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Established in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with additional offices in the United States and India, the company develops silicon-based, energy-efficient AI processors purpose-built for Generative AI workloads at the edge. The company’s patented hardware-software co-design methodology enables highly efficient runtime-reconfigurable AI accelerators, delivering industry-leading performance-per-watt for edge inference across defense, aerospace, smart cities, Industry 4.0, robotics and telecommunications applications.\nThe Team\nAs an engineering driven company we are working to define and solve the hardest problems at the intersection of AI, semiconductors and scalable systems across the edge computing landscape. We originated out of multiple years of research, as such at our core we value learning, intellectual curiosity, and self-starters. 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