On April 26, 2022, incubator Silicon Catalyst admitted Salience Labs to its program. Silicon Catalyst strives to help startups thrive in the semiconductor industry by creating an ecosystem that lowers design and fabrication costs for silicon ICs, sensors, and microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices.
Researchers at Salient Labs are currently developing photonic computing solutions. The company hopes to meet the growing need for AI hardware by rethinking and redesigning semiconductor chip architecture.
Salience Labs includes a team of engineers, physicists, and programmers who launched the startup in 2021. The researchers are currently prototyping a chip that harnesses the capabilities of light (photonics) to execute operations. The team has designed this ultra-high-throughput tensor processing chip to improve processing performance and accelerate advances in AI.
The technology from Salience Labs is a product of several decades of research from institutions including the University of Münster, the University of Oxford, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Exeter, École Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL), and IBM Research, Europe. Salience Labs recently raised $11.5 million seed for its multi-chip AI processor.
