Athos Spins Out Of Mercedes With Chiplet Concept for AVs
By Sally Ward-Foxton, EETimes | October 17, 2025
After five years of technology incubation, Athos Silicon has officially spun out of Mercedes-Benz. The startup was founded in March 2025 based on a research project underway at Mercedes since 2020. Mercedes has made a strategic investment in Athos, including “substantial” IP, according to the company, and the OEM and its spinout will continue to collaborate on Athos’ mSoC reference design, Polaris.
As far back as 2020, the Athos team had been looking at how to address functional safety for autonomy since silicon on the market wasn’t sufficient, Athos CEO Charnjiv Bangar told EE Times.
“That led us on this journey of fundamentally looking at what is needed for highly reliable and safe compute,” he said. “We started with the problem of autonomy, and with problem statements from [Mercedes’] functional safety teams and application teams in Germany, and built the architecture from the ground up.”
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