Gigantor Wins Arm Silicon Startups Contest 2025: Fueling the Future of Edge AI
May 20, 2025 – Melbourne Beach, FL
We’re thrilled to share that Gigantor Technologies has been named the winner of the Arm Silicon Startups Contest 2025—an honor that recognizes our commitment to redefining the limits of AI inference at the edge. This prestigious award comes with $250,000 in Arm technology credit, zero-cost access to a broad portfolio of Arm IP, and global visibility through Arm’s ecosystem.
https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-silicon-startup-contest-2025-winners
This recognition, held in partnership with Silicon Catalyst, affirms what we’ve believed from the start: solving the real challenges of edge AI demands new thinking, not just smaller transistors.
Rethinking Edge AI from the Ground Up
At Gigantor, we asked a simple question: Why are we still using general-purpose architectures for edge inference? The answer led us to create GigaMAACS—a radically different approach that uses a pipelined circuit design, not instruction-based processing. The result? Deterministic throughput, microsecond-level latency, and up to 90% less power usage in real-time edge environments.
Our FPGA demo of four simultaneous HD video feeds at 60fps with zero dropped frames is just the beginning. With Arm’s Flexible Access IP and engineering support, we’re accelerating our path to silicon and bringing this architecture to customers that demand real-time intelligence—across AR/XR, autonomous systems, and industrial edge applications.
Why Arm + Gigantor = A Perfect Fit
As part of the Arm prize package, we’ll integrate Arm cores into our system to manage model switching, inference outputs, and system-level orchestration—the ideal complement to our acceleration engine. Arm’s efficiency, ecosystem, and engineering toolchain are exactly what we need to take GigaMAACS from prototype to tape-out—fast.
The Arm team’s vision for empowering early-stage silicon innovators through no-cost IP and startup-specific resources is reshaping what’s possible in custom compute. For a hardware-first company like ours, this support is not just helpful—it’s transformative.
What This Means for Our Customers and Partners
Winning this contest isn’t just a milestone—it’s market validation. It signals to our future customers, partners, and investors that Gigantor is building a future-ready solution for the next era of edge computing. We’re not chasing Moore’s Law. We’re rewriting it for edge AI.
Don Gaspar, our founder and CEO, put it best:
“The contest gives us validation, IP, and tools we wouldn’t normally have access to. It moves us faster toward customers, production, and impact.”
We’re deeply grateful to Arm and Silicon Catalyst for this opportunity—and even more excited for what’s next.
If you’re developing a system that demands real-time AI performance without compromise, we’d love to talk.
— Team Gigantor
Giants of Edge AI Acceleration
www.gigantor.com
