Insights from Hassan Toorabally, CIO of ArchiTek, interviewed by AIN Founding Member, Thierry Warin.
About the company
Architek is a Japanese R&D venture which wants to make AI affordable and mainstream by addressing cost, power, versatility and programming capabilities required by the diversity of AI solutions.
| Headquarters | Osaka, Japan |
| Founded in | 2011 |
| Founder | Shuichi Takada |
| Number of employees | 6 |
Investment details
| Total funding amount | ¥980M (~USD 9mn) |
| Number of investors | 6 |
| Lead investor | Mirai Creation Fund |
| Series A of funding (2018) | ¥500M |
| Series B of funding (2020) | ¥480M |
The Intelligence Engine
“The ArchiTek AiOnIc® processor featuring ArchiTek aIPE offers support for different algorithms by dynamically rebalancing hardware use, combining the advantages of CPUs, GPUs, and dedicated LSIs” said Shuichi Takada, CEO & CTO of ArchiTek.
In March 2021, ArchiTek along with SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and custom silicon solutions, announced ArchiTek’s first in-house developed AI processor, AiOnIc, featuring the ArchiTek Intelligence® Pixel Engine (aIPE), and SiFive E3-Series RISC-V processor Core IP. The ArchiTek AiOnIc® chip is developed to demonstrate an edge AI concept of processing sensor data in real-time to create meta-data for reduced latency of AI inference processing while offering increased security and privacy.