Chiplet technology startup Baya Systems has raised more than $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Maverick Silicon and backed by a strategic investment from Synopsys. It also saw participation from current investors, including Matrix Partners and Intel Capital.
Growing AI workloads are driving the need for system-on-chip designs - a single chip containing compute components - to evolve into a chiplet-type design which Baya refers to as a system-of-chip, or a collection of chips that work together. Baya Systems says that by using chiplets, it can better support AI and compute-heavy applications by offering scalable performance, optimized power, and reduced costs, when compared to more traditional approaches.
“Designing increasingly complex combinations of CPUs, GPUs, neural network accelerators and other processors is a brute-force solution that the industry cannot rely on forever. It simply comes with too many risks: high re-engineering costs, difficulty scaling and potentially hitting the market with sub-par metrics,” said Dr. Sailesh Kumar, founder and CEO of Baya Systems. “Baya’s performance-focused, software-based approach, coupled with our unique transport and modular fabric IP, is designed from the ground up to produce complex multi-die solutions that are correct by construction with a simplified design process.”
