Hepzibah

Hepzibah's technology has a long lineage, and the company says so itself: it builds on Computational RAM, research its co-founder and chief executive Martin Snelgrove began in the late 1980s while teaching at the University of Toronto, originally for graphics and digital signal processing. That idea — do the arithmetic where the data already sits, rather than shuttling it to a separate compute unit — was rebranded at-memory compute at Untether AI and is now aimed at modern AI inference and light training workloads, including distillation, with supercomputer-style on-chip networking. The commercial model is the departure: instead of fabricating and selling accelerators, Hepzibah licenses application-specific IP and core designs with a white-glove service model, so a chipmaker can put the architecture inside its own SoC. The founding team is the Untether one — Snelgrove as CEO, David Lynch as a board director, Taneem Ahmed as vice-president of software, and Raymond Chik as chair and hardware lead — each of whom the company lists as a multiple-time chip founder.