Cognichip emerges from stealth with the goal of using generative AI to develop new chips

The chips are a critical part of the AI ​​industry. However, new plugs do not market the same speed with new AI models and products.

Cognicip There is a high purpose to create a foundation AI model that can help bring new chips to the market faster.

San Francisco Based by Cognicip, the semiconductor companies are working to build a physics informative foundation AI model that can be used to speed up the development process of new plugs. The company calls this approach “artificial chip intelligence” and hopes that the chip can help you accelerate and reduce the costs of accelerating production.

This ambitious idea comes from Veteran Faraj Aalaei, a semiconductor industry, which works in various companies, including Fujitsu Network communication and Sententism.

Aalaei told Techcrunch that the company’s origin’s story begins in 2015.

He worried what happened in the semiconductor industry. In 2000, in 2000 in 2000 in 2000 in 2000 in 2000 in 2000 a report on the fall of the person investing in the semiconductor companies in 2000 or two or two.

“I very much warned other cheeses that this could not be good for us,” he said. “America cannot be good for the semiconductor industry, and the work in this regard. If this trend continues, we will lose our competitiveness.” We will lose the energy that brings new ideas on the table. “

Considering how much the new chips to come to the market, it is not surprising that these companies are not involved in the initiative investors. Then he sat in his mind for almost ten years.

Continued to find Canda enterprises In 2016 and this fund, it began to watch the beginning of the AI. When the progress in the Generative AI understands that the progress can be used to solve the existing problems of the semiconductor industry, he decided to launch Cognicip in 2024.

Cognicip, from that time, consists of a team consisting of a team consisting of AI specialists from places such as Stanford, Google and MIT. Aaleei said he would take at least a few years to build a model “final performance”, but he said he could help companies before it reached.

“When this is reached this point, we will establish a system that can act as an artificial chip intelligence and specialist engineer,” he said. “Once once reaching this vision, you can actually get the same thing with part of the people and in a short time.”

Cognicip is currently secretly in secret with Lux Capital and Mayfield with the participation of FPV and Candou Ventures in a secret way with $ 33 million.

In Mayfield, the control partner Navin Chaddha felt the “cut the same piece” when presented to Aalaei in Techcrunch. The vast majority of great work in the semiconductor industry is still carried out by people; He said he thinks that time is the right to bring the EI to a blend.

“This is the basic painpoint, and this solution will not be a vitamin for the semiconductor industry,” Chaddha said. “If you do not work, a large team, a large team, the second, where there is a lack of talent [they are] To resolve the real pain point of a massive, trillion dollar industry. “

Aalaei, Cognicip, said that the more semiconductor companies can help to build plugs to start investing and dry investment. According to him, it means easier access to small companies, or can build a more concrete chips for smaller models.

All this can reach an artificial chip intelligence of the company when or whenever.

“What we do is not some growing change,” said Aaleei. “We do not set up [electronic design automation] The vehicle, we do not try to bathe the process a little. We try to put a new goal for our industry and bring some great changes. “