aid: kneron
name: Kneron
description: 'Kneron is a full-stack edge AI company founded in October 2015 by Albert Liu and
  headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in Taipei. It designs its own
  reconfigurable neural processing unit (NPU) architecture and ships it as edge AI system-on-chip
  silicon — the KL520, KL720, KL630, KL730, KL830 and KL1140 lines — together with the software
  needed to run models on that silicon: the Kneron PLUS (KP) inference SDK for C, C++ and Python,
  per-device firmware SDKs, and a model toolchain of ONNX converter, compiler, quantizer,
  evaluator and simulator distributed as the kneron/toolchain container. Products built on the
  stack include the KNEO Pi single-board computer and its developer community, the KNEO
  marketplace of edge AI applications, the KNEO 300/330 private edge GPT servers and the KneoEdge
  line of on-premise LLM and VLM appliances aimed at healthcare, finance and government buyers who
  need air-gapped inference. Kneron has raised roughly $190M from Horizons Ventures, Alibaba
  Entrepreneurs Fund, Qualcomm, Sequoia Capital, CDIB, Foxconn and Himax. Kneron publishes no
  public HTTP API: contract discovery across www.kneron.com, doc.kneron.com, kneo.kneron.com and
  kneoedge.kneron.com found no OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL, AsyncAPI, MCP or A2A surface, and no
  /.well-known/ documents. Its programmable surface is the on-device KP API plus toolchain CLIs,
  and its one machine-readable agent-facing artifact is a published llms.txt at
  kneoedge.kneron.com describing the on-premise LLM appliance line.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kneron/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
image: https://www.kneron.com/image/cover.jpg
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Edge AI
- Semiconductors
- Neural Processing Unit
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
- AIoT
- Hardware
- Large Language Models
- On-Premise AI
- SDK
- Embedded Systems
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kneron-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kneron.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.kneron.com/developer_center/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://doc.kneron.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
  name: Kneron PLUS Python API document
  url: https://doc.kneron.com/docs/plus_python/api_document/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://doc.kneron.com/docs/plus_c/getting_started/
- type: Downloads
  url: https://www.kneron.com/support/developers/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.kneron.com/support/
- type: Community
  name: Kneron Developer Forums
  url: https://www.kneron.com/forum/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://www.kneron.com/support/developers/faq/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.kneron.com/news/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kneron
- type: DockerHub
  url: https://hub.docker.com/u/kneron
- type: SignUp
  name: KNEO marketplace registration
  url: https://kneo.kneron.com/register
- type: Login
  url: https://www.kneron.com/login/
- type: TermsOfService
  name: KNEO terms of service
  url: https://kneo.kneron.com/conditions-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  name: KNEO privacy notice
  url: https://kneo.kneron.com/privacy-notice
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.kneron.com/contact/
- type: About
  url: https://www.kneron.com/about/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.kneron.com/careers/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18611732/
- type: Marketplace
  name: KNEO AI app marketplace
  url: https://kneo.kneron.com/
- type: Product
  name: KneoEdge on-premise LLM appliances
  url: https://kneoedge.kneron.com/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kneron-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/kneron-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/kneron-packages.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kneron-lifecycle.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/kneron-cli.yml
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/kneron_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 6
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