India’s Netrasemi raises funds for edge AI processors
Netrasemi Pvt Ltd. (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India) has raised 100 million rupees (about US$1.2 million) in seed round of funding to build system chips aimed at edge AI.
Netrasemi was founded in 2020 by Jyothis Indirabhai, Sreejith Varma and Deepa Geetha and the funding round was led by Unicorn India Ventures.
The company has 61 staff and is already profitable based on chip design and porting services that it offers to customers. It has said it would use the latest funds to develop a series of machine learning system-on-chips – the Netra A2000, the Netra A4000 and the Netra R1000.
The chips are intended to perform AI-based analytics close to the source of data in medical, telecom and industrial segments.
The A2000 is optimized for vision applications, the A4000 is aimed at more demanding vision applications such as autonomous vehicles and robotics. It includes both an ARM CPU and a neural processing unit. The R1000 is optimized for sensor applications with a RISC-V CPU and the NPU supported by a set of peripherals.
Netrasemi did not indicate what manufacturing process node it will target for its SoCs.
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