Mission and Values

Mission

Abacus Semiconductor Corporations’ mission is to broaden the deployment of High Performance Compute (HPC) including AI and ML training with LLMs by making it cheaper, easier to use and more energy-efficient while at the same time improving performance and cybersecurity. We want to enable our customers to build personal supercomputers so that scientists requiring intense computational capabilities to simulate the outcome of decisions affecting the viability of human life can do so in an easy-to-use way. We envision deskside and half-rack supercomputers built with our processors, accelerators and smart multi-homed memories to support users in building digital twins for any system that scientists and engineers need to assess so that better decisions can be made.

In less than 30 years, or a generation’s worth of time, there will be 9 billion humans on planet Earth. Feeding those people will require growing and distributing the food with minimal waste and spoilage. We also need to ensure everyone can live a healthy life, get unrestricted access to educational opportunities so that we can all play a better role in reducing the global birthrate. Simultaneously, we must reduce CO2 production so that global warming can be stopped or ideally reversed. To do so, we must be able to simulate the outcome of each decision prior to implementing it, and that requires us to simulate the impact at faster than real-time. This will enable us to make more decisions in furtherance of those goals while avoiding the negative impacts of decisions made with incomplete information.

While Earth will continue to exist without us, survival of humans is entirely dependent on our decisions. The more decisions we make to support human life and sustainability, the more likely it is that our species will survive. Abacus Semiconductor Corporation wants to be a key participant in this process.

Values

We strive to fully live by our values. As imperfect beings, we may fall short occasionally - but we pledge to accept our failures, learn from our mistakes, and continually improve.

  • We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental characteristics or disabilities, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, marital, parental, or veteran status.
  • We pledge to actively listen to stakeholders' perspectives and criticisms. We encourage lively, fact-based arguments.
  • We value diversity in all of its facets. We are committed to the inclusion, at the highest level of management, and the development of leadership from historically underrepresented groups (e.g., women, LGBTQ, people of color).
  • We value hard work, smarts, high ethical standards, strong morals and active engagement in environmental causes.
  • We pledge to hire and promote based on merit using objective and subjective criteria in a transparent review process.
  • We act on facts. We operate based on data. We speak with numbers and are intolerant of misinformation.
  • We firmly believe in democracy and its promise of self-determination. Though democracy may be imperfect, it is the best form of government that humans have invented. We strive to improve on the foundation we were fortunate enough to inherit.