OSR Enterprises AG announced the acquisition of Israel-based MAISENSE, marking a significant step in its strategy to expand its next-generation AI compute platform. The deal integrates MAISENSE’s plasmonic system-on-chip technology directly into OSR’s EVOLVER platform, which serves as the company’s core AI brain and compute infrastructure.
MAISENSE was founded in 2016 by Dr. Moshik Cohen and developed SONIC, a plasmonic compute chip that OSR says will accelerate the company’s roadmap for high-performance and energy-efficient AI systems. By merging SONIC with the EVOLVER stack, OSR plans to deliver AI compute capabilities that reach beyond conventional semiconductor architectures.
OSR stated that the combined technologies will create a new compute layer that compresses hyperscale performance into compact, energy-efficient hardware. This approach reduces infrastructure requirements, avoids reliance on GPU-focused models, and enables enterprises, sovereign ecosystems, and industrial applications to adopt AI systems at a significantly greater scale.
With this acquisition, OSR aims to reshape how compute resources are deployed across automotive, edge, industrial, and sovereign environments. The unified platform is positioned to help customers achieve large-scale AI performance while meeting more efficient power requirements and smaller physical footprints.
KEY QUOTES:
“We are thrilled to bring MAISENSE’s hyperscale plasmonic SoC technology into OSR’s product family. By combining their chip-level compute capabilities with our system-level AI brain, we are laying the foundation for a compute model that blurs the line between edge and hyperscale, unlocking new markets and accelerating deployment across automotive, industrial, and sovereign AI environments.”
“The next ten orders of magnitude in AI performance will not come from burning more megawatts-through heat and electrons-but through physics that outruns them. OSR is leading the way into this new era of AI compute.”
Orit Shifman, Founder And Group CEO, OSR Enterprises AG
