Walter Liu

Scaling AI

Focused on making AI infrastructure radically more efficient and sustainably scalable, by building the worlds densest AI compute platform, integrating innovations across technology, chip and system architecture, software, and datacenter infrastructure

Scintil Photonics is a fabless company developing and commercializing silicon photonic integrated circuits with integrated lasers for AI datacenters. Based on the company’s disruptive SHIP™ process technology, Scintil enables optical interconnects to achieve low-latency, high-density, power-efficiency and ultra-high-speed. Scintil is an international company headquartered in France, with offices in Canada and the United States.

The speed of AI computation doubles every 3.4 months, outpacing what standard semiconductor technologies have left to offer. To accelerate exponential advances in AI across industries, a new paradigm for compute – one that is both faster and highly application-specific - is now required. Salience Labs are building silicon photonic solutions that will solve the challenge the growth in AI presents to both data movement in a world where traditional semiconductor technology can no longer scale to keep pace with innovation. Salience Labs is headquartered in Oxford, UK and funded by a portfolio of investors including Cambridge Innovation Capital, Oxford Sciences Enterprises, Oxford Investment Consultants, Silicon Catalyst, Deeptech Labs and leaders from the global semiconductor industry including former CEO of Dialog Semiconductor Jalal Bagherli and the Goh Family Office in Singapore.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant® is a leader in physical AI, delivering highly efficient processor, sensor and software solutions for speech, audio, sensor and vision processing. With more than 100 million purpose-built Neural Decision Processors and machine learning models deployed, along with billions of MEMS microphones and sensors, Syntiant’s full-stack physical AI platform delivers ultra-low-power, always-on intelligence that can sense, decide and act autonomously in real time. From earbuds to satellites, the company enables advanced edge AI capabilities across a broad range of consumer and industrial applications, connecting the physical and digital worlds X: https://x.com/syntiantcorp YouTube: www.youtube.com/@syntiant

Ayar Labs is transforming AI infrastructure by accelerating data movement. Recognizing that the complexity and size of AI models are increasing at a rate that traditional interconnect technology cannot handle, the company has developed the industry’s first co-packaged optics (CPO) solution that enables customers to maximize the compute efficiency and performance of growing AI infrastructure, while reducing costs, latency and power consumption. Based on open standards and optimized for both AI training and inference, Ayar Labs’ optical I/O solution is backed by a robust ecosystem that enables it to integrate smoothly into AI systems at scale.

TXOne Networks provides solutions for tackling security weaknesses prevalent across industrial environments. We listen to the needs of both leading manufacturers and critical infrastructure operators to develop the best actionable approach within partnering companies. The result is customized technology that goes beyond traditional security tools to mitigate complex challenges. Given the ICS environments are layered and composed of a variety of equipment in different operating systems, TXOne Networks offers both network-based and endpoint-based products to secure the OT network and mission critical devices in a real-time defense-in-depth manner. Both IT and OT can have comprehensive visibility regarding the ICS assets, protocols, control commands, risks, and threats. The goal is not only to maximize ICS protection, but also to keep the business and operation running even when security is being breached in some way.

Incorporated in 2021, Chipletz is a fabless substrate vendor developing advanced packaging technology that bridges the gap between the slowing of Moores Law and the rising demand for compute performance. The companys Smart Substrate™ products facilitate multiple ICs in a single package for critical AI workloads, immersive consumer experiences, and high-performance computing. Chipletz is targeting delivery of its initial products to its customers and partners in early 2023.

Founded in 2020 by a team of veterans in Silicon Valley, our mission is to accelerate AI computing in data centers and HPC by introducing high performance, power efficient, scalable and cost effective interconnect solutions. AI computing and data center architectures are undergoing a fundamental transformation of disaggregation and composability, driven by the enablement of CXL (Computing Express Link) technology. The founders of XConn Technologies realized this vision from early on. We intend to have our product undertaking this important piece of the puzzle in the CXL ecosystem. We are well funded. Our team members have multiple years of experience in the data center interconnect and switching field.

Ventana delivers the highest performance RISC-V CPUs with extensible instruction set capability delivered in the form of multi-core chiplets or core IP for high-performance applications in the cloud, enterprise data center, hyperscaler, 5G, edge compute, AI/ML and automotive markets. The well-funded start-up, founded by seasoned industry veterans, is currently hiring experienced professionals with backgrounds in Computer Hardware, spanning Architecture, Logic Design, Design Verification, and Performance Analysis and Tuning.

