EMBEDDED
Ultra-Low Power Graphics
for
IoT / Wearable / Embedded
Small Display Devices
Presenter: Georgios Keramidas - CSO
Contact : Ulli Mueller | VP of Marketing & Business Development | Toronto, ON – Canada | Tel: + 1 647.824.2006 | [email protected]
01 Company
Think Silicon S.A. is a global IP company specializing in
developing ultra-low power Graphic Processing Units (GPU) for
wearable, embedded, IoT platforms and compute engines for
lower layers of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications
Established 2007
HQ and Development Center: Patras, Greece
Development Center: Athens, Greece
WW Sales & Marketing Office: Toronto, Canada
Sales Office NA: San Jose, CA, USA
Sales Office EU: Germany
Goal!
To become the #1 market leader for
ultra-low power GPU’s!
02 Problem
The Internet of Things (IoT) has put extended battery life and low power
consumption at the top of the requirement list for new products!
Problem:
Today’s mobile devices are not power optimized &
Over sixty-four percent (64%) of
today’s mobile users are unsatisfied
with their devices
provide less than one
Culprit:
Porting GPUs from high-end
Notebooks to Smart-Phones and
(1) day of typical use!
Over 30% of the Samsung
Gear watches sold in retail
were returned by
unsatisfied customers!
Wearable devices has failed!
Solution:
Think Silicon develops new ultra-low power
graphic chip-design methods which increase the
battery by up to 100%!
03 Advantage
PATENTED Technology* provides significant cost and power advantages on all levels
BOM savings on chip level for our fabless
semiconductor customer
512 kB
32 kB
Cost savings:
by eliminated
Off-chip memory
~ $2 /system
Memory
NEMA
Memory
Competition
1.06mm2
< 0.1mm2
DIE Area
NEMA
DIE Area
Cost savings:
fabrication cost
up to
$0.10 per chip
Competition
*Three (3) US Patents granted / Four (4) pending
Cost savings on product
development level
End-user
satisfaction
(price-less)
Think Silicon Software
tools for fast
Graphical User Interface
development
100%
battery life
increase
from 3 to 6 days
(average use)
04 The Product
The first Graphic Processor Unit
(GPU) where the chip architecture
has been radically new designed
from bottom-up for a new generation
of wearable and embedded ultra-low
power devices
Performance per mWatt per Dollar
The criterion our customers
are focused on!
87%
LESS
Active
Power
98%
LESS
Idle Power
Chip-level
88%
LOWER
Cost
Chip-level
4X
SMALLER
Silicon Area
Chip-level
5X
LONGER
Battery life
Device-level
Chip-level
05 Roadmap – GPUs Portfolio
2017
NEMA|S Full 3D
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GPUs
1-16 Cores
0.5mm2
200 - 800 MHz
Full OS
OpenGL ES 3.x
Vulkan
OpenCL
NEMA|t Lite 3D
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mid-large displays
(>4” – Full HD)
LEMobile/Entertainment/Automotive
Tape out
1-4 Cores
0.14 - 0.29 mm2
100 - 400 MHz
Full OS
OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0
small displays (1,5” – 6”)
Launched
Wearable /IoT/Embedded
NEMA|p 2D/2.5D
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1 Core
0.07mm2
10 – 150 MHz
no OS, RTOS, Linux
nema|GFX, μgfx, DirectFB
Markets
06 Competition – Barriers
Graphics IP Market share by Vendor 2015
Target: Growing with the
market and take market share
from all the vendors.
Particularly Vivante/Verisilicon
and DMP by offering a
product with unparalleled
features
Barrier: ARM and
Imagination’s core products
are CPU’s, which they use to
offer their GPU in a bundle
which can impede
customer/market entrance.
There is a opportunity to turn
them into customers by
licensing our IP to them (this
is not a uncommon practice)
Source: Gartner
07 Sales Strategy
TAM: fifty (50) companies world wide
SAM: Twenty (22) companies world wide
SOM (Target – mid/long-term): Win business
with at least four (4) Tier-one customers & six
(6) Tier-two
Goal!
To become the #1
market leader for
ultra-low power
GPU’s!
Sales Execution
• Tortuga Pacific Inc.: International strategic sales & business development
company specialized in complex IP product sales and setting up patent
licensing business
• Sales history of closing business deals between $1M to $450M
• Headquarters: San Jose, California, USA
• Sales Offices: Germany/EMEA and Japan/APAC
• Tortuga team members are former sales executives from semiconductor
companies such as: Tessera, MIPS Technologies, Discretix, and MimoOn
• CEO Brad Holtzinger, former VP of World-Wide Sales at MIPS Technologies
08 The Team
Over 20 Chip Designs - IP portfolio - Patent Pool - 40 Publications
For over 10 years, our core engineering team has worked
together at several companies and have successfully launched
multiple semiconductor products
CEO/co-founder – George Sidiropoulos
Day-to-day operations, 16 years experience, former Atmel, M.Sc. from the University of Patras, Greece
CTO/co-founder – Iakovos Stamoulis
R&D, 17 years experience, former Atmel, Ph.D. VLSI & Computer Graphics from the University of
Sussex, UK
CSO – Georgios Keramidas
IP & patents, 11 years experience, Ph.D. Computer Science from University of Patras, Greece
VP Marketing & Business Development – Ulli Mueller
Business development 21 years experience, former AMD, M.Sc. from University of Furtwangen,
Germany
Advisory Board – Gideon Intrater: CTO Adesto, former SVP Marketing MIPS Technologies,
30 years experience, BSEE & MSEE Technion, Israel, MBA from San Jose State University
Advisory Board – Stefanos Sidiropoulos: former founder and CEO of Aeluros, 20 years
experience, Ph.D. EE from Stanford University, CA
09 Milestones 2016-2017
Recent achievements:
Design license wins with two (2) Tier-one and one (1) Tier-two
fabless semiconductor vendors resulting three (3) independent
tape-outs of NEMA in wearable and non-wearable devices in
Q4/2016 and Q1/2017
Recognition:
“Cool Vendors in ‘Novel Semiconductors for Neural
Networks, 2016” by Michele Reitz, Martin Reynolds, James F. Hines, Nathan
Nuttal, Gerald van Hoy, 27 April 2017 (ID Number: G00302664)
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3298118?ref=AnalystProfile&srcId=1-4554397745
Customers & Technology Partner
Thank You!
Georgios Keramidas
Contact : Ulli Mueller | VP of Marketing & Business Development | Toronto, ON – Canada | Tel: + 1 647.824.2006 | [email protected]