NextSilicon, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, is a semiconductor company developing high-performance computing solutions. The company has raised more than $300 million in funding through a Series C round and employs over 350 people globally. Its technical focus spans adaptive computing, dataflow acceleration, self-optimizing software-hardware integration, and RISC-V CPU core design.
The company's flagship product, Maverick-2, is a dataflow accelerator that its maker claims can deliver up to ten times the performance of leading GPUs while consuming less than half the power. It is designed as a software-defined hardware platform that adapts dynamically to workloads without requiring code rewrites. The second product, Arbel, is an enterprise-grade RISC-V CPU core manufactured on TSMC technology, positioned as a competitor to processors from Intel and AMD.
NextSilicon targets computationally intensive fields, including scientific research, financial modelling, supercomputing, web search, and social media analysis. The company's Intelligent Compute Architecture is its overarching approach to combining adaptive hardware with self-optimising software.
