SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announced today that its corporate venture-capital subsidiary, TDK Ventures, Inc., is investing in the Series B funding round of EdgeCortix® Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company specializing in energy-efficient Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing at the edge. The TDK Ventures investment will further accelerate the mass-production of EdgeCortix’s highly successful SAKURA-II AI co-processors, which have secured design-wins across multiple industries, as well as help fuel the rapid production of the next-generation high performance SAKURA-X chiplet platform.
EdgeCortix’s core technology is its patented, software-first, hardware-software co-design framework, embodied in the SAKURA®-II Edge AI Platform. The platform integrates reconfigurable silicon with a dedicated compiler and runtime stack to deliver efficient and adaptable AI processing across heterogenous edge environments. This unique approach powers EdgeCortix’s own hardware and also acts as a “runtime of runtimes” for third-party processors, an elegant way to unify the fragmented, heterogeneous edge hardware landscape. Built on Dynamic Neural Accelerator® (DNA) technology, the SAKURA-II platform offers run-time reconfigurability and high parallelism to efficiently support a robust range of model types, from CNNs, to Transformers. The company’s AI accelerator modules and cards deliver up to 240 TOPS of compute performance for energy-efficient Generative AI processing of demanding edge applications, serving sectors including, Robotics, Industrial & Manufacturing, Aerospace, Defense, Space, Security and Telecommunications. With its forthcoming chiplet-based architecture, EdgeCortix is well-positioned to lead the next major wave of Edge AI growth and adoption.
This latest funding brings the company’s total cumulative capital, including equity investments and substantial non-dilutive government awards since December 2024, in excess of US$110 million. The Series B round, which began with an initial close in August 2025, continues to attract significant interest from prominent global investors, who recognize EdgeCortix’s innovative AI technologies, strategic leadership, and robust customer traction.
This also marks TDK Ventures’ first investment in a Japan-based company. “EdgeCortix is an exemplary company that represents a major evolution in the edge AI compute space,” said Nicolas Sauvage, president of TDK Ventures.
TDK Ventures Invests in EdgeCortix to Accelerate Global Expansion and Edge AI Processing Platform
