PowerLattice attracts investment from ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger for its power saving chiplet (techcrunch.com)

PowerLattice, a 2023 startup founded by veteran engineers from Qualcomm, NUVIA and Intel, emerged from stealth with a $25M Series A (led by Playground Global and Celesta Capital) — bringing total funding to $31M — and backing from former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. The company says it has developed a tiny power-delivery chiplet that moves voltage regulation closer to the processor, cutting energy loss in the power distribution network and reducing chip power needs by more than 50%. TSMC has produced PowerLattice’s first batch of chiplets and an unnamed partner is testing functionality, with wider customer trials planned for the first half of 2026. For the AI/ML community, that kind of efficiency gain would be material: training and inference at scale are increasingly constrained by datacenter power and thermal budgets, so a chiplet that lowers distribution losses and improves transient response could enable denser accelerators, lower operating costs, and simpler board/power-rail designs. PowerLattice’s approach complements internal silicon optimization and could be adopted by major ASIC vendors (Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom) and AI-chip startups. It also positions the company against rivals like Empower Semiconductor. Gelsinger’s involvement is a strong industry signal and, if tests validate the >50% claim, PowerLattice could attract much larger production funding and rapid partner adoption.