FuriosaAI is setting up a local entity in Singapore and moving to secure artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor customers in the Asia-Pacific region. It will use the office as a base to expand overseas commercial supply of its second-generation AI inference accelerator RNGD, which entered mass production in January.
FuriosaAI said on the 11th that it established a local entity, FuriosaAI Singapore Pte. Ltd., in Singapore. The entity will handle business development, sales, and technical support in the Asia-Pacific region and will be led by Addison Chi, FuriosaAI's vice president of sales for Asia-Pacific.
Based in Singapore, FuriosaAI plans to expand cooperation with corporations and governments across the Asia-Pacific region, including Southeast Asia, as well as cloud service providers (CSPs) and infrastructure companies. It will also increase local staffing to support customers from initial technical validation through deployment in production environments.
Its flagship product is the RNGD AI accelerator for data centers. A Neural Processing Unit (NPU) is a semiconductor designed to efficiently handle AI model inference computations. RNGD is designed to handle inference for large language models (LLMs), multimodal models that process multiple types of data such as images and text, and agentic AI that performs multiple tasks autonomously.
RNGD entered mass production in January. According to FuriosaAI, the NXT RNGD server equipped with eight RNGD cards runs on about 3 kilowatts (kW) of power and can operate in air-cooled data centers without separate liquid-cooling facilities.
In Korea, Samsung SDS and LG AI Research Institute have adopted RNGD. Samsung SDS in July launched Neural Processing Unit as a Service (NPUaaS) based on RNGD.
FuriosaAI currently has overseas bases in Silicon Valley in the United States and Lisbon in Portugal, in addition to its Seoul headquarters. With the establishment of the Singapore entity, it plans to expand the acquisition of customers and infrastructure partners in the Asia-Pacific region, following Europe and the United States.
Baek Jun-ho, CEO of FuriosaAI, said, "Asia-Pacific is rapidly growing into a key region in the global AI infrastructure market as corporations adopt advanced AI amid power and infrastructure constraints in data centers," and added, "Through our Singapore base, we will work more closely with customers and partners in the region and support efforts from RNGD's technical validation through full-scale commercial deployment."