SOS Lab teams up with chip startup Semunite to run AI on low-power NPUs inside its LiDAR products

KOSDAQ-listed LiDAR maker SOS Lab has signed a memorandum of understanding with Semunite, a fabless AI-chip startup, to combine its LiDAR sensors with Semunite's neural processing units and look for joint business in autonomous mobility, smart infrastructure and robotics, Korean trade daily Robot Newspaper reported on Oct 13, citing the company.

The partners plan to explore product tie-ups, run field demonstrations, bid jointly for national R&D and government programmes and work together on new domestic and overseas business, according to the report.

Semunite, founded in August 2025 per the report, is building purpose-built NPUs for voice, vision and small language models with a processing-in-memory-like design that it says covers 0.15 to 20 TOPS; SOS Lab chief executive Jung Ji-sung said LiDAR becomes far more useful once it can recognise and judge a scene on the device.

No financial terms or product dates were given, and SOS Lab had not posted its own release on the MOU at the time of writing. The deal follows SOS Lab's ML-I solid-state LiDAR for parking and roadside infrastructure, which MEKAWIRE covered on Oct 15; the company's website lists more than 140 employees as of October 2026.