d-Matrix, a Silicon Valley startup, announced the launch of its first artificial intelligence (AI) chip, designed for services like chatbots and video generators. The company has raised over $160 million in funding, including investments from Microsoft's (MSFT, Financial) venture capital arm. Early samples of the chip are currently being tested by initial customers, with full-scale shipping expected next year.
Based in Santa Clara, California, d-Matrix has not disclosed specific customer names but revealed that Supermicro (SMCI) will sell servers equipped with their chips. The company aims to complement AI chip industry leaders like Nvidia (NVDA), whose chips are used to train AI systems using large datasets. Once the systems are trained, d-Matrix's chips handle numerous requests from end users, a process known as inference.
The d-Matrix chip is specially designed to process a high volume of user requests simultaneously on a single chip, even if users frequently request new responses or adjustments to the AI-generated content.
