Series A · Hardware & Semiconductors · London, United Kingdom · Founded 2024 · 51–200 employees
OLIX is developing an Optical Tensor Processing Unit designed specifically for demanding AI inference workloads. By integrating an SRAM-centric memory architecture with silicon photonics, the company bypasses traditional memory bandwidth bottlenecks and supply-chain constraints. The hardware startup recently raised a substantial Series A round that pushed its valuation past the one billion dollar threshold. This architecture aims to deliver high throughput and interactivity while significantly lowering the total cost of ownership for running frontier AI models.