GSI Technology, Inc. Receives Award from U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to Demonstrate High-Data Computation Use Cases Leveraging Its Next-Generation APU
January 03, 2024 at 05:30 am EST
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GSI Technology, Inc. announced it has been selected by AFWERX for an SBIR Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1.1 million to demonstrate high-data computation use cases leveraging the distinct compute in-memory architecture of its next-generation Associative Processing Unit-2 (APU2). GSI will create specialized algorithms for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to leverage the compute-in-memory architecture of the Gemini® APU. This chip is designed for various AI applications to tackle key challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF), including in-aircraft search and rescue, object detection, moving target indication, change detection, and SSIM in GPS-absent situations. GSI will also develop algorithms using data from the United States Space Force (USSF) to showcase the performance benefits of its compute-in-memory APU2 integrated circuit (IC).
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating the small business experience through faster proposal to award timelines, changing the pool of potential applicants by expanding opportunities to small business and eliminating bureaucratic overhead by continually implementing process improvement changes in contract execution. The DAF began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018, which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded. Now, GSI Technology will start its journey to create and provide innovative capabilities that will strengthen the national defense of the United States of America.
GSI Technology, Inc. is a provider of semiconductor memory solutions. The Company provides in-place associative computing solutions for applications in high growth markets such as artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), including natural language processing and computer vision. The Company's associative processing unit (APU) products are focused on applications using similarity search. Its similarity search is used in visual search queries for ecommerce, computer vision, drug discovery, cyber security and service markets such as NoSQL, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch. The Company operates through one segment: the design, development and sale of integrated circuits. It designs, develops and markets static random-access memory (SRAM). Its SRAM offerings include SyncBurst, NBT, SigmaQuad, and SigmaDDR. It is also engaged in marketing radiation-hardened (RadHard) and radiation-tolerant (RadTolerant) SRAMs for military/defense and aerospace applications.
GSI Technology, Inc. Receives Award from U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to Demonstrate High-Data Computation Use Cases Leveraging Its Next-Generation APU
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