What Epic Semi does

Epic Semi is a private semiconductor and AI infrastructure company that designs and sells RISC-V based compute, AI accelerators, storage, liquid cooling, and interconnect products targeting sovereign AI, neocloud, enterprise AI, agentic AI, edge AI, and physical AI/robotics workloads. Its core technology combines proprietary RISC-V CPU+AI superchip silicon (Contrail Compute 5000 Series with 48 heterogeneous cores delivering up to 75 TOPS INT8), in-house SSD controllers (DP800 with PCIe 5.0 transparent compression and DP600 with Flash RAID 2.0), rack-scale liquid cooling up to 1800kW, and high-speed AEC/ACC/DAC interconnect supporting 800G to 1.6T. The portfolio is organized under the E.P.I.C. framework (Contrail for Cloud AI, Echelon for Edge AI, Pegasus for Physical AI, Ionos for IoT) and includes integrated servers such as the S8400I AI server and S8200F all-flash storage server.

The company is dual-headquartered in Santa Clara, California and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with engineering offices in Lahore, Pakistan and Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, and positions itself to bridge Western hyperscaler/neocloud customers with Middle East sovereign AI procurement tied to Saudi Vision 2030. Its go-to-market combines enterprise field sales with Field Application Engineers running proofs-of-concept, a Supermicro authorized reseller channel for immediate compute delivery, and active participation in industry events such as RISC-V Summit Europe 2026. Revenue is generated primarily through hardware sales across semiconductors, storage, cooling, and interconnect, supplemented by system integration and professional services covering RTL design, physical design, tapeout, silicon bring-up, and production support. Pricing is quote-based with no public list prices, consistent with large enterprise engagements.

Name

Epic Semi

Legal name

Epic Semi

Website

https://epicsemi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Epic Semi is a private semiconductor and AI infrastructure company that designs RISC-V compute, AI accelerators, NVMe storage, liquid cooling, and high-speed interconnect for sovereign AI, neocloud, enterprise AI, and edge AI data centers, with dual headquarters in the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Semiconductor Infrastructure

NAICS

Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (3341), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Electronic Computers (3571), Computer Storage Devices (3572), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Compute & Acceleration ICs (CPU/GPU/AI/FPGA/ASIC) (HDAHABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Server Systems & HGX/Accelerator Platforms (HDAAAAAB), AI Datacenter Power, Cooling & Racks (liquid cooling, power delivery) (HDAAAAAH), Edge AI Hardware & NPUs (SoCs, modules, accelerators) (HDAAAJAC)

Keywords

• AI infrastructure hardware
• RISC-V semiconductors
• Data center storage
• Liquid cooling solutions
• High-speed interconnect

Headquarters

HQ city

Ar Riyadh

HQ country

Saudi Arabia

HQ region

Middle East

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales - Semiconductors: Sale of AI accelerators, CPUs, and compute platforms including Contrail Compute servers and the Contrail AIX AI execution platform.
2. Hardware Sales - Storage: Enterprise NVMe SSD sales including Contrail Flash CF6 and CF5 series with capacities from 3.2TB to 61.44TB for AI data centers.
3. Hardware Sales - Cooling Systems: Rack-scale liquid cooling solutions including CDU, RDHX heat exchangers, chillers, and rack emulators for high-density AI data centers.
4. Hardware Sales - Interconnect: High-speed cable assemblies including AEC, ACC, DAC for data-intensive AI infrastructure connectivity.
5. System Integration & Professional Services: End-to-end AI infrastructure solutions including architecture, specification, RTL design, physical design, tapeout, silicon bring-up, and production support.
6. Supermicro Reseller: Authorized reseller of Supermicro products delivering scalable compute solutions for modern computing demands and AI-driven workloads.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Epic Semi designs and sells vertically integrated AI infrastructure hardware spanning RISC-V CPUs, AI accelerators, NVMe SSDs with proprietary controllers, rack-scale liquid cooling systems, and high-speed interconnect cables. Products are delivered under the Contrail (Cloud AI), Echelon (Edge AI), Pegasus (Physical AI), and Ionos (IoT) portfolios to enable rack-scale build-outs for sovereign AI, neocloud, and enterprise deployments. The company also provides system integration and professional services including architecture, RTL design, physical design, tapeout, silicon bring-up, and production support.

