SiLC Technologies
Component
Silicon-photonics 4D+ FMCW LiDAR chip (Eyeonic) that gives machines range plus per-pixel velocity at low cost and power.
SiLC Technologies builds a 4D+ FMCW LiDAR vision chip on silicon photonics. Its Eyeonic chip integrates the photonics needed for a coherent vision sensor — frequency-modulated continuous-wave ranging plus Doppler — onto a small, low-power die, so a machine gets range, resolution and instantaneous velocity for every pixel rather than intensity alone. Detection spans short range to beyond one kilometre, in four packaged versions of the Eyeonic Vision System. Target markets are robotics, autonomous mobility, industrial automation, biometrics and security. SiLC argues the missing input for machine vision is not more pixels but the velocity and depth cues human eyes give the brain, and that FMCW silicon photonics delivers them at CMOS-compatible cost.
Research mapping
Physical AI / Perception & Sensing (L7) / Component
Evidence boundary
Original analysis and independent corroboration remain under development. Commercial scale and durable technical advantage remain under review.
What makes it defensible
Monolithic silicon-photonics FMCW engine — coherent detection plus Doppler on one chip — which is materially harder to build than time-of-flight or MEMS LiDAR.
Position in the stack: Sensor-chip layer: sells the perception die that robot and vehicle OEMs integrate, so it sits at the component bottleneck where vision fidelity is determined.
Who buys it
Founding team
Dr. Mehdi Asghari — Founder & CEO — Silicon-photonics veteran; previously VP of R&D at Bookham Technology and senior roles at Kotura and Mellanox
SourceFinancing detail
- Last round
- Series A
Investors: Hokuyo Automatic, ROHM Semiconductor, Hankook, Epson X Investment
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