NextSilicon is an Israeli unicorn developing next-generation intelligent compute architecture for High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI. Their flagship Maverick-2 chip uses software-defined hardware that dynamically reconfigures at runtime, offering performance that competes with Nvidia GPUs. Founded in 2017 by CEO Elad Raz, NextSilicon has raised over $270M and achieved unicorn status with a ~$1.5B valuation.