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StartupsGlobal / Other·Ranked Friday, May 29, 2026

This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory

XCENA raises $135M betting memory bandwidth, not compute, limits AI.

South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
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