❯ Mueon, founded by former Intel engineers, raises $65 million to develop 3D computing modules

Intel Capital invests tooMueon announced on October 15 a $65 million Series A led by chip fund Maverick Silicon, with Intel Capital, Oregon Venture Fund, IQT and others. The money will hire engineers, refine system design and move toward validation and production readiness.

Stacking chips and memoryAccording to SiliconANGLE, ordinary servers lay processors and memory flat on a motherboard; Mueon’s Cubelets stack them in layers, with wiring, power and cooling designed into the module, which Oregon Venture Fund calls “Legos for the data center.” Shorter data paths mean more speed and less power. The company claims up to 10x better power and cost efficiency, which hasn’t been independently verified.

Two former Intel engineersFounded in 2025, Mueon is led by CEO Wilfred Gomes, who worked on chip stacking at Intel, and CTO Jack Hwang, who helped develop Intel’s transistor etching techniques. It raised a $15.5 million seed round that year. Cubelets can host different chips including GPUs and Arm CPUs, and it is building software so common AI frameworks run on its hardware.

The tighter the stack, the harder to coolCooling is the hard part: processors and memory tolerate different maximum temperatures, a busy processor can overheat memory stacked above it, and heat from upper layers must pass through several layers to escape. Oregon Venture Fund says Mueon solved this but gave no details. Customers will buy only if it beats current options on cooling, reliability and total cost.

▮ SIGNALAI hardware competition is spreading beyond the single chip: how parts are stacked, cooled and powered also decides how much compute gets delivered.