Zeropoint Tech

ZeroPoint Technologies develops hardware compression IP for the memory and storage hierarchy of semiconductor designs. The technology compresses and decompresses data transparently in silicon, combining ultra-fast data compression with real-time data compaction and transparent memory management, so an existing memory subsystem delivers more effective bandwidth and capacity without changes to the memory architecture.

The company frames the problem it addresses as the widening gap between compute capability and memory bandwidth: AI accelerators are described as spending more time waiting for data than computing, with KV cache, model weights and activations contending for the same bus, and adding DRAM carrying power and area costs. Its product family spans ZeroStream (transparent point-to-point streaming compression and decompression for activations, KV cache and weight streaming, targeting AI accelerators, CPUs and networking SoCs, with up to 2x effective bandwidth); ZeroAI (built for AI data patterns, offered in software-compress/hardware-decompress and full hardware configurations, and including remappers for compressed random access across inference and training workloads); ZeroConnect CXL (hardware compression for CXL-based memory expansion to multiply usable memory capacity, supporting larger model context and lower total system cost without added DRAM); and ZeroStorage (compression for storage devices to raise effective density without sacrificing throughput).

Business model

The company supplies compression technology as licensable semiconductor IP blocks that customers integrate into their own chip designs.