By Max A. Cherney<\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Oxmiq Labs said on Tuesday that it planned to launch licensable graphics processor tech geared for artificial intelligence data crunching.<\/p>\n
Founded by Intel’s former chief architect, Raja Koduri, Oxmiq said that it has raised $20 million in seed capital to help launch the new GPU intellectual property. The funding round includes investments from angel investors, and corporate strategic investors, including MediaTek, Oxmiq said.<\/p>\n
The company did not disclose its valuation.<\/p>\n
Oxmiq’s GPU technology is capable of scaling from a single core for physical AI applications such as robotics, to thousands of cores that would be useful in a cloud computing company’s data center. The company said it can customize the GPU architecture for specific types of computing.<\/p>\n
“We want to be Arm for the next generation,” Koduri told Reuters.<\/p>\n
The Campbell, California-based company said it was taking a software-first approach to constructing its chip designs and has built a tool to allow software programs written for Nvidia’s CUDA to work on non-Nvidia hardware “without code modification of recompilation.”<\/p>\n
The company said it opted to pursue building intellectual property instead of a complete chip design because it would avoid the high costs. A cutting-edge chip can cost more than $500 million to design.<\/p>\n
At Intel, Koduri oversaw the development of the company’s graphics chips. Koduri has held senior positions at Advanced Micro Devices and Apple.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Max A. Cherney in San Francisco; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Oxmiq Labs said on Tuesday that it planned to launch licensable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32632,49,48,32633,21631,32630,32631,61],"class_list":["post-46849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-angel-investors","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chief-architect","tag-intel","tag-oxmiq-labs","tag-raja-koduri","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}