Kastrup's Memory-in-Compute Chip Startup Raises €200M+ With Samsung Co-Leading
demian_ai · x · 2026-09-17
Bernardo Kastrup (ex-ASML, philosophy author) announced €200M+ in funding co-led by Samsung, with ex-ASML CEO Peter Wennink as chair. His startup designs neural-net chips that collapse the memory-compute trip GPUs waste energy on, claiming dramatically lower power. Ships 2028; no public rack or measured watt/dollar yet, but success would redefine token cost and memory vendor dynamics.
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