Habana Labs unveils its AI processor plans
Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 11:44AM Start-up Habana Labs has developed a chip architecture that promises to speed up the execution of machine-learning tasks.
The Israeli start-up came out of secrecy in September to announce two artificial intelligence (AI) processor chips. One, dubbed Gaudi, is designed to tackle the training of large-scale neural networks. The chip will be available in 2019.
Eitan MedinaGoya, the start-up’s second device, is an inference processor that implements the optimised, trained neural network.
The Goya chip is already in prospective customers’ labs undergoing evaluation, says Eitan Medina, Habana’s chief business officer.
Habana has just raised $75 million in a second round of funding, led by Intel Capital. Overall, the start-up has raised a total of $120 million in funding.
