Open AI chiplet startup DreamBig Semiconductor raises $75M in funding

Source: SiliconANGLE

This round was co-led by the Samsung Catalyst Fund and the Sutardja Family, and saw participation from new investors such as Hanwha, Event Horizon and Raptor, plus existing backers such as UMC Capital, BRV, Ignite Innovation Fund and Grandfull Fund.

The startup said the MARS platform will enable customers to focus their investments in silicon on more specific capabilities where they can differentiate themselves from competitors, while taking advantage of the lower costs of the open standard chiplets. So customers, such as chipmakers and server hardware makers, can create computer chips that are laser-focused for specific tasks such as processing generative artificial intelligence, automotive or edge applications, for example.

According to DreamBig, the MARS chiplet standard solves two key challenges faced by many companies trying to build AI servers and accelerators – the problems of scaling up compute and scaling out networking. It overcomes these bottlenecks because, the company claims, it’s the first chiplet that provides direct access to both static random-access memory and dynamic random-access memory tiers. That means it can serve as a platform for compute, accelerator or networking chips, enabling rapid data movement, data caching or data processing, depending on the specific purpose.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Sohail Syed said today’s investment underscores the market’s growing recognition of his company as a “transformative force” in the AI and data center infrastructure market. “Our open MARS Chiplet Platform enables unparalleled scale-up and scale-out solutions so customers can achieve the highest levels of performance and energy efficiency at lowest cost and fastest time-to-market,” he said.

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