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ThinkSilicon at Open Coffee Athens XCIV
1. Think Silicon presented on their new low-power neural network inference accelerator chip, the NEMA GPU, which can enable real-time AI processing at the edge with weeks of battery life. 2. They discussed moving from designing micro-GPUs to focus on the NEMA inference accelerator, which combines GPU performance with their low-power technologies to enable applications in areas like video analytics and edge devices. 3. Key takeaways included continuing to listen to customers, applying for patents, investing in sales and marketing, widening their team and giving shares to key people, and talking to investors while staying focused.
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- 1. Open Coffee Athens#94, Feb 23 2018 Ultra Low-power 3D micro-GPUs & AI - Inference Accelerator
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- 7. Architecture Limitations GPUs builtfor smartphones/tablets are • Expensive • Power Hungry
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- 11. NEMA GPUs Launched 2017 PowerConsumption / Chip level GFXPerformance/Chiplevel Tape Out 2017 Launch 2018
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- 13. Weeks of BatteryLife
- 14. Research Patents Sales Marketing 19 engineers, 2marketing, 4 sales, 1 solution architect 40% of the engineering team hold a bachelor degree, 40% a masters and 20% a Phd from top 20 schools. Technology Products Team(1) George CEO, co-founder Iakovos CTO, co-founder Ulli marketing/sales George CSO
- 15. Advisory Board Sales Channel RegionSales Rep Experience North America Roger Milton vp of Sales at MIPS (US) EMEA Stefan Buechmann vp of Sales at MIPS (EMEA), Product sales Mgr at Synopsys Taiwan Grace Lin Taiwan Country Manager at MIPS, Sr Manager at Infineon Japan Christos Makiyama Japan Business Development Director at Helic Gideon Intrader vp Marketing of MIPS Technologies CTO of Adesto Stefanos Sidiropoulos Founder/CEO of Aeluros acquired by NetLogic Founder/CEO of nusemi acquired by Cadence Team(2)
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- 17. STAGE INVESTORS AMOUNT Seed1.0 Self funded $ 0.1M Seed 1.1 Self, Public funds (GR, EU grants) $3.0M (A) First Round (active) Investor(s) $4M Equity: 61% owned by company founders | 39% owned by employees, private affiliates, advisors | No investors Call Project Partners Phase-2 Microelectronics ThinkVG TSi FP7-ICT-2011-7 LPGPU Codeplay, TUB, Geomerics H2020-ICT-2015 LPGPU2 Samsung, Codeplay, TUB H2020-SMEINST-2-2015 GPU-WEAR TSi Funding
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- 19. TRAINING Learning new capabilities formexisting data Untrained Neural Network Trained Neural Network • New Capabilities • Performance Optimized Trained NN Model NEW TRAINING DATASET INFERENCE Applying trained behavior to new data NEW DATA INPUT Artificial Intelligence
- 20. EDGE Billions of Devices FOGNodes Millions of Devices CLOUD Thousands of Devices TRAINING INFERENCE INFERENCE Artificial Intelligence
- 21. NO LOW-POWER INFERENCEON THE EDGE: HIGH ENERGY Device battery runs out due to transmission power HIGH LATENCY Response-requests over a network cannot work for streaming data LOW PRIVACY The data must leave the device LIMITED AVAILABILITY Cannot run outside network coverage Challenges
- 22. Think Silicon ismoving to the AI developing the most power efficient Inference Accelerator. Existing technology, patents, work flow and core team are the foundation of this new development. The revolutionary Inference xNN Accelerator (IxNN®) combines the performance of a GPU with Think Silicon low power technology bringing real time inference on the edge NEMA Inference Accelerator
- 23. AI Camera DeviceMarket Video Analytics – Cameras Wearables, Drones, Robots, Toys, E-Scooter, AR-Glasses etc. ENERGY Cautious Patented Technology for: Compression, Data reuse, Approximate computing LOW LATENCY A revolutionary real-time inference accelerator reduces reliance with the cloud HIGH PERFORMANCE Massive Parallel execution, fast MAC operations , Memory latency hiding HIGH PRIVACY Local inference reduces data communication with the cloud NEMA Inference Accelerator
- 24. Technology: Listen to yourcustomers Apply for patents Business: Invest in Sales Be in front of you customers Team: Widen your team Give shares to key people Funding Talk to investors Stay focused Key takeaways
- 25. www.think-silicon.com HQ & DC PatrasScience Park Rion Achaias, 26504 Greece T. + 30 2610 911543 info@think-silicon.com North America Ulli Mueller Toronto / Canada T. +1 647.824.2006 u.mueller@think-silicon.com Sales Roger Milton North America / San Jose, CA T. +1 408.677.6070 r.milton@think-silicon.com Sales Stefan Buechmann EMEA / Germany T. +49 170.636.5370 s.buechmann@think-silicon.com Sales Christos Makiyama Japan / Tokyo T. +81 90.9854.1132 c.makiyama@think-silicon.com Sales Grace Lin Taiwan / Taipei T. +886. 9630.31076 g.lin@think-silicon.com