Dnotitia designs processors for AI retrieval. Our founders come from Samsung and SK Telecom, and our North America team works with customers and partners in Silicon Valley.
AI agents search their data at every step. We think that search deserves hardware of its own, so we build VDPU: a processor that keeps vector data in its own memory and searches it where it sits.
We design the chip, the card and the software that connects it to the vector databases teams already use. We work directly with customers, from the first PoC to production.
The people building VDPU, with backgrounds at Samsung and SK Telecom.
CEOFormerly at SAPEON, SK Telecom and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST
CTOFormerly at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, and Principal Engineer at Samsung System LSI
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
CDOFormerly Database Design and Development Team Lead at SK Telecom; published in VLDB and TKDE
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Yonsei University
Dnotitia opened a San Jose office in November 2025 to work with customers and partners across North America, close to where they build.
Awards, lists and test results that have recognized Dnotitia and VDPU.
Future of Memory and Storage, Santa Clara, California, August 4–6, 2026. Dnotitia unveiled its first VDPU chip and accelerator card at the same show.
Dnotitia was also a finalist for the Startup Business Growth Award.
3 test reports
Recall above 99%, with single-query p99 latency of about 5 ms.
Tested within the accredited scope
p99 latency, single query: about 5 ms
Measured by the same lab, outside that scope
Recall above 99%
KOLAS: Korean national accreditation body (ILAC member).
Vector database category
The most innovative AI startups of 2025
Korea’s fastest-growing startups of the year
Press releases and the trade shows where you can see VDPU.
Dnotitia brings dedicated vector silicon to server scale at AI Infra Summit 2026
The first VDPU ASIC samples are in chip-level testing. In Santa Clara, Dnotitia showed a server with four VDPU cards built for vector retrieval.
Read the press release
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