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Wafer-scale AI chips and supercomputers, and AI training/inference cloud services based on its own hardware.

Series D+ · $2.9B · 2026-02 · Valuation $23B

Transformer-specific inference ASIC chip (Sohu) and inference servers

Series C · $1.9B · 2026-07 · Valuation $10B

AI chips and inference systems (an alternative to Nvidia).

Series D+ · $1.8B · 2026-07 · Valuation $11B

High-performance edge/on-device AI inference chip design; open computing platform for agentic intelligence

Angel · $100M · 2026-09

3D compute-in-memory (3D-CIM) AI inference chips

Series C · $154M · 2026-09

Neuromorphic sensing-memory-compute chips, using brain-inspired computing and mixed-signal design to integrate sensing, storage and computation

Series C · $139M · 2026-10

Photonic AI inference chip (DX-1/optical tensor processing unit) that uses SRAM plus photonic interconnects to bypass the HBM bottleneck, with accompanying optical networking and rack-scale systems

Series B · $532M · 2026-08 · Valuation $3.3B

Compute-in-memory AI inference chips and complete systems for data centers

Series B · $236M · 2026-05

High-performance AI inference chips for automotive, mobile and data center applications

Undisclosed · $46M · 2025-05

Designs the AI inference chip Rebel100 along with companion servers and full racks, for telecom operators and data centers to run agent inference

Pre-IPO · $898M · 2026-03 · Valuation $2.3B

RA/RX/RL78/RH850 series MCUs, RZ series MPUs, R-Car automotive SoCs, power management and analog/mixed-signal devices; ships over 3.5 billion units a year, about half for automotive and the rest for industrial, IoT and data center/communications infrastructure; offers on-device machine learning solutions using inference technology from the acquired Reality AI.

Develops processors and software that enhance AI and machine learning capabilities

Series D+ · $2.3B · 2026-10 · Valuation $6.2B