baya systemsA chip technology company aiming to accelerate intelligent computing has raised $36 million in funding.
Maverick Silicon led the round, which also included a strategic investment from Synopsys and reinvestment in the company from current investors including Matrix Partners and Intel Capital.
The funding will support business growth and accelerate the development and deployment of the company’s software-driven systems IP technology portfolio for system-on-chip (SoC) designs and the emerging chiplet economy.
As intelligent computing continues to grow, the demand for AI capabilities, more efficient data movement, and computing density is driving the evolution of SoCs toward a “system of a chip” model. By using chiplets, this new approach provides scalable performance, optimized power, and cost savings without relying solely on traditional approaches, which have slowed further progress and increased costs. .
Baya offers modular solutions designed to adapt to changing needs and leverage these benefits in next-generation designs for AI, automotive, and data center infrastructure, while providing solutions such as Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) die-to-die interconnects. It also complies with emerging standards. AI scaling has further accelerated.
“Generative AI and multimodal computing will shift the real challenge from the computing engine to moving and connecting data to truly meet the needs of AI acceleration and scale computing infrastructure and communications performance and efficiency. It clearly shows that we are transitioning,” said Andrew Homan, managing director of the company. Maverick Silicon said in a statement. “The team at Baya Systems is uniquely positioned to fill this critical gap in the industry with WeaverPro, WeaveIP, and other solutions.”
To better support AI and other compute-intensive and data-intensive applications, Baya is designing complex, high-performance, multi-die systems that overcome traditional semiconductor bottlenecks in data movement and scalability. We offer a holistic approach to analyze and build.
Baya’s foundation, WeaverPro software, continues data-driven architecture and micro-architecture development from initial specification to post-silicon tuning with built-in simulation and workload analysis that ensures designs meet KPIs. allows for further improvements.
The comprehensive WeaveIP advanced systems IP portfolio features unique transports, supports custom and standard protocols, and maximizes performance and throughput while minimizing latency, silicon footprint, and power to quickly deliver complex solutions. provided to you.
“Baya Systems is ahead of schedule in building the team, technology and products to realize our vision of solving the semiconductor industry’s high-performance system design challenges,” said Stan Reese, general partner at Matrix Partners. said. statement. “This reveals a much bigger picture for our company. In our view, this new capital injection is necessary to expand our leadership and capitalize on the opportunity.”
With a strong team of entrepreneurial leaders and engineers from companies like Apple, AMD, Arm, Intel, and Qualcomm, and chaired by legendary microprocessor designer Jim Keller, Baya quickly emerged from stealth. , brought its flagship products to market and is now in a position to expand its market share.
“Designing increasingly complex combinations of CPUs, GPUs, neural network accelerators, and other processors is a brute-force solution that the industry can rely on forever. There are simply too many risks, such as the possibility of going to market with an index,” said Sailesh Kumar, Founder and CEO of Baya Systems. “Baya’s performance-driven, software-based approach, combined with our proprietary transport and modular fabric IP, is engineered from the ground up to create precise complex multi-die solutions that can be built with a simplified design process. ”
Baya’s early customers and partners include Tenstorrent, which licensed Baya technology for AI and RISC-V chiplet solutions, as well as yet-to-be-announced partnerships, building on Baya’s traction and global reach. It shows the expansion of reach.
Baya Systems’ technology is chiplet-enabled. This means it can be integrated into systems with large numbers of chips on silicon substrates, solutions that maximize processing power, energy efficiency, and network speed.
The company said it has grown in a targeted and smart manner. Nine months after its founding, Baya completed its first license and product delivery. Since coming out of stealth, Baya has experienced accelerated growth and secured multiple customers and partnerships.
The company has nearly 50 employees and its goal is to quadruple orders and revenue by the end of 2025.
As an inspiration, Baya Systems began with a vision to enable semiconductor system designs to efficiently move into the chiplet era and meet the exponentially growing demands of intelligent computing (CPU, GPU, Tight integration of various computing elements such as accelerators (e.g. accelerators) allows for the diverse computational requirements of AI).
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Co-founders Sailesh Kumar, Eric Norge and Joji Philip previously worked together at NetSpeed and later at Intel, following its acquisition. Intel focused specifically on the Xeon processor family, creating SoC builders and other tools to address the challenges of the time: scaling computing power.
Baya Systems was founded in March 2023 and came out of stealth in June 2024. Baya is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
They uniquely point out that communication bandwidth between compute, memory, and input/output (IO) is a critical bottleneck for advances in AI and other data-intensive computing capabilities, and that existing systems We realized that architecture cannot effectively address this.
The addition of Nandan Nayampally as CCO has enabled the company to think more broadly. Mr. Nayampally’s background at Arm helped propel Arm’s iconic Cortex CPU product line leadership beyond the traditional mobile phone, consumer, and microcontroller worlds. But he also defended Arm’s consistent line of interconnect products, which are now the foundation of data center and automotive businesses. Like his founding team, he clearly recognized the need for a new AI scale that required specialized, high-performance solutions.
Modern architectures require massively parallel and high-bandwidth data movement as well as low-latency, coherent communication within large clusters of CPUs. The Baya Systems team is determined to enable seamless and efficient communication within computing systems to unlock their full potential, the company said.
The company has a legendary chip design executive in Keller as chairman. He is a visionary engineer who believes that the foundation of scale in the AI era is not just specialized computing elements, but the ability to see the big picture of a given system and move data ultra-efficiently. We share the belief that The co-founders met Jim during their concurrent stints at Intel. Mr. Keller also held key roles at companies such as Apple, Tesla, AMD, and various chip-related startups.
A phone conversation between Keller, Tanuja Rao and Kumar set everything in motion. Mr. Keller shared his unwavering belief that the core team’s unique skill set is the unique ability to solve this large-scale problem. The company was able to secure investment, build a world-class team, win its first customers, and deliver high-performance, unique solutions in a short period of time.
“[Keller’s] “A keen eye for innovation and an understanding of market trends have been, and will continue to be, extremely important to us as a company,” the company said.
In terms of competition, Arteris is currently a leading player in the pure on-chip SoC fabric space, and companies such as Arm and some EDA vendors have products that compete with some of Baya’s portfolio.
However, Baya Systems has a unique focus on building a chiplet-enabled fabric from the ground up that integrates transactions from different protocols over the same transport. Baya’s solutions complement existing EDA tool flows as well as products from Arm and EDA vendors.
Some of the largest semiconductor leaders are building technologies similar to our fabric platform in-house, but these technologies are customized to their system architectures and intended for use in a broader market. It has not been commercialized as a product. Baya views these companies as potential partners rather than competitors, as the Baya platform provides a more cost-effective, faster time-to-market solution for many custom and ASIC projects. It is regarded as
The company seeks to partner with organizations that share its philosophy of breaking down barriers in the development of innovative, scalable, and reliable SoC and chiplet systems. Current partners include Tenstorrent, Intel, Blue Cheetah, Open Compute Project, and UCle (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express), and the company actively contributes to and participates in these ecosystems.
Similarly, Baya is also growing its own ecosystem with partners such as CPU, GPU, and NPU processor vendors. EDA companies. DHD and PHY vendors. Foundries and design service houses can all benefit from Baya’s portfolio.
