Zero ASIC

Zero ASIC Corporation, formerly Adapteva, Inc., is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on low power many core microprocessor design. The company was the second company to announce a design with 1,000 specialized processing cores on a single integrated circuit. Adapteva was founded in 2008 with the goal of bringing a ten times advancement in floating-point performance per watt for the mobile device market. Products are based on its Epiphany multi-core multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) architecture and its Parallella Kickstarter project promoting "a supercomputer for everyone" in September 2012. The company name is a combination of "adapt" and the Hebrew word "Teva" meaning nature. Adapteva was founded in March 2008, by Andreas Olofsson. The company was founded with the goal of bringing a 10× advancement in floating-point processing energy efficiency for the mobile device market. In May 2009, Olofsson had a prototype of a new type of massively parallel multi-core computer architecture. The initial prototype was implemented in 65 nm and had 16 independent microprocessor cores. The initial prototypes enabled Adapteva to secure US$1.5 million in series-A funding from BittWare, a company from Concord, New Hampshire, in October 2009. Adapteva's first commercial chip product started sampling to customers in early May 2011 and they soon thereafter announced the capability to put up to 4,096 cores on a single chip. The Epiphany III, was announced in October 2011 using 28 nm and 65 nm manufacturing processes. Adapteva's main product family is the Epiphany scalable multi-core MIMD architecture. The Epiphany architecture could accommodate chips with up to 4,096 RISC out-of-order microprocessors, all sharing a single 32-bit flat memory space. Each RISC processor in the Epiphany architecture is superscalar with 64× 32-bit unified register file (integer or single-precision) microprocessor operating up to 1 GHz and capable of 2 GFLOPS (single-precision).