MatX, ikkita sobiq Google apparat muhandislari tomonidan asos solingan chip startapi, a ko'tardi $500 million Jeyn Street va Vaziyatdan xabardorlik boshchiligidagi B seriyali moliyalashtirish bosqichi, sobiq OpenAI tadqiqotchisi Leopold Aschenbrenner tomonidan tuzilgan investitsiya fondi.
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Turdagi boshqa investorlar orasida Marvell Technology mavjud, NFDG, Spark Capital, va Stripe hammuassislari Patrik Kollison va Jon Kollison, startap asoschisi va bosh direktori, Reyner Pop,e seshanba kuni LinkedIn postida e'lon qilindi.
Garchi kompaniya o'zining so'nggi bahosini oshkor qilmagan bo'lsa-da, Bloomberg o'tgan oy Etched haqida xabar bergan edi, MatX ning eng yaqin raqobatchisi, ko'targan a $500 million turda a $5 milliard baho. Etched didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
MatX’s latest round comes just over a year after its roughly $100 million Series A, which was led by Spark Capital. TechCrunch previously reported that the 2024 round valued the startup at over $300 million.
Before co-founding MatX in 2023, Pope led AI software development for Google’s TPUs, the tech giant’s proprietary AI chips. His co-founder, Mike Gunter, was a lead designer of the TPU hardware before leaving to launch the startup.
The new funding will help MatX produce its chips with TSMC, with plans to start shipping them in 2027.