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Lokwon Kim Is Teaching AI to Live on Five Watts
After helping design processors at Apple, Cisco and IBM, the DEEPX founder returned to South Korea with a stubborn idea: intelligence should live inside ordinary machines, without demanding a data center-sized appetite.
DEEPX
DEEPX is a South Korean fabless semiconductor startup building ultra-low-power neural processing units (NPUs) for on-device and edge AI. Founded in 2018 by former Apple chip designer Lokwon Kim, the company designs AI accelerators - led by its 25 TOPS DX-M1 chip - that run vision and generative AI models at under 5 watts, aiming to move intelligence out of the data center and into robots, cameras, factories, mobility and everyday devices. It raised an $80.5M Series C in 2024 at a $529M valuation and positions itself as a 'Physical AI infrastructure company.'