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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 2013 |
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| Headquarters | , |
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| Products | Ara-1, Ara-2 |
| Owner | NXP Semiconductors |
| Website | kinara |
Kinara is an American semiconductor company that develops AI processors for machine learning applications.
Kinara was founded in 2013 by Rehan Hameed, Wajahat Qadeer and Jason Copeland [1] as CoreViz. [2] The company was rebranded as Deep Vision, and raised [3] $35M in a series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. [4] In 2022 Deep Vision rebranded as Kinara. [5] The company has a development base in Hyderabad, India. [6]
Kinara has partnerships with NXP Semiconductors [7] and Arcturus Networks. [8] In December 2023 they began a collaboration with Ampere and Mirasys. Kinara is a member of the AI Platform Alliance which is led by Ampere and is made up of 8 other companies. [9] In April 2023, Kinara announced a partnership with ENERZAi, a company that offers technology to compress AI models. [10]
Kinara has a partnership with Awiros, which showed its first results in January 2023 at the Consumer Technology Association’s CES annual trade show. [11]
On 10 February 2025, Kinara entered into a definitive agreement with NXP to get acquired, in an all cash deal worth $307 million. This transaction was completed on October 27, 2025. [12]
In 2020, the company announced its first product, the Ara-1 Edge AI Processor. [13] The product uses a polymorphic dataflow architecture. [14] The Ara-2 was launched in December 2023 and is 5 to 8 times faster than its predecessor. [15] [16]
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