# Kandou

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kandou/  
**Website:** https://www.kandou.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 10.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Kandou Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Semiconductors, Hardware, Chiplets, Interconnect, SerDes, AI Infrastructure, Deep Tech

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kandou/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.