SimpleMachines, Inc. Debuts First-of-its-Kind High Performance Chip

Revolutionary Future-Proof Design Disrupts AI Space by Running Multiple Workloads Simultaneously and is Faster Than Any Chip on the Market

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — As traditional chip makers struggle to embrace the challenges presented by the rapidly evolving AI software landscape, a San Jose startup has announced it has working silicon and a whole new future-proof chip paradigm to address these issues. 

The SimpleMachines, Inc. (SMI) team – which includes leading research scientists and industry heavyweights formerly of Qualcomm, Intel and Sun Microsystems – has created a first-of-its-kind easily programmable, high-performance chip that will accelerate a wide variety of AI and machine-learning applications. The chip, Mozart, is a TSMC 16-nanometer design that utilizes HBM2 memory and is sampling as a standard PCIe card. Initial results have shown significant speedups across a broad set of AI applications, unlike other specialized AI chips. Examples include recommendation engines, speech and language processing, and image detection, all of which can run simultaneously.

Mozart is the result of 10 years of research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that included several high-profile papers and awards. The research was led by SMI’s Founder, CEO and CTO Karu Sankaralingam, also a computer science professor at UW. 

The working chip demonstrates that a clean-slate design can deliver the performance of custom-built single purpose processors while maintaining flexibility and programmability. The chip’s software interface includes direct TensorFlow support as well as API’s for C/C++ and Python.  Future generations of the chip will leverage its unique architecture to scale up and down the power spectrum from enterprise-class high-performance systems to 5-watt IoT devices.

Mozart will be available via a PCIe card called Accelerando, or via the Symphony Cloud Service (SMI’s hosted cloud service with easy access to public clouds like Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS).

“Mozart is an extremely complex chip, one of the few using HBM2 (high-bandwidth memory) for this type of application,” Sankaralingam said. “It took our silicon team under a week from having the chip in-house to running applications on the device, putting us on the fast track to take our first silicon (A0) to production.”

Unlike many of the new chips that have been designed for single workloads like image processing, Mozart’s strength is in its ability to adapt on the fly and accelerate a wide variety of workloads across a diverse range of industries and applications, including image detection, image classification, natural language processing, language translation, network security, recommendation engines, graph processing, drug discovery, and gene sequence alignment.

“The chip’s design can support very large models today and is capable of running up to 64 different models simultaneously,” said Greg Wright, SMI’s Chief Architect. “Our next-generation 7-nanometer design is expected to be ready to sample by the end of 2021 and will be 20x faster on a diverse set of workloads than current chips.”

Mozart’s architecture leverages the concept of Composable Computing, which abstracts any software application into a small number of defined behaviors. SMI’s novel compiler integrates into the backend of standard AI frameworks like TensorFlow to translate those programs and reconfigures the hardware on the fly to result in a chip that behaves as if it were originally designed for that application.

“SimpleMachines’ solution is a radically new software-centric approach that deploys a programmable platform with a breakthrough software stack and compiler that enables the programmer to easily optimize the hardware on the fly and get the performance of custom silicon with a platform that supports hundreds of different use cases,” Wright said.

SMI is initially targeting companies in the public datacenter, network security, finance, and insurance industries for its Mozart Platform with plans to disrupt the edge and mobile device markets in future product generations.  According to Allied Market Research, the global AI chip market will reach $91 billion by 2025, with growth rates of 45% a year until then. Market drivers include a surge in demand for smart homes and smart cities, more investment in AI startups, and the rise of smart robots. 

“As fast, flexible computing becomes more accessible, AI will be used by more industries for more applications more frequently, so chip design must evolve accordingly,” Sankaralingam said. “We are disrupting the next wave of computing with our breakthrough technology and are excited about the market opportunity, especially for AI chips along the power spectrum.”

About SimpleMachines, Inc.

Founded in 2017, SimpleMachines, Inc. (SMI) is an AI-focused semiconductor startup that is disrupting the next wave of computing. The company’s flagship technology, Mozart Platform, is a first-of-its-kind, easily programmable high-performance silicon chip that can run on various classes of AI algorithms. SMI’s first-generation chip – available via a PCIe card called Accelerando, or Symphony Cloud Service – is designed to provide high performance execution of software being developed for AI, machine learning, and big data analytics.  The product roadmap includes a second and third generation chip design that will target the large and rapidly growing mobile and edge computing markets. For more information, please visit https://www.simplemachines.ai/

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Multi-Innovation participates in Screw the Naysayers podcast with Tim Alison

Multi-Innovation CEO, Shmuel Silverman, shares his approach to protecting a business using strategically developed patent portfolios.

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Mill Valley, CA, October 3, 2019Multi-Innovation, a boutique firm that focuses on developing strategic patent portfolios, is pleased to showcase their participation in Tim Alison’s Screw the Naysayers podcast.

Shmuel Silverman, CEO and Founder of Multi-Innovation, shares his approach on how to use patents to protect your business in a 45-minute podcast. Silverman, an inventor and patent strategist with over 165 patents and provisionals has years of experience and has helped many companies create patent portfolios that protect their business. This podcast provides listeners with real-life examples of how and why taking advantage of having a strategic IP portfolio can be incredibly valuable for any sized company. 

