Vulcan Technologies (鹏瞰科技), a Chinese intelligent industrial networking and computing solutions startup, has completed over RMB100 million ($14.86 million) strategic financing, the company announced.

Chinese prominent semiconductor investors including Inno-chip (韦豪创芯), VeriSilicon (芯原股份) and Sunic Capital (临芯投资) led the investment.

Vulcan Technologies was founded in 2019 by Ivan Lee, the former global vice president of Marvell. The company enjoyed initial  support from Marvell founders Dai Weili and Zhou Xiuwen. The core team has an average of more than 20 years of industry experience, and deep accumulation in AI.

Vulcan has created a new paradigm of building a full-stack network transmission control chip and system based on passive optical networks, which can be applied in many fields such as robots, whole-house intelligence, smart factories, and smart cars.

Ivan Lee says, “Vulcan’s mission is to provide ultra-low latency, high security and reliability, low power consumption, and scalable end-to-end industrial connectivity solutions to meet the endless demands of AI processors and advanced sensors, accelerating the implementation of generalized edge intelligence.”

Vulcan’s SoC chip has been successfully taped out, with in-depth cooperation with many leading companies in the fields of robotics and whole-house smart energy under way.

Liang Long, managing director of Inno-chip, said that AI’s next trend lies in the highly integrated robot application of algorithms, sensors and computing power systems, and Vulcan could provide innovative interconnection infrastructure for the coming era of intelligent robots.

Dai Weimin, founder, chairman and president of VeriSilicon, said that Vulcan has the world's leading protocol and algorithm, IP, and SoC productization capabilities.