A scaling crisis in chip design
Semiconductors industry is at a precipice

The world is facing a critical bottleneck in hardware development. While AI software innovation is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, chips still take 3 - 5 years from concept to production.

Designing chips years ahead of the market introduces unbound risk of product fit, excessive bloating, long business cycles, and supply chain uncertainty.

Long business cycles and return on capital
Resource constraints and market uncertainty
Risk of unbound product-market-fit
Rigid supply chains
Traditionally, scaling to market demands meant scaling the workforce. By 2030, more than one million skilled workers will be needed to meet demand in the semiconductor industry.

Driven by a team of semiconductor & AI pioneers

Experts in market needs and customer pain points, delivering proven science and ML solutions.

Leadership team

Faraj Aalaei
Founder
Chairman & CEO
2x IPO as CEO
AT&T Bell Labs
Ehsan Kamalinejad
Co-founder
Chief Technology Officer
AI Lead @ Amazon
Sr ML Scientist @ Apple
PhD, U of Toronto
Simon Sabato
Co-founder
Chief Architect
VP HW @ Lilac/F5
HW Lead @ Google
Principal Eng @ Cisco
UC Berkeley, EE
Stelios Diamantidis
Chief Product Officer
AI Architect @ Synopsys
Founder/CEO @ Globetech
Stanford, EE
Mehdi Daneshpanah
Founding SVP of Engineering
Sr. Dir Eng @ KLA
Applied Scientist @ GE
EECS Ph.D., UConn

Science & business advisors

Amin Saberi, PhD
Science Advisor
Professor, Stanford
Language, Data, Reasoning
2x ACM ToT Awards
Peyman Esfahani, PhD
Science Advisor
Professor, U of Toronto
Control, Optimization, & ML
IEEE, European Control & INFORMS Award
Ant van Rensburg
Business Advisor
President/COO @ Unqork
VP Finance @ Google
Principal @ BCG
Northwestern MBA
Hassan Parsa
Business Advisor
VP Corp Dev @ ARM
50+ Tech Acq/Investments
Columbia MBA
Michael Sanie
Business Advisor
CMO @ Synopsys
VP, MBD @ Cadence
Purdue EE

Members of the Board

Umesh Padval
Managing Partner,
Seligman Ventures
Lip-Bu Tan
CEO, Intel
Shahin Farshchi
Partner, Lux Capital

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We are semiconductor professionals and scientists in mathematics, physics, and computer science — uniting these disciplines with design-forward tools. Join our team to work among the interdisciplinary efforts driving meaningful innovation.