. EdgeCortix solutions offer lower latencies for real-time applications and greater than 10x improvement in frames per second per watt (FPS/Watt) compared to existing GPU based solutions.
Company Information
Company
EdgeCortix
Location
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
About
EdgeCortix is an Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform company, pioneering the future of the connected intelligent edge. It was founded in 2019 with the radical idea of taking a software first approach, while designing an artificial intelligence specific runtime reconfigurable processor from the ground up using a technique called "hardware & software co-exploration". Targeting advanced computer vision applications first, using proprietary hardware and software IP on existing processors like FPGAs and custom designed ASIC, the company is geared towards positively disrupting the rapidly growing AI hardware space across defense, aerospace, smart cities, industry 4.0, autonomous vehicles and robotics.
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