South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters
AI and ML
RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs
Power-efficient South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has landed on European shores.
On Tuesday, the chip biz revealed that it had begun fielding its RNGD — pronounced “renegade” — line of AI accelerators at colocation giant Equinix’s LS2 datacenter in Lisbon, Portugal.
Founded by June Paik and Hanjoon Kim back in 2017, before LLMs were cool, Furiosa has largely focused its attention on the South Korean domestic market, scoring wins with the likes of LG Electronics.
Now the startup is looking to bring its RNGD-based inference platform to Europe, where it sees an opportunity to capitalize on growing sovereign AI compute demand.
We looked at Furiosa’s tensor contraction processor (TCP) architecture at this time last year. Fabbed on TSMC’s 5 nm process tech, RNGD is rather modest compared to chips from Nvidia or AMD. Each PCIe card features 48...
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