Fungible Inc.

Fungible Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops hardware and software to improve the performance, reliability and economics of data centers.[6]

Fungible Inc.
TypePrivately held company
IndustryData Center Technology
Founded2015 (2015)
Founders
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
,
United States
Key people
Pradeep Sindhu CEO
Number of employees
200[5]
Websitewww.fungible.com

History

The company was founded in 2015 by Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder and chief scientist of Juniper Networks, and Bertrand Serlet, former senior vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc.[7][8]

In February 2017, the company raised $32 million in a series A round, led by Mayfield Fund, Walden Riverwood Ventures and Battery Ventures.[9] In May, the company raised an additional $60 million in a series B, led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Redline capital.[10]

In June 2019, the company raised $200 million in a Series C funding round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund, along with Norwest Venture Partners and existing investors.[11] By then, the company had 200 employees.[5]

In September 2019, Fungible announced the appointment of former Dell and IBM CTO Dr. Jai Menon as its chief scientist.[12]

Products

Fungible develops a new category of programmable microprocessors called Data Processing Units (DPU), designed to accelerate the processing of data-centric workloads within data centers.[13][14] The DPU acts as a data traffic controller, shuttling traffic from the network to central processing units (CPU) and graphics processing units (GPU) from other chip makers. DPUs enable a high speed data center fabric between DPU-enabled compute and storage servers.[11][14]

The microprocessors enable the next evolution of data center infrastructure known as composable disaggregated infrastructure, which is a way for data centers to improve their architecture by disassociating compute and storage elements, removing the physical limitations of existing servers.[15] Data center resources can be pooled and aggregated dynamically over a high speed data fabric.[16]

References
  1. Mellor, Chris (2020-02-11). "Fungible aims to slay the CPU bogeyman with composable microprocessor". Blocks and Files. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  2. Greenwald, Ted (2017-02-07). "Juniper Networks Founder Embarks on Cloud-Style Chip Venture". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  3. Mellor, Chris (2020-02-11). "Fungible aims to slay the CPU bogeyman with composable microprocessor". Blocks and Files. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  4. Greenwald, Ted (2017-02-07). "Juniper Networks Founder Embarks on Cloud-Style Chip Venture". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  5. "Fungible raises $200M Series C with aim to improve data centers". bizjournals.com. 2019-06-27. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  6. "Fungible CEO on improving economics, reliability and performance of data centers". www.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  7. "Juniper Networks co-founder steps aside to lead cloud startup". www.bizjournals.com. 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  8. "Juniper founder's new startup Fungible raises $200M for data processing unit". SiliconANGLE. 2019-06-27. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  9. "Juniper Networks Founder Embarks on Cloud-Style Chip Venture". wsj.com. 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  10. "Series B - Fungible". crunchbase.com. 2017-05-30. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  11. "Fungible raises $200 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund to help companies handle increasingly massive amounts of data". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  12. Fungible. "Former Dell and IBM Executive Joins Fungible as Chief Scientist". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  13. "Fungible raises $200 million for datacenter computing". VentureBeat. 2019-06-27. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
  14. "To handle the data tsunami, Juniper's founder turns to custom silicon". SiliconANGLE. 2018-11-30. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  15. "Next-Gen Data Center Vendor Fungible Raises $200M In Funding". crn.com. 2019-06-27. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  16. "Words to go: Composable disaggregated infrastructure glossary". techtarget.com. 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
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