Ascenium筹集了1600万美元，用于下一代软件定义的处理器
US-Norwegian processor startup Ascenium has raised $16m (€13.5m) for a new type of software defined general-purpose architecture for data centre applications.
The $16m Series A investment comes from Ascenium Holding AS, a private investment holding company in Stavanger, Norway and brings the total investment to $25m. The cash will be used to grow its teams in California, Stavaner and Oslo, Norway for the chip and compiler development.
Ascenium is led by Pete Foley, who previously co-founded Wave Computing which took a similar approach to data flow processing for AI. Blaize has a similar approach, again for, AI where the processor elements are configured by a sophisticated compiler.
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Ascenium’s Aptos architecture is instead aimed at software configurable general purpose processing to reduce the power consumption in the data centre and at the same time provide the highest single threaded, single core performace. Ascenium holds nine granted patents and has filed six provisional patents covering all aspects of the Aptos hardware and software.
该公司成立于2019年6月，经过十多年的基础研究，用于使用现代LLVM编译器技术直接控制一系列简单的计算元素，以通过利用标准高级编程语言可用的并行性来提供低功率的灵活性和高性能。。APTOS微体系结构在直接编译器控制下不断地物理演变，以最佳实施程序的功能。
Several startups are pursuing similar architectural approaches, but the efficiency and reliability of the compiler remains an issue, and the backing will help boost the Ascentium compiler team.
“We’re grateful that our technical innovation and progress in meeting our business milestones have excited and emboldened our investors,” said Pete Foley, CEO of Ascenium. “This capital infusion enables us to expand our team and accelerate our next stage of development — bringing our industry-changing low-power, high-performance Aptos processor to the market.”
“我们认为，具有根本新方法的Aptos技术代表了通用计算的量子飞跃，既可以进行一般绩效，尤其是每单位能源完成的计算工作量，” Ascenium Holding的首席执行官Espen Fjogstad说。Stavanger Venture AS。
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