In the podcast, Silverman says, “It’s not about the patent and it’s not about the technology. Business is about business. The first and foremost reason for IP is to protect the business, not protect the technology.” 

This fundamental discussion spotlights what differentiates Silverman’s innovative approach from the typical development of patents. He also shares his view on how taking this approach to creating a patent portfolio can facilitate new business opportunities for those driven to solve important problems.

Multi-Innovation is a team of inventors, business strategists and technology analysts who play a central role in developing strategic patent portfolios that protect and defend their client’s business while reducing their investments in intellectual property.

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Screw the Naysayers – How to Use Patents to Protect Your Business with Shmuel Silverman 

Multi-Innovation’s 5-part series on the impacts and future of 5G.

Multi-Innovation CEO, Shmuel Silverman, discusses his take on how 5G is shaping the world around us as we know it and what this means for new business opportunities.

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Mill Valley, CA, September 5th, 2019 Multi-Innovation, a boutique firm that focuses on developing strategic patent portfolios, is pleased to announce their participation in an extensive 5-part series on 5G and the game changing opportunities it brings.

5G is already rapidly shaping and changing the technology and communications industries as we know it. Companies will soon need to begin making decisions on how to approach this impending market reality and understand the infrastructure changes and impacts on hardware companies. Additionally, 5G will not only affect current industries and wireless communication but will also create new opportunities that have been blocked for many, many years and move us towards a new future with faster, better technology. 

Silverman says, “While the future of 5G doesn’t have one set path, companies can be proactive in their approach to its possibilities. 5G presents new and exciting opportunities for companies to adjust their focus towards new value propositions that will change the way consumers live, work, and play.”

In the 5-part series, Silverman will address several key concepts including a basic overview of why 5G matters, how it will change and mold life as we know it, and it’s influence on the future of transportation, privacy, and AI. 

Multi-Innovation is a team of inventors, business strategists and technology analysts who play a central role in developing strategic patent portfolios that protect and defend their client’s business while reducing their investments in intellectual property.

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Multi-Innovation teams up with Advantary for a 6-part series on successfully entering the U.S. Market

Multi-Innovation leads a webinar on how to nail a niche and use IP to protect it. 

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Mill Valley, CA, August 1, 2019: Multi-Innovation, a boutique firm that focuses on developing strategic patent portfolios, is pleased to team up with Advantary, a full-service Management Accelerator™ on a webinar series focused on how to successfully enter the U.S. market.

The U.S. market is expansive, therefore it’s important to find the beachhead that’ll help a company expand stateside first. Multi-Innovation CEO, Shmuel Silverman will lead a discussion on how to nail a niche and use IP to protect it.

Silverman says, “Patents approved by authorities outside of the U.S. have no legal binding in the States, therefore if you hope to grow your business in the U.S. you must have U.S. patents.” 

Silverman will address several key questions including freedom to operate and how to overcome barriers to entry by U.S companies. He will also detail how businesses can use IP as their own barriers to entry, allowing them to effectively compete and protect their value proposition.

“Patents that do not protect your value proposition are simply meaningless in this market,” says Silverman. “It’s important to control technology-based barriers to entry before your competitors do.” 

This webinar series is supported by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and is free and open to the public.  

Multi-Innovation is a team of inventors, business strategists, technology analysts, and R&D experts who play a central role in developing strategic patent portfolios for Fortune 1000 companies that protect and expand their business while reducing their investments in intellectual property.

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Multi-Innovation celebrates client Gooee in landing important IoT contract with Croonwolter&dros

Gooee will optimize both building and business performance for more than 5,000 buildings.

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Mill Valley, CA, June 27, 2019: Multi-Innovation, a boutique firm that focuses on developing strategic patent portfolios, is pleased to celebrate the success of its client, Gooee, in signing a contract with Croonwolter&dros that will connect more than 5,000 buildings in the Netherlands, onto the Gooee Building Intelligence Platform. Gooee’s Building Operating System will take control of inefficient, existing building systems to optimize both building and business performance under this contract.

The benefits of the Gooee system include reducing energy consumption and operational costs with an overall lower cost of ownership.  A subscription-based model reduces upfront investment and aligns with short pay payback periods for landlords, managers, and tenants.

Neil Salt, the Managing Director & Co-Founder of Gooee, says, “The most critical element in a car is its software. Today, companies like Tesla can improve the performance and efficiency of your vehicle with remotely managed software. This is what Gooee can do for buildings systems that aren’t integrated and were originally designed for function vs. efficiency. Our investment in technology & IP across wireless communications, lighting, sensing, and cloud-based applications have now made this a reality at scale and Gooee is at the forefront of this innovation.”

Multi-Innovation and Gooee have worked together for two years to develop over 75 patents to increase their overall market space and business protection. 

Shmuel Silverman, CEO, and founder of Multi-Innovation says, “Gooee’s innovative team is capitalizing on a basic utility – lighting – to change the world of space and building management with superb ROI for their clients. We are thrilled to see such  impressive results from all of their hard work and dedication in creating and closing on this opportunity.”

Gooee is a team of experienced lighting, space, and building specialists focused on providing global building performance solutions using best in class software and hardware. 

Multi-Innovation is a team of inventors, business strategists, technology analysts, and R&D experts who play a central role in developing strategic patent portfolios for Fortune 1000 companies that protect and expand their business while reducing their investments in intellectual property.

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