Company Developing 4D+ Vision Chip for Automotive and Industrial Customers


Funding Round to SiLC Technologies led by Dell Technologies Capital includes Several Prominent Venture Firms and Angel Investors.

The leading innovator of integrated single-chip Frequency Modulated Continuous  Wave of  Light Detection and Ranging solutions, SiLC technologies announced that it bagged $12 million in seed funding mainly led by Dell Technologies Capital which is a global funding venture by Dell Technologies and various other remarkable angel investors following Decent Capital, ITIC Ventures also took part in the funding round. SiLC says it will utilize the funding to amplitude its research and development and operations to advance its frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) silicon photonic  4D+ Vision Chip platform.

SiLC which was established back in 2018 by veterans of silicon photonics Industry  and founded by  Mehdi Asghari who is also a CEO of SiLC states that company has come up with a vivid group of intellectual property in additional with exclusive process for manufacturing high-performance optical components in huge amount.

The announcement follows a successful showing at CES 2020, where SiLC demonstrated the industry’s first fully-integrated FMCW chip and an unprecedented long-range LiDAR resolution. Utilizing its second-generation FMCW silicon photonics 4D+ Vision Chip to generate scans, SiLC was able to detect objects smaller than one and a half inches at a range of nearly 200 meters, translating to an effective resolution of around 0.01 degrees vertically and horizontally. This level of performance capability can enable a vehicle traveling at highway speed to stop or avoid objects at more than 200 meters range, a critical aspect of autonomous vehicle navigation and safety.

This company’s advanced production-ready 4D+ Vision Chip surpasses the performance metrics, such as range, resolution, accuracy posed by most light detection and ranging devices in a much smaller step, while also adding critical vector measurements such as velocity, light polarization, and reflectivity.