The Raspberry Pi of AI: Korean startup wants to bring ultra-cheap, high performance NPUs to billions of devices using its own secret quantization sauce, with $1/TOPS target on the horizon

DeepX, a South Korean AI company, presented its V1 and M1 chips at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. The V1 SoC features a 5-TOPS NPU and quad-RISC-V CPUs for under $10, while the M1 accelerator offers 25-TOPS performance for various applications.

DeepX is collaborating with LG to develop LLM-optimized chips for mobile devices and appliances. The company's upcoming V3 chip will feature a 15-TOPS dual-core NPU with Arm CPU cores, responding to customer demand for better security and ecosystem support.