Mauna Kea Semiconductors (MKsemi), the leading low power ultra-wideband (UWB) company, provides a complete location and direction-finding solution for device OEMs and ODMs. Founded by UWB pioneers, the company makes the world’s lowest power and highest performing solution and technologies to enable rapid design, highest integration, and product deployment. MKSemi is backed by Oppo, Lightspeed Ventures, and several other tier-one investors worldwide. Its next-generation location solutions are currently being integrated into smartphones, tag/tracker, and are poised to dramatically bolster consumer and industrial IoT applications ranging from smart homes, smart cities to automobiles and health/medical devices

Tensor is an American AI company dedicated to building agentic products that empower individual consumers. Our flagship product, the Tensor Robocar, is the world’s first personal Robocar and the first AI agentic vehicle—fully autonomous, automotive-grade, and built for private ownership at scale. With native support for L0–L4 autonomy and a true Dual Mode design, you can choose to drive or be driven, enhanced by a foldable steering wheel and sliding display. Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, Tensor is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in Barcelona, Singapore, and Dubai. At Tensor, we champion personal AI autonomy and ownership. Our vision is to build a future where everyone owns their own Artificial General Intelligence—a personal AGI that enables more time, freedom, and autonomy. We’re forging an alternative path where AGI serves only you, and is controlled solely by you. To those who share this vision: Own Your Autonomy.

AutoX offers Data-Driven Dealer Solutions that drive customer retention and increase Lifetime Value throughout your branded ecosystem. We help dealers target sales and service return toward new and existing customers using leading-edge data analytics tools. We use data because we care about what people actually do, not what they say they do. Our retention solution gives you access to information about your customers that other offline solutions don't offer, meaningful communication with your customers that keep them connected to your brand. See what AutoX can do to increase your retention rate AND your bottom line. Visit our website to find out more.

At AutoX, we are hard at work building the most advanced self-driving cars to accelerate the advent of fully driverless cars. If you love solving the most intellectually inspiring engineering challenges, come and join us! Be part of the X-men and X-women team. Let's bring driverless cars to the world. Learn more about us at: www.autox.ai Join us: http://www.autox.ai/en/careers.html Check our videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/AutoXai

Ambiq® was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of pioneering ultra-low power technology, innovative companies around the world are developing differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, reduce overall system power and maximize industrial design flexibility. Our mission is to enable intelligence (artificial intelligence (AI) and beyond) everywhere by delivering the lowest power semiconductor solutions. We enable our customers to deliver artificial intelligence compute at the edge where power consumption challenges are the most profound. Our technology innovations, built on the patented and proprietary subthreshold power optimized technology (SPOT), fundamentally deliver a multi-fold improvement in power consumption over traditional semiconductor designs. We’ve powered over 270 million devices today. As we see the shift in devices move from “smart” to “AI,” our technology and solutions have evolved to accommodate the power requirements needed to enable feature rich devices that are always on, high performing, secure, accurate, energy efficient, and just as important practical. Our leadership in powering devices made for edge AI has helped technology innovators across wearable, smart home and buildings, industrial, healthcare, and other sectors deliver intelligent devices that can do more while consuming less. For more information, visit www.ambiq.com.

Scaling AI

Focused on making AI infrastructure radically more efficient and sustainably scalable, by building the worlds densest AI compute platform, integrating innovations across technology, chip and system architecture, software, and datacenter infrastructure

Scintil Photonics is a fabless company developing and commercializing silicon photonic integrated circuits with integrated lasers for AI datacenters. Based on the company’s disruptive SHIP™ process technology, Scintil enables optical interconnects to achieve low-latency, high-density, power-efficiency and ultra-high-speed. Scintil is an international company headquartered in France, with offices in Canada and the United States.

The speed of AI computation doubles every 3.4 months, outpacing what standard semiconductor technologies have left to offer. To accelerate exponential advances in AI across industries, a new paradigm for compute – one that is both faster and highly application-specific - is now required. Salience Labs are building silicon photonic solutions that will solve the challenge the growth in AI presents to both data movement in a world where traditional semiconductor technology can no longer scale to keep pace with innovation. Salience Labs is headquartered in Oxford, UK and funded by a portfolio of investors including Cambridge Innovation Capital, Oxford Sciences Enterprises, Oxford Investment Consultants, Silicon Catalyst, Deeptech Labs and leaders from the global semiconductor industry including former CEO of Dialog Semiconductor Jalal Bagherli and the Goh Family Office in Singapore.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant® is a leader in physical AI, delivering highly efficient processor, sensor and software solutions for speech, audio, sensor and vision processing. With more than 100 million purpose-built Neural Decision Processors and machine learning models deployed, along with billions of MEMS microphones and sensors, Syntiant’s full-stack physical AI platform delivers ultra-low-power, always-on intelligence that can sense, decide and act autonomously in real time. From earbuds to satellites, the company enables advanced edge AI capabilities across a broad range of consumer and industrial applications, connecting the physical and digital worlds X: https://x.com/syntiantcorp YouTube: www.youtube.com/@syntiant