Investors were Lifeline Ventures and High Tech Gründerfonds.
INCIRT is developing data converters that claim to enable up to 100 times faster data conversion than previous approaches.
INCIRT says it has rethought data converters and developed a system architecture that does not focus on optimising existing technology, but on intelligent parallelisation.
The chips are produced using 22-nanometer technology in Europe, enabling high-performance semiconductor production without dependence on advanced non-European manufacturing nodes. Instead of smaller structures, the focus is on better architecture.
INCIRT’s technology targets data- and energy-intensive markets such as satellite communication and mobile infrastructure.
In satellites, the architecture enables significantly higher data rates with lower energy consumption. This creates headroom within the limited power budget, allows more antennas per satellite, more data per orbit and longer mission duration while reducing the cost per transmitted bit.
In telecommunications INCIRT enables new radio and system architectures. Network operators benefit from higher capacity at the same energy consumption, lower operating costs and future-proof platforms for the evolution of 5G and beyond.
The funding accelerates product development and industrialisation. It enables further development of the technology, its validation as well as the preparation of initial customer projects and market entry.
“Our architecture enables performance gains that are hardly achievable with classical semiconductor development,” says Oner Hanay, co-founder and CEO of INCIRT. “At the same time, we demonstrate that high-performance chips can also be realized with European manufacturing technology. This is both technologically and strategically a decisive step towards Europe’s digital sovereignty. One goal, for example, is that in ten years all European satellite constellations – around 5,000 to 10,000 units – will be equipped with INCIRT technology.”
