• New Funding and Chip Whisk SambaNova to its Next Stage

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    Hoary startup SambaNova has closed a $350 million Series E funding round, introduced the SN50 AI accelerator, and signed up SoftBank to deploy the new NPU. Following reports that Intel was considering acquiring the company, which Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan chairs, the beleaguered giant merely joined the funding round and signed a collaboration agreement. SambaNova continue reading

  • HyperAccel Promises Power Efficiency Gains

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    HyperAccel seeks to displace Nvidia by delivering a lower-cost AI accelerator. Its Bertha 500 promises to double performance while raising power efficiency 12× compared with a Hopper-generation Nvidia GPU. Based on the company’s latency-processing unit (LPU) architecture, the startup’s NPU achieves these gains through its 90% compute-unit utilization during inference. Bertha’s efficiency is a key continue reading

  • Third-Gen Ceva PentaG Targets Satcom and the IoT

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    Ceva has begun licensing its third-generation PentaG intellectual property. Available in two configurations, the updated PentaG enables customers without cellular expertise to add 5G connectivity to their designs. The PentaG-NTN works with non-terrestrial networks, and the PentaG-Edge targets customers adding cellular data connectivity to their designs. It’s easy to think that 5G cellular technologies are continue reading

  • Adopting Grace, Meta is Nvidia’s First Major Server-Processor Customer

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    Meta will deploy Grace-based servers in Nvidia’s first CPU-only deployment, setting a course for a Vera-only deployment and extending Arm’s data-center success. continue reading

  • Renesas Adds Dual-Band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy to MCUs

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    Renesas’s first dual-band Wi-Fi 6 MCUs feature an Arm Cortex-M33, ultra-low power modes, and pre-integrated modules for battery-powered IoT devices. continue reading

  • Will Tsavorite’s Composable AI Chiplets Be a GEMM Gem?

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    Tsavorite debuts its OPU (NPU) with $100M in orders, featuring Cuda support, Arm cores, and modular chiplet scalability. continue reading

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