Product overview

Epic Semi is a next-generation AI infrastructure and semiconductor company building optimized silicon, systems, and rack-scale solutions for the AI era. The company's portfolio is organized under the EPIC framework with four market segments: CONTRAIL (Cloud AI), ECHELON (Edge AI), PEGASUS (Physical AI), and IONOS (IoT). The CONTRAIL Cloud AI portfolio includes Contrail Flash NVMe SSDs (CF6100, CF6300, CF5100, CF5300, CF5060), Contrail Compute RISC-V CPUs (5010C, 5030U, 5050I, 5070D) and AI Execution Platform (Contrail AIX), Contrail Cool liquid cooling systems (CDU L2L, CDU L2A, RDHX, Chiller, Load Bank, Rack Emulator), and Contrail Connect interconnect cables (AEC, ACC, DAC, Loopback Tester). Server products include S8200G (general-purpose), S8200H (integrated with GPU), S8400I (AI server), and S8200F (all-flash storage). The company is dual-headquartered in the US and Saudi Arabia with global engineering operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Epic: Portfolio brand covering AI chip and solution portfolio addressing four market segments: Edge AI (Echelon), Physical AI (Pegasus), IoT & Interconnect (Ionos), and Cloud AI (Contrail).
• Contrail
• Echelon
• Pegasus
• Ionos

Products and services

• Contrail AIX AI Execution Platform World's first RISC-V AI execution platform combining 32 server-class RISC-V CPU cores with 16 AI acceleration cores, delivering up to 75 TOPS (INT8) for LLM inference, RAG, agentic AI orchestration, and sovereign AI deployments.
• Contrail Flash CF6100 SSD First PCIe 5.0 transparent compression enterprise SSD with in-house DP800 controller, NVMe 2.0 support, 3D eTLC NAND, up to 15.36TB capacity and 14500 MB/s read bandwidth for AI data centers.
• Contrail Flash CF6300 SSD PCIe Gen5 transparent compression SSD with the in-house DP800 controller, supporting capacity expansion based on data compressibility for AI and enterprise workloads.
• Contrail Flash CF5100 SSD PCIe Gen5 enterprise SSD using a Marvell Bravera controller with in-house firmware, 3D eTLC NAND, up to 2800K random read IOPS, supporting EDSFF E1.S/E3.S/U.2 form factors.
• Contrail Flash CF5300 SSD PCIe Gen5 enterprise SSD with Marvell Bravera controller, in-house firmware, 3 DWPD endurance, OCP 2.5 and TCG OPAL 2.0 security support.
• Contrail Flash CF5060 SSD PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD with 3D QLC NAND, up to 61.44TB capacity, designed for read-intensive AI, cloud storage, and big data workloads.
• Contrail Compute 5010C RISC-V CPU Community version RISC-V CPU (CP5010C) with RVA23 and RVV 1.0, single-core performance exceeding 16/GHz (SPEC2006), up to 1TB DDR5 memory, and programmable AI acceleration cluster.
• Contrail Compute 5030U RISC-V CPU University and research institute RISC-V CPU (CP5030U) with RVA23, RVV 1.0, up to 4TB DDR5 memory, enterprise-grade RAS, and Kubernetes/Xvisor/Podman hypervisor support.
• Contrail Compute 5050I Dual-Socket RISC-V CPU AI and intelligent computing dual-socket CPU platform with 2x CP5050I, RVA23 and RVV 1.0, 800W power consumption, designed for HPC and AI workloads.
• Contrail Compute 5070D Data Center CPU Data center RISC-V CPU (CP5070D) with RVA23, RVV 1.0, up to 4TB DDR5 memory and PCIe Gen5, designed for 2U and 4U high-performance servers.
• Contrail Compute S8200G General-Purpose Server 2U general-purpose server with high-density compute power and expansive storage capacity, supporting VMware, KVM, and multi-tenant cloud environments for databases, edge, and web services.
• Contrail Compute S8200H Integrated Server 2U integrated server with GPU modules and built-in AI frameworks, supporting VMware vSAN/Nutanix HCI, real-time video analytics, Oracle Exadata compatibility, and medical imaging processing.
• Contrail Compute S8400I AI Server AI server delivering city-scale computing with CPU+AI accelerator integration, supporting 5G network intelligence, financial decision processing, and LLM inference with multi-GPU interconnection.
• Contrail Compute S8200F All-Flash Storage Server All-flash storage server with distributed NAS architecture, supporting 8K video streaming, financial HFT, medical imaging AI diagnostics, and large-scale model inference with liquid cooling.
• Contrail Cool CDU L2L 1800 Liquid-to-Liquid CDU Liquid-to-liquid cooling system with 1800kW rated cooling capacity, supporting NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks, with redundant pumps, power supplies, and N+1 configuration.
• Contrail Cool CDU L2A 240 Liquid-to-Air CDU Liquid-to-air cooling system with 120kW rated cooling capacity, designed for NVIDIA GB200 NVL36/72 racks with ASHRAE A2 air cooling support.
• Contrail Cool RDHX30 Rear-Door Heat Exchanger Rear-door heat exchanger with 30kW rated cooling capacity, featuring copper tube aluminum fin design for server and switch heat dissipation.
• Contrail Cool Chiller 1000/2000 Air-cooled chillers with 1000kW and 2000kW cooling capacities using R1234ze refrigerant and magnetic bearing compressors; supports dual cooling water branches for CDU and RDHX products.
• Contrail Cool Rack Level Emulator GB200 NVL72 emulator with OCP ORV3 rack and 18x1U TTV load banks, enabling full rack thermal power simulation up to 122kW; NVIDIA-verified design.
• Contrail Cool Load Bank GPU heat dissipation test equipment with 500kW rated liquid heating power, supporting PG25/DI-water coolant and 50kW power steps for liquid cooling data center verification.
• Contrail Connect AEC Active Electrical Cable Active Electrical Cables with re-timer chips at both ends for superior signal integrity, supporting 800G Ethernet and InfiniBand NDR with power consumption under 20W per end.
• Contrail Connect ACC Active Copper Cable Active Copper Cables with re-driver at the receiving end for extended reach, supporting 800G and 1.6T data rates with power consumption under 2.5W per end.
• Contrail Connect DAC Direct Attach Cable Direct Attach Cables for cost-efficient short-range connectivity, with passive design, ultra-low latency, under 0.1W per end, supporting data rates from 25G to 400G.
• Contrail Connect Loopback Tester Compact tool for testing and monitoring network port performance in switches and servers, supporting data rates from 25G to 1.6T with temperature, voltage, and status monitoring.
• EPIC Echelon Edge AI Platform Tiered, low-latency edge inference platform for factory lines, smart cities, and energy sites, scaling from single node to fleet without changing the control stack.
• EPIC Pegasus Physical AI Platform Computer vision, reasoning, planning, and actuation platform for robots and autonomous systems, enabling inspection and pick-and-place operations.
• EPIC Ionos IoT Platform Deterministic device connectivity through cellular, WiFi/BLE or power line communications, with secure telemetry and over-the-air control for IoT deployments.
• Semiconductor Design & System Integration Services End-to-end AI infrastructure and semiconductor design services including architecture/specification, RTL design & verification, physical design & DFT, tapeout & silicon bring-up, and production support & yield optimization.

