Kandou

Kandou (Kandou AI) is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2011 by Amin Shokrollahi and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. It designs high-speed, energy-efficient chip-to-chip interconnect technology built on its proprietary Copper MIMO / Chord Signaling architecture, which turns noise in copper channels into usable bandwidth for massively scalable AI systems. Products include the Glasswing chiplet interconnect IP, the Regli PCIe retimer, the Matterhorn USB4 retimer, the Zetti PCIe switch, and AI Fabric memory/networking platforms. Chord signaling has been adopted into JEDEC and OIF industry specifications. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners across multiple rounds, Kandou raised a $225M round in March 2026 led by Maverick Silicon with strategic participation from SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence, and Alchip. This is a hardware/semiconductor IP company with no public REST/GraphQL API, SDK, or developer platform surface.

Kandou is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, Hardware, Chiplets, and Interconnect.

Kandou’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, YouTube channel, and 8 more developer resources.

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12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySemiconductorsHardwareChipletsInterconnectSerDesAI InfrastructureDeep Tech

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Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Source (apis.yml)

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  Copper MIMO / Chord Signaling architecture, which turns noise in copper channels into usable bandwidth for massively scalable
  AI systems. Products include the Glasswing chiplet interconnect IP, the Regli PCIe retimer, the Matterhorn USB4 retimer,
  the Zetti PCIe switch, and AI Fabric memory/networking platforms. Chord signaling has been adopted into JEDEC and OIF industry
  specifications. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners across multiple rounds, Kandou raised a $225M round in March 2026 led
  by Maverick Silicon with strategic participation from SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence, and Alchip. This is a hardware/semiconductor
  IP company with no public REST/GraphQL API, SDK, or developer platform surface.
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