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Extropic

Thermodynamic computing hardware and software developer

extropic.ai

Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 30–50
Industry: Semiconductors

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Latest news about Extropic

In short: Extropic signed a $75 million deal with the U.S. government and unveiled its energy-efficient Z1 thermodynamic chips for AI workloads.

Company announcements

August 4 Extropic

Extropic unveils scaling from one to one billion pbits

Torx and Thermalizers are open sourced, Z1 chip revealed with 269k pbits, early access planned in 2027.

July 29 Extropic

Extropic signs $75M CHIPS letter with US Commerce Department

Planned CHIPS R&D funding to scale thermodynamic sampling units for AI workloads and fabricate at American foundry.

June 25 Extropic

Extropic's TSUs run mRNA optimization at 1M× lower energy

The new paper and THRML code show hardware-grounded estimates of energy savings over GPUs for this pharma workload.

29 October 2025 Extropic

Extropic builds TSU hardware

TSU is a thermodynamic sampling unit for energy-efficient generative AI using probabilistic computing and Gibbs sampling. Z1 chip features hundreds of thousands of cells.

Media coverage

August 3 Interesting Engineering

Thermodynamic smart chips win $75M deal to beat GPUs and drastically slash power use

The US' thermodynamic smart chips could cut power use for generative AI and move production to American semiconductor fabs.

July 31 Tech Times

Memory, Fakes, and Thermodynamic Compute: CHIPS Act Bets $874M on Six AI Stack Gaps

CHIPS Act semiconductor funding reached $874 million July 29 as the Commerce Department signed letters of intent with seven companies targeting AI hardware chokepoints: ferroelectric...

July 30 Yahoo Finance

Extropic Signs $75 Million Letter of Intent with U.S. Department of Commerce to Scale and Onshore Thermodynamic Computing

Extropic, the American company pioneering thermodynamic computing hardware, today announced the signing of a letter of intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce for up...

March 25 Fortune

AI chips are getting too expensive—and too power-hungry. This startup just raised $50M to change that. | Fortune

Normal Computing is part of a growing group of startups exploring alternatives to conventional AI hardware, including Unconventional AI, led by former Intel AI chief...

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