
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 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 continue reading
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