EdgeCortix Inc., a Japan-based edge artificial intelligence (AI) fabless semiconductor development and design company, has recently closed a $20 million (approximately ¥3 billion) funding round led by Japan’s foremost venture capital (VC) firm SBI Investment Co. Ltd. and Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC). The company’s suite of proprietary software and AI chip products accelerate AI inference tasks for computer vision, natural language processing and generative AI applications, at very low power and low latency, across the complex world of systems operating outside of typical data centers. EdgeCortix aims to democratize access to machine learning solutions by solving the fundamental problem of delivering near cloud-level AI performance at the edge while achieving over ten times better performance and energy efficiency versus conventional GPUs, CPUs and other commonly used processors.
