Mythic, the startup building analog AI chips based on compute-in-memory technology using arrays of Flash transistors, has raised $70 million and launched a second, slightly smaller chip based on the original architecture.
The Series C round, led by BlackRock and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, brings Mythic’s total funding to $165.2 million. The company said it would use the funds to accelerate plans for volume production of its analog AI chip products as well as working on next generation hardware while building out its software portfolio.
Tim Vehling, senior vice president for product and business development at Mythic, was unable to discuss the specifics of customer traction, telling EE Times only that: “We continue to have strong interest from video surveillance, industrial machine vision, drones and AR/VR applications.”
Mythic launched its first product, M1108 in November 2020 – a 108-compute tile device capable of 35 TOPS for AI inference in edge products, typically drawing just 4W. The chip is based on Mythic’s analog matrix processor (AMP) architecture. At the time, Mythic said its approach enabled smaller product form factors (since no external DRAM is required), and that its 40-nm silicon would cost less than cutting-edge process node devices.
https://www.eetimes.com/mythic-resizes-its-analog-ai-chip/
Mythic tekee tekoälyprosessoreita ja on nyt saanut lisää sijoituspääomaa.
https://www.mythic-ai.com/
https://kuaciasing.blogspot.com/2021/05/ai-analog-chip-startup-mythic-raises-70.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishatalagala/2021/06/21/dont-worry-about-the-ai-singularity-the-tipping-point-is-already-here/?sh=1808570f1cd4
