Epic Semi unveils KSA-rooted silicon portfolio to power AI from cloud to edge at Riyadh launch

“KSA’s 1st Chip Powerhouse – Unleashing AI from Cloud to Edge.”

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – 30 October 2025: Epic Semi announced the launch of its Saudi-rooted semiconductor portfolio at the Epic Semi Launch and Celebratory Event held yesterday at Hilton Riyadh Hotel & Residences. Bringing together government stakeholders, technology leaders, investors and media, the event showcased EPIC Semi’s partner-first, full-stack EPIC portfolio designed for AI infrastructure, smart city, and smart manufacturing use cases-advancing Saudi Arabia’s technological independence and export ambitions.

Dr. Naveed Sherwani, Chief Executive Officer, EPIC Semi, said: “Today marks a pivotal step in building a sovereign, globally competitive semiconductor ecosystem in Saudi Arabia. With our EPIC portfolio of Edge AI, Physical AI, IoT and Cloud AI solutions and a partner-first model, we are enabling AI-from the cloud to the edge-while creating new opportunities for startups, scale-ups and global players to innovate here in the Kingdom.”

A  first for the Kingdom: Local content, partner ecosystem, full stack

  • KSA-rooted silicon portfolio: EPIC Semi is positioning the Kingdom as a major player in chip design and innovation, offering a full stack (EPIC) that addresses compute, connectivity and system needs across data centers, devices and industrial automation.
  • Local content & sovereignty:  In line with Vision 2030, Epic Semi is the first Saudi fabless semiconductor company-built to strengthen national supply assurance and competitiveness in the Kingdom, extend across the Middle East, and scale globally.
  • Broad portfolio, cloud first with  roadmap: The company is launching a new product portfolio led with Cloud AI and a committed roadmap into Edge, Physical AI, and IoT, integrated with local AI models/software so programs ship outcomes, not parts.

Product Portfolio:  Epic’s  extensive AI chip and solution portfolio addresses four critical market segments:

  1. EPIC Echelon — Edge AI

Tiered, low-latency inference that lives where your data is born—factory lines, smart cities, and energy sites. Scale from single node to fleet without changing the control stack.

  • EPIC Pegasus — Physical AI

Computer vision, reasoning, planning, and actuation for robots and autonomous systems. From inspection to pick-and-place, Pegasus turns intent into safe, smooth motion.

  • EPIC Ionos — IoT & Interconnect

Deterministic device connectivity through cellular, WiFi/BLE or power line communications, with secure telemetry, and over-the-air control.

  • EPIC Contrail — Cloud AI

Rich portfolio of modern CPU compute, AI accelerations, data center interconnect, memory and storage, and liquid cooling, to support state of the art AI infrastructure build-out at rack scale.

New Products Unleashed:

EPIC Contrail is our cloud-scale portfolio engineered to drive $/token, J/token, and ms/token down for AI training and inference.

  • EPIC Contrail FlashPCIe Gen5 SSDs for AI data centers
    High-performance, dense-capacity, power-efficient NVMe drives optimized for AI workloads (checkpoints, datasets, vector DBs).
  • EPIC Contrail ComputeModern-architecture server CPU+AI superchip for the AI era
    A compute platform designed for high concurrency and memory bandwidth, tuned for AI services to run LLMs such as DeepSeek, LLaMA.
  • EPIC Contrail CoolLiquid-cooling for AI racks
    Rack-scale liquid-cooling (CDU/CDX options) to enable higher power densities with lower PUE and quieter ops. Engineered for reliability, easy service, and rapid deployment across new builds and retrofits.

With more than US$550 billion invested in national flagship projects such as NEOM and technology zones, Saudi Arabia’s semiconductor sector-driven by Epic Semi and the National Semiconductor Hub-is positioned to create tens of thousands of high-skill jobs and  support regional leadership in the industry – an opportunity Epic Semi intends to serve with a KSA-rooted, globally scaled product portfolio. .

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