Kinara (company)
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2013 |
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| Headquarters | , |
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| Products | Ara-1, Ara-2 |
| Website | kinara |
Kinara is an American semiconductor company that develops AI processors for machine learning applications.
History
[edit]Kinara was founded in 2013 by Rehan Hameed, Wajahat Qadeer and Jason Copeland[1] as CoreViz.[2] The company was rebranded as Deep Vision, and raised[3] $35M in a series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management.[4] In 2022 Deep Vision rebranded as Kinara.[5] The company has a development base in Hyderabad, India.[6]
Kinara has partnerships with NXP Semiconductors[7] and Arcturus Networks.[8] In December 2023 they began a collaboration with Ampere and Mirasys. Kinara is a member of the AI Platform Alliance which is led by Ampere and is made up of 8 other companies.[9] In April 2023, Kinara announced a partnership with ENERZAi, a company that offers technology to compress AI models.[10]
Kinara has a partnership with Awiros, which showed its first results in January 2023 at the Consumer Technology Association’s CES annual trade show.[11]
Products
[edit]In 2020, the company announced its first product, the Ara-1 Edge AI Processor.[12] The product uses a polymorphic dataflow architecture.[13] The Ara-2 was launched in December 2023 and is 5 to 8 times faster than its predecessor.[14][15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kinara Overview". pitchbook.com. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ "Kinara Overview". Pitchbook. 2022-11-01.
- ^ "AI semiconductor firm Deep Vision raises $35 mn in Series B funding". Business Today. 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ "AI semiconductor firm Deep Vision raises $35 mn in Series B funding". Business Today. 2021-09-20.
- ^ Dahad, Nitin (2022-08-26). "embedded news: Hot Chips, face authentication at IFA, and more". Embedded.
- ^ Clarke, Peter (2022-08-25). "Chip industry veteran Segers joins edge AI firm Kinara". eeNews Europe. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ Evans, Scarlett (2022-10-26). "IoT Deals and Partnerships: Nokia, Aeris and more". IOT Today.
- ^ "Kinara and Arcturus Networks partner to provide AI solutions for smart city apps". Help Net Security. 2022-09-16.
- ^ "Kinara Forms Collaborations with Ampere and Mirasys to Drive Widespread Adoption of AI Solutions". Yahoo Finance. 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ Rogerson, Steve (2023-04-26). "Kinara and Enerzai deliver intelligence at edge". IoT M2M Council. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
- ^ "Kinara and Awiros Partnership to Provide High Performance AI Video Applications". www.businesswire.com. 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (2020-11-16). "Deep Vision announces its low-latency AI processor for the edge". TechCrunch.
- ^ Maxfield, Max (2020-12-24). "Say Hello to Deep Vision's Polymorphic Dataflow Architecture". EE Journal.
- ^ "Kinara Aims Its Tiny Ara-2 Processor at Big Generative Edge AI Workloads". allaboutcircuits.com. 2023-12-12. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ "Kinara Eyes GenAI With 6-W Edge Chip". eetimes.com. 20 December 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
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