Salience Labs
Salience Labs is developing a next-generation computer chip for Artificial Intelligence using photonics (light) on-chip to gain a significant boost in performance.
- Raising
- Series B
- Round
- In progress
- Cohort
- Autumn 21
- Sector
- Semiconductors & Electronics · Telco & Media
- Invested
- 2022
What they do
This technology, based on research from the University of Oxford and Münster University, uses photonics on chip to achieve orders of magnitude performance improvement in AI processing.
Product & technology
Salience is developing a new processor with a hybrid photonic-electronic architecture. Photonics allows for clock speeds of up to 100 GHz, compared to a cap of around 5 GHz for traditional electronic chips. Furthermore, Salience's approach to photonic computing uses a broad bandwidth of light, parallelizing calculations up to 64x with different wavelengths of light.
Why we invested
- →Strong commercial team
- →High demand from the market for solution
- →Business model allows for large training dataset
- →New CTO joined in April 2021
Technology
PhotonicsSemiconductors
Impact
Intelligent AutonomySustainability
