Sandia deployed Spectra, a prototype supercomputer developed with NextSilicon and integrated by Penguin Solutions, to evaluate Maverick-2 accelerators for national-security simulations.
NextSilicon details how its Maverick-2 reconfigurable dataflow accelerators hold up in production systems for high-performance computing (HPC). It claims up to a 10× advantage over leading GPUs, positioning the accelerators for the HPC market that Nvidia has left behind.
NextSilicon discloses architecture and performance details for its Maverick-2 processor, which the headline says delivers up to 10× performance at less than half the power. The company also unveils Arbel, an enterprise-grade, high-performance RISC-V core built on TSMC’s 5nm process.
NextSilicon says its reconfigurable accelerator approach complements, rather than directly competes with, Nvidia's latest GPU platform. The company positions its Maverick accelerator for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI inference workloads.
Jan 2025GlobesNews article
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NextSilicon develops reconfigurable compute accelerators and RISC-V processors for scientific and AI computing.
