PowerLattice Raises $25 Million to Break the AI Power Wall

PowerLattice, the company reimagining power delivery for next-generation AI accelerators, led by Dr. Peng Zou, Gang Ren, and Sujith Dermal, has announced its emergence from stealth with $25 million in Series A funding jointly led by Playground Global and Celesta Capital. The company’s power-delivery chiplet tightly couples power and compute, cutting total power needs by over 50% and effectively doubling performance. PowerLattice has raised $31 million to date.

AI accelerators now exceed 2 KW per chip, pushing data centers to their energy limits. Traditional power delivery wastes energy by sending high current across long, resistive paths, and at this pace, U.S. data center demand could triple by 2028.

PowerLattice solves this with the industry’s first power-delivery chiplet, bringing power directly into the processor package. Using miniaturized on-die magnetic inductors, advanced voltage control, a vertical design, and a programmable software layer, the chiplet tightly couples power and compute, delivering energy exactly where it’s needed.

PowerLattice’s chiplet integrates directly into existing SoCs, shortening the power path to boost utilization, cut energy loss by over 50%, and effectively double compute performance. With silicon built and samples for 1 KW+ GPUs and accelerators underway, the company is ready to power the next generation of AI infrastructure.

PowerLattice was founded by Peng Zou, Gang Ren, and Sujith Dermal, veterans in integrated magnetics, analog IC, power management, and system design with experience at Qualcomm, NUVIA, and Intel. Pat Gelsinger of Playground Global and Dr. Steve Fu of Celesta Capital have joined the board, highlighting the strategic significance of PowerLattice’s technology across the semiconductor industry.