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NVIDIA MGX is a modular reference architecture that NVIDIA publishes so that server makers and contract manufacturers can build accelerated systems around NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, DPUs and networking without…
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NVIDIA Quantum-X Photonics
NVIDIA Quantum-X Photonics is a family of co-packaged-optics network switches that NVIDIA announced at its GTC conference on March 18, 2025.
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is a professional workstation and server graphics processing unit (GPU) built on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, pairing the large GB202 die with 96 GB of GDDR7 memory and…
NVIDIA Rubin CPX
NVIDIA Rubin CPX is a class of GPU announced by NVIDIA on September 9, 2025, purpose-built to accelerate the compute-heavy "context" phase of large-model inference.
NVIDIA Rubin Ultra
NVIDIA Rubin Ultra is a planned data-center GPU platform from Nvidia, positioned on the company's roadmap as the mid-cycle "Ultra" refresh of the Rubin generation.
NVIDIA Spectrum-6
NVIDIA Spectrum-6 is an Ethernet switch ASIC and system architecture for large AI infrastructure.
NVIDIA Spectrum-X
NVIDIA Spectrum-X is an Ethernet networking platform built by NVIDIA specifically for large-scale AI data center workloads
NVIDIA Spectrum-X Photonics
NVIDIA Spectrum-X Photonics is a co-packaged optics (CPO) Ethernet switch platform from Nvidia, announced at the company's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on March 18, 2025.
NVIDIA Spectrum-XGS
NVIDIA Spectrum-XGS, marketed in full as NVIDIA Spectrum-XGS Ethernet, is a networking technology from NVIDIA designed to link several geographically separated data centers into a single
NVIDIA Vera (CPU)
NVIDIA Vera is a custom Arm-based data center central processing unit from NVIDIA, marketed by the company as "the CPU for agents," a processor designed first for agentic AI workloads rather than the…
NVIDIA Vera Rubin
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is NVIDIA's data center AI computing platform that succeeds the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, pairing the custom Arm-based Vera CPU with the dual-die Rubin GPU into a single superchip built…
NVLink
NVLink is NVIDIA's proprietary high-bandwidth, low-latency, cache-coherent point-to-point interconnect for directly connecting GPUs to other GPUs and, in some configurations, to host CPUs.
NVLink Fusion
NVLink Fusion is a program and silicon technology from NVIDIA that opens its NVLink high speed interconnect to third party chips.
NVSwitch
NVSwitch is a family of switch chips (ASICs) designed by Nvidia that fully connect multiple GPUs over NVLink into a single shared-memory fabric, letting every GPU talk to every other GPU at full link speed.
Neural Processing Unit
A neural processing unit (NPU) is a processor, or a block inside a larger chip, designed specifically to run neural network inference at high throughput and low power.
Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation is an American technology company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs) and is the world's dominant supplier of hardware for artificial intelligence
Open Compute Project
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a community that develops and shares designs, specifications, and related engineering work for computing infrastructure.
OpenAI-Broadcom AI accelerators
The OpenAI-Broadcom collaboration is a strategic partnership, announced on October 13, 2025, under which OpenAI designs its own custom AI inference accelerators and Broadcom co-develops, manufactures, and…
Positron AI
Positron AI is an American semiconductor startup headquartered in Reno, Nevada, that designs and manufactures purpose-built hardware for transformer inference.
Project Rainier
Project Rainier is a distributed artificial intelligence supercomputer built by Amazon Web Services around its in-house AWS Trainium accelerators, created principally to train and serve the Claude models of…
Project Suncatcher
Project Suncatcher is a long-term research "moonshot" at Google that studies whether machine learning compute could one day be hosted in space, on constellations of solar-powered satellites carrying Google…
Qualcomm AI200
Qualcomm AI200 is a rack-scale data-center accelerator for artificial intelligence inference, announced by Qualcomm on 27 October 2025 and slated for commercial availability in 2026.
Qualcomm AI250
Qualcomm AI250 is a planned data-center artificial intelligence inference accelerator and rack-scale system announced by Qualcomm in late October 2025.
Rain AI
Rain AI, originally incorporated as Rain Neuromorphics, is a San Francisco AI accelerator startup founded by Gordon Hirsch Wilson, Jack Kendall, and Juan Claudio Nino, with technical roots in the University of…
Rebellions
Rebellions is a South Korean fabless semiconductor company that designs inference-focused AI chips, accelerator systems, and supporting software.
Rebellions REBEL-Quad
REBEL-Quad is a chiplet-based AI inference accelerator developed by Rebellions, a South Korean AI-chip company.
SK Hynix
SK Hynix Inc. (KRX:000660) is a South Korean memory semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, and the world's largest producer of high bandwidth memory (HBM) used in AI accelerators.
