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About Neuchips

Neuchips Intro
Growth History
Board Members
Management Team
Investors
Founded in 2019
Neuchips specializes in AI ASIC design,
harnessing cutting-edge technology to drive future innovation
Our elite team comprises over 80% highly skilled engineers with experience from leading semiconductor companies worldwide. As a founding member of MLCommons and an active participant in the Open Compute Project (OCP) community, we consistently push the boundaries of technological advancement.
Based in Hsinchu, our headquarters benefits from proximity to top-tier academic institutions and an advanced technology ecosystem, fostering an environment rich in challenges and growth opportunities for our staff.

The Neuchips Advantage: Total Solution Expertise

Unlike other AI hardware, our flagship N3000 ASIC is a commercially launched, silicon-proven solution engineered for high power efficiency in targeted AI workloads (Specially DLRM). Our differentiation lies not just in the silicon itself, but in our proven ability to deliver complete system integration:

 

  • Silicon-Proven & Commercially Ready: The N3000 has successfully achieved 7nm tape-out and is currently deployed in real-world environments.
  • Data Center Integration:Our technology is system-validated and successfully integrated into the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan’s premier data center facility.
  • Full-Stack Readiness: We provide more than just chips; we deliver a production-ready ecosystem, including a proprietary compiler and a mature SDK, ensuring that our specialized hardware is stable and easy to deploy at scale.
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Our Strategic Pivot: Silicon, IP, and Design Services

As the AI landscape moves toward specific, customized hardware, Neuchips has evolved into a multi-faceted partner offering:
  • Specialized AI IP Licensing: We license our silicon-proven technology—including our Neural Processing Unit (NPU) IP, NeuKompression™ IP, and eFuse Controller IP—to help partners build their own application-specific SoCs.
  • Front-End Design Services: Leveraging our proven tape-out success on advanced process nodes, Neuchips provides Front-End Design-as-a-Service. We function as a seamless extension of your engineering team, accelerating your AI hardware development through:
    • Architecture & RTL Design: From initial definition to optimized RTL coding, backed by advanced node experience.
    • Verification & Power Analysis: Ensuring design integrity and energy efficiency through rigorous functional testing.
    • Emulation & Validation: Accelerating pre-silicon cycles using FPGA prototyping and proprietary Neuchips emulation.
  • NeuSight™ AI Training Service: A specialized vision-based anomaly detection service. Because we possess "Silicon-Centric DNA," we train NeuSight™ models to be mathematically optimized for hardware efficiency, ensuring high-speed, accurate alerts for industrial defects.
Our technical excellence
was highlighted by our outstanding performance in the MLPerf 3.0 DLRM efficiency competition.
Currently, Neuchips is expanding its product range into LLM and generative AI domains, continuing our commitment to technological innovation and market leadership.
 
 
 
 
 
Growth History
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
  • Feb
    Neuchips raised USD$17.6M in series B3 funding round.
  • Jun
    2025 marked a strategic business transformation as we strengthened our position in the generative AI market while simultaneously exploring new market opportunities.
  • Jun
    Viper series RAG-LLM showcase attracted nearly 1,000 visitors at Computex, boosting our market presence by 40%.
  • Dec
    Neuchips announced expanded with new office in Hsinchu Science Park.
  • Nov
    Neuchips established US business entity and office in Silicon Valley.
  • Sep
    Neuchips participated in MLPerf v1.1 for Datacenter Recommendation.
  • May
    Neuchips opened Taipei office.
  • Apr
    Neuchips raised USD$35m in series B funding round, included strategic investors Wistron, etc.
  • Mar
    Neuchips participated in MLPerf v1.0 for Datacenter Recommendation.
  • Jan
    Neuchips Joins MLCommons as a Founding Member.
  • Sep
    Neuchips participated MLPerf v0.7 for Datacenter Recommendation.
  • May
    Neuchips Announces World's First Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM) Accelerator:RecAccel™
  • Jul
    Neuchips raised NT$75M/US$2.5M in series A funding round.
  • Jan
    Neuchips Corporation was established in Taiwan.
Board Members
Chairman and Founder
Dr. Youn-Long Lin
Dr. Lin has 35 years of experience in IC design academy and industry, including co-founder, CTO & EVP at Global Unichip Corp., a TSMC subsidiary public company specialized in SOC design service; chair professor of computer science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; co-founder of Taiwan’s National Chip Implementation Center; Program director of the AI research Initiative sponsored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, and an independent board member of Etron Technology. He earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1987.
Director
Benson Chin
Benson Chin has over 20+ years of ICT industry working experience at Acer and Wistron Corporation. Benson joined Acer in 1995, started from procurement function at electronic parts then moved to product / project management role. In his PM role, had successfully launched DT products, MXM card, MB, smart handheld products and portable device, etc.
In his current position, he is the Chief of Value Creation Center (VCC) under CTO office in Wistron, authorized by company executive management team to focus on creating innovative products / solutions to bring company different business possibility which included AI, Big Data development application on Smart education, Medical, Healthcare and IoT related devices, also closely co-work with internal BG/BU for OEM/ODM service continually. In the meanwhile, Benson is also responsible for Wistron CVC, which is focusing on investing highly potential startups with core technology and aim to build up unique CVC business model of Taiwan institution and create new value of the investees.
Director
Moris Lin
Moris Lin, gave his service to Mediatek as analog IC designer, multiple mass production experience and patents issued during his tenure. Currently, he is a partner of Nestor Capital and co-managing Grandfull Fund, focusing on semiconductor sector. The Investments are mainly in advanced technology covering range from RISC-V CPU, DPU, CXL Switch, NPU, SERDES, GeSi sensing technology, to WBG, etc.
 
 
 
 
 
Management Team
Chairman and Founder
Dr. Youn-Long Lin
Dr. Lin has 35 years of experience in IC design academy and industry, including co-founder, CTO & EVP at Global Unichip Corp., a TSMC subsidiary public company specialized in SOC design service; chair professor of computer science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; co-founder of Taiwan’s National Chip Implementation Center; Program director of the AI research Initiative sponsored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, and an independent board member of Etron Technology. He earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1987.
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Joe Kao
Dr. Kao is CTO and the first employee of Neuchips. He has established the Research and Development (R&D) team from its very inception and leads product roadmap and development. Dr. Kao earned his Ph.D. in computer science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He holds over 10 international patents in the areas of artificial intelligence, circuit design and image processing.
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