Get the latest tech news

Spark, Mayfield, and Kleiner Perkins pour another $75M into AI data center chipmaker Retym


Retym, a U.S. chipmaker with Israeli roots, has raised a fresh $75 million series D led by James Kuklinski of Spark Capital. Existing investors —

It’s working on a new “programmable coherent digital signal processing DSP” chip that allows the innards of data centers to communicate faster both internally and with external sources. Data centers needed this kind of tech anyway, but the sudden rise of AI has put overwhelming pressure on them to be faster, more efficient, and handle bigger workloads. Its CTO co-founder Roni El-Bahar published his first blog post on Monday, saying he founded the startup to bring competition to the DSP market that has historically been “controlled by a handful of large semiconductor companies.”

Get the Android app

Or read this on TechCrunch

Read more on:

Photo of Spark

Spark

Photo of Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins

Photo of mayfield

mayfield

Related news:

News photo

Dreamhaven’s Lynked: Banner of the Spark hits PC and consoles on May 22

News photo

Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark

News photo

Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage