Synthara
Synthara, enables customers to achieve dramatic improvements in compute efficiency and performance.
- Raising
- Series A
- Round
- In progress
- Cohort
- Autumn 23
- Sector
- Semiconductors & Electronics
What they do
Their first product, ComputeRAM, is a fully-CMOS in-compute memory IP that results in 50x more energy-efficient and faster performance with conventional processors such as ARM, RISC-V, x86 or anything else. Furthermore, the resulting system retains backwards compatibility with existing applications and software stacks for AI and signal processing. In the first phase of our go to market, they are targeting edge computing applications such as wearables, smart sensors, and related signal processing applications with our technologies. Synthara will be shipping first samples of their technologies this year to a selected set of early adopter customers.
Product & technology
ComputeRAM, trademarked by Synthara, is a Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) that licensees can use to lower power and accelerate their designs simultaneously. It is fully CMOS compatible, requiring no foundry waivers. A ComputeRAM-based MCU is up to 130x more compute efficient and 50x faster than than conventional co-processors while retaining backwards compatibility with existing applications and software stacks for AI and signal processing. ComputeRAM does this by integrating the computation with the foundry SRAM bit cell in a hard macro. An added benefit is that the bus between the CPU and Memory carries much less traffic, resulting in dramatic gains in system efficiency, and may also make chips 15-20% smaller.
Why we invested
- →The product addresses a major pain points in the industry with 50x better compute efficiency, without making chips larger (in fact 15-20% smaller) and their solution is backward-compatible and future-proof with the software ecosystem. If it works, it will enable better performance across many product types with lower power consumption.
- →Strong customer demand as a result (currently throttled) as they cannot meet demand at present with the team they have.
