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Interview 06 of 2112:30 PM · Moscone West

Jony Jung

Founder, TDS Innovation

2D-semiconductor materials for faster, lower-power AI chips.

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3:51 · Jony's answers, condensed.

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1/12 the power, 23x faster chips

“Yeah, we're making AI chips a little bit more powerful with a new material called 2D semiconductor. And with 2D material, we can cut down the power consumption by one-twelfth and then we can speed up the whole semiconduc…”

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A chip breakthrough in Nature

“But with our concept of making 2D material called crystal layer deposition, or you can call it CLD, we can pretty much make a uniform and even layer of 2D semiconductor at 0 .7 nanometer at a wafer scale. And that has a …”

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Put memory on top of the chip

“Because current problem with the semiconductor now is that the logic and memory, the distance between that is very, very far away. We're trying to reduce the distance between that. So if you think about physical AI where…”

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30 people, $7M raised, $20M next

“Yeah, we've grown into 30 people in just over two years time. We raised about seven million US dollar at the scale of, you know, 2D pre-Series A round. We are here for looking for investors for Series A round of funding,…”

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Founder advice: go for a run

“Well, have a positive mind. In order to do that, you need to have 100 % healthy mind and healthy body. So I recommend people to run. Number one, run. And then come back. And think about all the positive things that you c…”

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