SambaNova SN40L
The SambaNova SN40L is a reconfigurable dataflow AI accelerator designed by SambaNova Systems and unveiled on September 19, 2023.
SambaNova SN50
The SambaNova SN50 is a reconfigurable dataflow accelerator that SambaNova Systems unveiled in late February 2026 as the successor to its SN40L chip.
SambaNova Systems
SambaNova Systems is an American artificial intelligence hardware and software company headquartered in San Jose, California.
Section 232 AI chip tariffs and 2026 export rules
Between 2025 and 2026 the United States built two separate legal machines around advanced AI chips, and public discussion routinely conflates them.
SemiAnalysis
SemiAnalysis is an independent research and analysis firm covering the semiconductor and artificial intelligence industries.
Space-based data centers
Space-based data centers are data centers launched into Earth orbit (or, in some proposals, placed on the Moon), where satellites carrying AI accelerators draw power from solar arrays and reject heat by…
SpaceX Starmind
SpaceX Starmind is SpaceX's planned constellation of solar-powered artificial intelligence compute satellites, intended to function as orbital data centers that run AI workloads in space and beam results back…
Starcloud
Starcloud, Inc. is an American space infrastructure startup that builds space-based data centers: satellites carrying data-center-class GPUs that are powered by solar arrays and cooled by radiating waste heat…
Systolic array
A systolic array is a parallel computer architecture in which a regular grid of identical, tightly coupled processing elements (PEs) rhythmically pumps data through the array under a global clock, with each PE…
TPU Ironwood
TPU Ironwood (officially TPU v7 or TPU7x) is Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit and the first TPU designed specifically for inference, unveiled at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas on April…
TPU Pod
A TPU Pod is a single Google supercomputer built from many Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips wired directly to each other by a high-speed Inter-Chip Interconnect (ICI) fabric arranged as a 2D or 3D torus, so…
TPU v4
TPU v4 is Google's fourth-generation Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that accelerates machine learning workloads in Google's data centers and on Google Cloud.
TPU v5e
Cloud TPU v5e (sometimes rendered TPU v5e or, internally at Google, TPUv5e) is the fifth-generation, efficiency-optimized member of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) family.
TPU v5p
TPU v5p (Cloud TPU v5p) is Google's fifth-generation, performance-tier Tensor Processing Unit, a custom AI accelerator that delivers 459 bfloat16 TFLOPS per chip and scales to pods of 8,960 chips (about 4.45…
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry and the company that physically manufactures the overwhelming majority of advanced AI chips, including…
Taalas
Taalas is a Toronto, Canada based AI chip startup that builds "hardwired" or model-specific silicon
Tensor Core
A Tensor Core is a specialized execution unit inside NVIDIA GPUs that computes a small matrix multiplication and accumulation, D = A x B + C
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
A Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a family of custom application-specific integrated circuits developed by Google to accelerate machine-learning computation.
Tenstorrent
Tenstorrent is a North American artificial intelligence hardware and intellectual property company that designs processors for AI training and inference on the basis of the open-standard RISC-V instruction set…
Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole
Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole is an AI inference server built by Tenstorrent, the fabless semiconductor company led by chief executive Jim Keller.
Trillium (TPU v6e)
Trillium, also designated TPU v6e, is the sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit developed by Google for machine learning training and inference workloads on Cloud TPU infrastructure.
UALink
UALink (Ultra Accelerator Link) is an open industry standard for scale-up interconnect between AI accelerators that lets up to 1,024 accelerators inside a single pod read and write each other's memory directly…
Ultra Ethernet
Ultra Ethernet is an open networking specification that reworks Ethernet into a high performance fabric for large AI training clusters and high performance computing, giving operators an interoperable
Untether AI
Untether AI Corp. was a Toronto-based fabless semiconductor startup that designed energy-efficient inference accelerators based on a proprietary "at-memory compute" architecture, in which large arrays of small…
Volta (microarchitecture)
Volta is a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia and introduced in 2017. It is best known as the architecture of the Tesla V100, the data center accelerator that brought the first generation of Tensor…
Wormhole (Tenstorrent)
Wormhole is the second-generation AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed by Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based hardware startup led by chip architect Jim Keller.
bfloat16
bfloat16 (short for Brain Floating Point Format, sometimes written BF16) is a 16-bit floating-point number format that uses one sign bit, eight exponent bits, and seven mantissa bits
d-Matrix
d-Matrix is a privately held American semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that builds accelerators, I/O cards and software for AI inference in data centers.
d-Matrix Corsair
Corsair is the first commercial AI accelerator product from d-Matrix, a Silicon Valley AI inference hardware startup based in Santa Clara, California.
d-Matrix Raptor
Raptor is the second-generation AI inference accelerator from d-Matrix, a Santa Clara semiconductor startup, and the first commercial chip built on the company's 3D stacked digital in-memory compute technology