Axelera AI is developing a game-changing hardware and software platform for AI at the edge. Its technology integrates a custom dataflow architecture with multicore in-memory computing to deliver extremely high performance at a power envelope of few watts and flexibility to support multiple networks. Axelera AI was incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020 to develop groundbreaking computing architecture for high-performance AI. Axelera AI was fully launched in 2021, led by a team of experts in AI software and hardware design from top firms and Fortune 500 companies. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI also has offices in Leuven (BE), Zurich (CH) and Pisa (IT).
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Axelera AI Demonstration of the High Performance Achievable with the Metis AIPU
Bram Verhoef, Co-founder of Axelera AI, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Verhoef demonstrates the high computer vision performance that can be achieved with his company’s Metis AIPU. A single Metis AIPU runs at over 200 TOPs and can run computer vision inference […]
Axelera AI Demonstration of Computer Vision Applications Based on the Metis AIPU
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Axelera AI Demonstration of Fast and Efficient Workplace Safety with the Metis AIPU
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Axelera AI Raises $68 Million Series B Funding to Accelerate Next-generation Artificial Intelligence
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“How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision,” a Presentation from Axelera AI
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Axelera Uses oneAPI Construction Kit to Rapidly Enable Open Standards Programming for the Metis AIPU
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Axelera AI Named as CES 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree
Axelera AI, November 22, 2023 – Axelera AI, provider of world’s most powerful and advanced solutions for AI at the Edge, today announced that it has been named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree for its Metis™ AI Platform. This year’s CES Innovation Awards program received a record number of over 3000 submissions. The announcement […]
First Customers Receive World’s Most Powerful Edge AI Solutions from Axelera AI
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2023 Edge AI Technology Report
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Axelera AI Raises $50M to Democratize Edge AI
European start-up establishes itself in the heart of Silicon Valley, secures close to 100 requests for product samples and embarks on aggressive growth trajectory in North America to capitalize on strong customer momentum. Silicon Valley, CA and Eindhoven, NL – May 22, 2023 – Axelera AI, the provider of world’s most powerful and advanced solutions […]
SECO Joins Axelera AI’s Ecosystem as Sole European Developer of Innovative AI Accelerators Based on Metis AI Platform
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Axelera AI Announces Metis AI Platform
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European AI Startup Axelera AI Closes $27 Million Series A
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Axelera AI Announces Successful Testing of Thetis Core Chip
Delivering 40 tera operations per second, the chip is fully optimised for AI edge applications Eindhoven, Netherlands – May 17, 2022 – Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Axelera AI announced it has successfully tested and validated its first chip, the Thetis Core. The Thetis Core, first taped out in December 2021 with the support of imec.IC-link, […]
Transformers in Computer Vision
This technical article was originally published at Axelera AI’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Axelera AI. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been dominant in Computer Vision applications for over a decade. Today, they are being outperformed and replaced by Vision Transformers (ViT) with a higher learning capacity. The fastest ViTs are […]
Multilayer Perceptrons (MLP) in Computer Vision
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Dutch AI Semiconductor Startup Axelera AI Launches With $12 Million Seed Round
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