Flexible
Low-Power Gen AI
Inference Systems

Flexible
Low-Power Gen AI
Inference Systems

Welcome to the Future of AI Inference

Welcome to the Future of AI Inference

Our hyper-scalable platform, powered by our proprietary PL1000, offers compact, high compute density solutions customized for any application.

Pearl Solo
Pearl Edge
Pearl HPC

1

1

PL1000 modules

24

24

HBM Memory

64 TFLOPS

64 TFLOPS

FP8 compute

64

64

Model size (parameters)

1.2

1.2

Memory Bandwidth

30

30

Thermal Design Power

Powered by Persimmons Chiplet Architecture

Powered by Persimmons Chiplet Architecture

The PL1000 chiplet enhances AI adaptability from small devices to large data centers through its modular design, driving innovation and reducing development times. It improves cost efficiency by lowering operational costs and energy use, while its robust architecture minimizes risks and ensures reliable performance.

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Founded by Industry Veterans

Founded by Industry Veterans

Our team comprises of experts with extensive experience from Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Intel, Recogni, Einride, Stanford, and Berkeley, alongside guidance from leading AI figures in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Persimmons Founding Partners

Valerie Chan
Founder and CEO
Serial entrepreneur & executive in the semiconductor industry with a proven track record of scaling startups from prototype to full-scale production, specializing in global strategy and operations.
Eugene Feinberg
Founder and CTO
Life long career in ASIC design, high-performance computing, and large-scale system architecture. Proven track record of designing and delivering groundbreaking systems and chips for consumer markets, data centers, and edge ML applications.
Dominic Hughes
Chief Science Officer
Senior leader in Machine Learning and AI, with a distinguished career at Apple and beyond. Holds a PhD in Mathematics from Oxford, and researcher at UC Berkeley, formerly Stanford. Co-founder of a pioneering algorithm and machine learning company acquired by Apple.
Joel Enquist
Chief Strategy Officer
Veteran leader in Corporate Development, formerly VP at Einride and Quest Analytics. Ex-VC at Creandum (first institutional investor in Spotify) and board member for multiple startups.
Kiran Maheriya
VP of Product
Accomplished leader in hardware and product engineering with proven success as a Principal Engineer at Microsoft and Recogni, and as the manager of Amazon’s ASIC team (Lab126).
Anoop Nair
VP of Software
Proven leader in platform software development, previously VP of Engineering for Autonomous Vehicle Software at Einride, Engineering Director for Autonomous software platform at Optimus Ride and Magna (through acquisition of Optimus Ride), and led software initiatives at the CTO group at Flex.

Board of Advisors

David Kirk
Board Advisor & Investor
Former Chief Scientist and Fellow at NVIDIA. During his tenure at NVIDIA, David was instrumental in the creation of many generations of Graphics Processors, including during the transition to programmable GPUs, and the evolution toward general purpose massively parallel computing on GPUs.
JJ Snow
Strategic Advisor
Military Veteran, deep tech and counterproliferation expert, former SOFWERX CIO and AFWERX CTO. Current CEO at Snow Storm Advisory, LLC and serves as strategic advisor/board member for multiple aerospace and defense focused startups.
Jeff Herbst
Strategic Advisor
Jeff spent 20 years as NVIDIA’s Vice President of Business Development where he built an ecosystem of accelerated computing applications spanning the domains of AI, Data Science, Autonomous Machines, and Graphics and Visualization. During his tenure at the company, among other things he created the Nvidia ventures and acquisitions programs, overseeing more than 40 global investments and 20 acquisitions valued over $8B.
Marten Mickos
Strategic Advisor
Formerly CEO of HackerOne, SVP and GM of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud Business, CEO of Eucalyptus, EIR at Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, SVP and GM of the Database Group of Sun Microsystems, CEO of MySQL AB.

Events and updates from the team

Events and updates from the team

Head over to our events page to explore our upcoming events and hackathons. For insights and discussions on AI industry trends, visit our blog.

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revolution

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Suite 100 San Jose
CA 95131

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About

Founded by industry veterans with backgrounds in ASIC design, edge compute, semiconductor supply chain management, and operational excellence.

Our team comprises experts with extensive experience from Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Intel, Recogni, Einride, Stanford, and Berkeley, alongside guidance from leading AI figures in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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