Named customers1 record

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SupermicrocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorEpic Semi is an authorized reseller of Supermicro products, delivering scalable and reliable compute solutions designed to support modern computing demands and advanced AI-driven workloads.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Broad incumbents

• AMD: AMD offers EPYC server CPUs and MI300/MI325 AI accelerators, competing with Epic Semi's Contrail Compute and Contrail AIX at the data-center and AI-inference layers.
• Vertiv: Vertiv is a global incumbent in data center thermal management (CDUs, chillers, RDHX) and competes with Epic Semi's Contrail Cool line for high-density AI data center deployments.
• NVIDIA: NVIDIA dominates AI compute with H100/B200 GPUs and the GB200 NVL72 rack platform that Epic Semi's Contrail Cool CDU is engineered to support. It is the broad incumbent whose CUDA moat and scale Epic must beat or complement.

Others

• Supermicro: Supermicro is both a channel partner (Epic Semi is an authorized reseller) and a comparable AI server systems vendor. Its rack-scale AI servers compete with Epic's S8200G/S8200H/S8400I line in enterprise procurement.
• Marvell Technology: Marvell supplies the Bravera PCIe Gen5 SSD controllers used in Epic Semi's Contrail Flash CF5100/CF5300, while also competing with the in-house DP800 controller in higher-end SKUs. It is both a supplier and an adjacent storage-silicon peer.

Direct peers

• Solidigm: Solidigm (a SK hynix subsidiary) is a leading supplier of high-capacity QLC enterprise SSDs (e.g., 61.44TB D5-P5430) that directly compete with Epic Semi's Contrail Flash CF5060 for AI and big data storage workloads.
• Ventana Micro Systems: Ventana builds RISC-V server CPUs (e.g., Veyron V2) targeting data center workloads. It competes head-on with Epic Semi's Contrail Compute 5050I/5070D for RISC-V data center sockets.
• Lambda Labs: Lambda is a neocloud / AI infrastructure provider that designs and ships GPU clusters and servers to AI startups and enterprises — a comparable business model for serving AI-native customers, though focused on NVIDIA-based systems today.
• SiFive: SiFive designs RISC-V CPU IP and application processors, including data-center-class cores. It is the most direct RISC-V peer to Epic Semi's Contrail Compute line, competing for the same hyperscaler and sovereign-AI design slots.

Emerging players

• Rivos: Rivos is developing RISC-V server-class SoCs with integrated AI acceleration for analytics and ML workloads. It overlaps with Epic Semi's CPU+AI superchip positioning, though at an earlier commercialization stage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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