# Ceremorphic, Inc.

> Ceremorphic is a San Jose-based fabless semiconductor startup building energy-efficient AI supercomputing silicon. Founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneur Venkat Mattela, the company taped out a first-of-its-kind 5nm HPC/AI chip on TSMC's most advanced node and is applying the same Hierarchical Learning Processor architecture to data center AI, robotics, automotive, and analog-AI-driven drug discovery.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, California, United States
- **Founders:** Venkat Mattela (Founder, Chairman & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~160 employees across San Jose HQ and Hyderabad design center
- **Products:** Hierarchical Learning Processor (HLP), QS 1 / 5nm AI Supercomputing Chip, Custom Silicon Development, Datacenter-in-a-Box, BioCompDiscoverX (Ceremorphic Life Sciences)
- **Notable:** Taped out a first-of-its-kind 5nm AI supercomputing chip on TSMC in 2022., Raised $50M Series A in January 2022 while still in stealth., Grew to roughly 160 employees across the US and India inside four years.

## Products & services

- **Hierarchical Learning Processor (HLP)** — A multi-thread, multi-domain SoC architecture that routes workloads to the right compute fabric for optimal performance per watt.
- **QS 1 / 5nm AI Supercomputing Chip** — Ceremorphic's first SoC, taped out on TSMC's 5nm node, featuring PCIe 6.0, CXL 3.0, 64Gbit SerDes and a custom ML processor + floating-point unit at 2GHz.
- **Custom Silicon Development** — Advanced-node custom silicon service for customers building their own HPC/AI chips, using Ceremorphic's in-house IP.
- **Datacenter-in-a-Box** — Integrated host + tile-processor system aimed at compact, high-density AI training and inference deployments.
- **BioCompDiscoverX (Ceremorphic Life Sciences)** — Analog-AI-based drug discovery platform aimed at reducing R&D cost and time for new therapeutics.

## Achievements

- Taped out a first-of-its-kind 5nm AI supercomputing chip on TSMC in 2022.
- Raised $50M Series A in January 2022 while still in stealth.
- Grew to roughly 160 employees across the US and India inside four years.
- Founder Venkat Mattela previously built and sold Redpine Signals to Silicon Labs for $308M.

## Latest updates

- **2022-01** — Exited stealth and announced a $50M Series A alongside its HPC/AI silicon vision.
- **2022-04** — CEO Venkat Mattela spoke at the Linley Spring Processor Conference.
- **2022-10** — Taped out its 5nm AI supercomputing chip on TSMC's advanced node.
- **2023** — Introduced custom silicon development services using in-house IP for customer HPC chip programs.

## Links

- Website: https://ceremorphic.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsfromceremorphic
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CeremorphicNews

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Last updated: 2026-05-29