d-Matrix Ships First AI Chip

By Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – Silicon Valley startup d-Matrix on Tuesday announced the shipment of its first AI chip designed to support services like chatbots and video generators.

Having raised over $160 million in funding, including from Microsoft's venture capital arm, d-Matrix reported that early customers are currently testing sample chips, with full shipments expected to increase next year.

Based in Santa Clara, California, d-Matrix didn't disclose specific customer names but confirmed that Super Micro Computer will sell servers compatible with d-Matrix chips.

The company's chips are intended to complement major AI chip manufacturers like Nvidia, whose products are typically used to train AI systems on large datasets. After this training, d-Matrix chips focus on handling numerous user requests during a process known as inference.

Designed to manage requests from many users simultaneously on a single chip, d-Matrix chips excel even as users continually request new responses or alterations to generated videos.

Sid Sheth, d-Matrix's CEO, stated, "We are getting a lot of interest in video use cases where customers are saying, 'Hey, look, we want to generate videos, and we want a collection of users, all interacting with their own respective video.'"