About EdgeCortix
EdgeCortix is a fabless chip company that designs AI accelerators for edge devices. Its SAKURA-II chip, announced in May 2024, uses the company's second-generation Dynamic Neural Accelerator, a processing engine that can be reconfigured at run time to suit the model being run. It targets generative AI, including language and vision models, and ships as a chip, M.2 modules and PCIe cards. A software suite called MERA compiles models from PyTorch, TensorFlow Lite and ONNX. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.
EdgeCortix was founded in 2019 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. It is listed under Edge Computing, AI Accelerators. Reported funding is Series B oversubscribed close, total >$110M (Nov 2025).
Compute Technologies
- Edge Computing
- AI Accelerators
What EdgeCortix works on
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
Also in Japan
Renesas Electronics, LeapMind, Socionext, Seiko Epson Semiconductor, Preferred Networks
