Oxmiq Labs exited stealth mode today as a new startup led by Raja Koduri of AMD / Apple / Intel fame to focus on GPU software and licenseable graphics IP. Oxmiq Labs is a new GPU software and IP startup that has been in development for two years already and built a team of talented GPU and AI architects.
Oxmiq Labs will offer licensable GPU IP and leverage RISC-V core designs. Oxmiq is said to be a software-first company that will prioritize the developer experience and their software will also support third-party GPU and AI accelerator platforms. Oxmiq is also developing OXPython for enabling Python-based NVIDIA CUDA AI applications to run “seamlessly” on non-NVIDIA hardware without code modification or recompilation.
Oxmiq Labs has raised $20 million in seed funding so far from the likes of MediaTek. More details on Oxmiq Labs via this morning’s announcement. There isn’t too much information yet on their corporate website but that is at Oxmiq.ai.
It will be very interesting to see where Oxmiq Labs goes from here and what sort of adoption takes off as well as the interest level in their software efforts like OXPython. The announcement doesn’t mention Linux or open-source specifically, but as they are targeting the AI accelerator market, Linux support is pretty much a given. Hopefully their software efforts end up being open-source too while we’ll see in time.
