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The company was co-founded in March 2022 by Kailash Gopalakrishnan, Naveen Verma and Echere Iroaga to build on R&D performed at Princeton University. Gopalakrishnan is chief product officer, Verma is CEO and Iroaga is COO.
Verma has been a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University and Gopalakrishnan was formerly an IBM Fellow and led IBM’s AI hardware and software programs. Iroaga has 25 years of semiconductor experience including senior management roles at Macom and Qualcomm, where he served as director of engineering.
EnCharge said it would use the money to develop semiconductor hardware and software stack, which it claims offers the highest reported efficiency for AI compute to date.
EnCharge’s uses charge-based, in-memory computing technology that was initially developed under DARPA and Department of Defense funded programs and matured over the last six years.
The company claims it can achieve orders-of-magnitude higher compute efficiency and density than has been achieved GPUs or TPUs or beyond-digital accelerators, such as those based on optical or analog computing.
The company states it has several generations of test chips and has achieved 150TOPS/W for 8bit AI compute.
To make the use of its hardware easier for engineers EnCharge offers a software stack that supports broad AI models and resolutions and that integrate into user frameworks and design flows.
EnCharge claims its platform will deliver platforms that provide over 20x higher performance per watt and over 14x higher performance per dollar, compared to the best-in-class digital AI accelerators implemented in the most advanced technology nodes.
The company is going after the Edge AI market and expects applications in automotive sensing, advanced manufacturing, smart retail, smart warehouses and logistics, industrial robotics, and drones.
“Following this Series A round, EnCharge is now positioned to develop products to engage with customer applications in production at the forefront of AI,” said Verma, in a statement.
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