SK Hynix

Today’s explosive data growth and rapidly expanding application workloads threaten to overwhelm datacenters, preventing organizations from harnessing AI/ML, 5G, big data analytics, IoT, and other modern applications they need to achieve their business goals. Accelerating these data-hungry, storage-intensive applications requires more application speed, storage capacity, data efficiency, and scalability than most organizations can afford, no matter how many CPUs and SSDs they add, or how much they expand their datacenter footprint. Just as GPUs overcome processing inefficiencies to accelerate artificial intelligence and advanced analytics performance, the breakthrough Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) overcomes storage inefficiencies to massively accelerate performance and dramatically reduce overall infrastructure costs for databases, analytics, and machine learning. Delivered on an easy-to-deploy, low-profile PCIe card, the Pliops XDP radically simplifies the way data is processed and flash storage is managed. The result is an exponential increase in performance, reliability, capacity, and efficiency— multiplying the effectiveness of organizations’ infrastructure investments.

NeuReality is a semiconductor start-up that designs AI-as-a-service infrastructure. It addresses the challenges posed by the growing deployment of AI in the cloud, edge, and fog systems.

D-Matrix is a computing platform that targets artificial intelligence inferencing workloads in the datacenter. Its mission is to build and deploy the world’s first brain-inspired AI compute engine for a broad class of inferencing workloads in the multi-billion dollar cloud and infrastructure edge markets.

Elastics.cloud, Inc. is a Smart Interconnect technology company focused on enabling efficient and performant architectures to create flexible, scalable, low latency composable systems. The company provides silicon, hardware, and software which leverages the Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect standard to provide high-performance connectivity to a broad ecosystem of components.

Movellus develops process portable and ultra-low power analog IPs. Its roducts include PLLs, DLLs, and LDOs, that are optimized per design.

Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, GigaIO democratizes AI and HPC architectures by delivering the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). With its universal dynamic infrastructure fabric, FabreX™, and its innovative open architecture using industry-standard PCI Express/soon CXL technology, GigaIO breaks the constraints of the server box, liberating resources to shorten time to results. Data centers can scale up or scale out the performance of their systems, enabling their existing investment to flex as workloads and business change over time. For more information, contact info@gigaio.com or visit www.gigaio.com.

FMC is the provider of extremely efficient FeFET memory solutions for non-volatile storage. FeFET is ultra-low-power, high-performance, very dense, and extremely temperature stable. It will scale to transistor sizes ranging from 28nm to 5nm and below. The FMC team has been supported by “EXIST Forschungstransfer”, a program of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The company is based in Dresden, Germany.FMC commercializes a disruptive material innovation that will solve this problem for current and future technology nodes, i.e. eNVM based on ferroelectric hafnium oxide (FE-HfO2). The unexpected physical effect of ferroelectricity in HfO2 allows for the transformation of classical high-k metal-gate (HKMG) transistors into nonvolatile ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET). In this way, MCUs can easily be scaled from e.g. 65 nm down to 28 nm and beyond enabling tremendous advantages for the overall system: SoC cost reduction of around 80%, per bit write energy reduction by a factor of 1000 and an overall performance gain of the system of around 70% due to the transition to advanced process nodes. Due to the close relation of FeFET and CMOS baseline, there is no roadblock for FMC’s technology to be applied to cutting-edge technology nodes like 22 nm FDSOI, 1X nm FinFET and beyond.

Intel NAND Memory Business handles manufacturing and design patents of flash-memory products. Intel NAND Memory Business includes the NAND SSD, the NAND component, and wafer business, and the Dalian NAND memory manufacturing facility in China. Intel NAND Memory Business was acquired by SK hynix for US $9 billion.

Gauss Labs aims to revolutionize manufacturing by building industrial AI systems beyond human capabilities.

SiFive designs chips for the semiconductor industry. It offers the system on a chip for the microcontroller, embedded, IoT, and wearable applications; and toolset to provide debug capabilities. SiFive brings the power of open source and software automation to the semiconductor industry, making it possible to develop new hardware faster and more affordably than ever before. With the platform for designing, testing, and building RISC‑V-based core IP and chips, they’re accelerating the pace of innovation for businesses large and small.

MemVerge is delivering the world’s first Memory-Converged Infrastructure (MCI) system, built with proprietary Distributed Memory Objects (DMO) technology. DMO technology provides a logical convergence layer that harnesses Intel’s new Optane DC persistent memory to let data-centric workloads run flawlessly at memory speed.

Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metal oxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing.

Horizon Robotics is a leading provider of ADAS and AD solutions for passenger vehicles with proprietary software and hardware. Our solutions combine cutting-edge algorithms, purpose-built software and state-of-the-art processing hardware, providing the core technologies for assisted and autonomous driving that enhance the safety and experience of drivers and passengers.

Zettastone is engaged in solid-state storage technology based on flash memory chips. They provide solutions for PC manufacturers, financial and other industrial control fields, data centers, industrial automation, transportation, medical treatment, and telecommunications.

TidalScale has developed a scale-up compute and resource architecture. It specializes in the fields of analytics, cloud infrastructure, information technology, software and data mining. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Campbell, California.

Starblaze is a company that manufactures consumer and enterprise SSD master chips. The company's independently developed high-performance and low-power NVMe SSD master controller has been mass-produced and shipped, as has the firmware solution, which has supported many well-known Brand manufacturers who have launched high-performance NVMe SSDs. They also provide four different sets of solutions: STAR1200C, a high-performance, low-power consumption NVMe solution; OC SSD, a data center solution based on a customized Open-Channel interface; STAR1200E, a low-power, high-performance NVMe enterprise-level solution; and DeepSSD products based on AI storage master control, enabling KV storage applications in the monitoring market.

Reno Sub-Systems, to our longtime semiconductor friends, colleagues and customers around the world. The founding of Reno has been a very gratifying challenge which has brought together many of the best and brightest minds in the field of Semiconductor Process Equipment Instrumentation. At a time when industry consolidation and the tightening of venture capital poses a serious threat to new business formation, the founders of Reno have demonstrated the incredible power of inventing world-class technologies to enable next generation processes. With three brand new and highly disruptive technologies, we are creating a paradigm shift in the industry. At Reno, we believe there is unlimited potential for new discoveries and innovative thinking. As we move forward into the 450mm era, Reno stands at the summit of semiconductor process control equipment technology, ready to set the standards for product performance, worldwide customer support and customer satisfaction.

Exnodes detects 20 nanometer defects at 120 wafers per hour to maximize yield of computer chips. To license Exnodes technology and patents for your next generation product, please write to us at onboard@exnodes.com Using an 8.9 nanometer sensitivity breakthrough with visible light, computational parallel inspection (CPI) enables unpatterned wafer inspection without the baggage of DUV. While standard methods rely on brute force increasing of scattered signal levels with shorter wavelengths, CPI rethinks nanoscale defect detection with information theory and maximizes sensitivity by leveraging the maturity and gentleness of visible light. Exnodes is made possible by world’s leading semiconductor companies and by inventors, builders and nurturers determined to make the nanoscale accessible for all of us.

NetSpeed Systems provides scalable, coherent, Network-on-Chip (NoC) IPs to System-on-chip (SoC) designers for a wide range of markets from mobile to high-performance computing and networking. NetSpeed's NoC IPs deliver significant time-to-market advantages through system level approach, high level of user-driven automation and state-of-the-art algorithms. NetSpeed Systems was founded in 2011 and is led by seasoned executives from the semiconductor and networking industries. The company is funded by top-tier investors from the silicon valley.

Stratio, Inc. was founded in 2013 with the mission to bring infrared sensing to the mass market. We created the world's first germanium-based shortwave infrared (SWIR) sensor, enabling portable, affordable and versatile infrared device creation. Today, we design, develop and manufacture portable spectrometers (LinkSquare®) and infrared cameras (BeyonSense®). Our partners and customers use Stratio's devices worldwide to increase process efficiency, fight counterfeiting, ensure food safety and promote precision agriculture. Continuing our efforts to innovate infrared sensing, Stratio is committed to develop Hyper-Spectral Imaging (HSI) solutions in the near future.

Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD) is the new leader in developing and manufacturing custom System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions for peripheral data storage devices, which include hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state-drives (SSDs). The SoC solution integrates the Read/Write Channel, disk controller functions, microprocessor(s) and memories, and servo processing for HDD application on a single chip.