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Purpose-built processors, accelerators and architectures optimized for increasingly efficient AI inference.
Inference silicon covers processors and accelerators designed to run trained models efficiently at data-center, edge and device scale. The emphasis is energy per token or per inference, not only peak training throughput.
As models move from training clusters into products and services, inference cost, latency and power become first-order design constraints. Architectures that can serve models efficiently shape which systems can be deployed at scale.
Watch how inference workloads split between data-center accelerators and edge SoCs, and which purpose-built architectures are used in deployed AI systems.
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Custom-silicon organization that publishes machine-learning accelerator architectures, including Trainium training silicon built around NeuronCore.
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Custom-silicon company that publishes cloud AI accelerator architectures, including the Tensor Processing Unit family.
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Custom-silicon company that publishes cloud AI accelerator architectures, including the Azure Maia series.
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Computing technology company that publishes accelerated computing, processor, interconnect and AI platform technologies, including NVLink-C2C chip-to-chip interconnect.
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Company that publishes edge AI system-on-chip platforms for on-device vision, analytics and related embedded intelligence.
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Trainium is AWS’s custom machine-learning training silicon, built around NeuronCore and used in EC2 Trn instances. Official AWS silicon pages describe purpose-built ML chips as part of AWS custom silicon.
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Azure Maia 100 is Microsoft's first in-house cloud AI accelerator: 105 billion transistors on 5 nm, for Azure training and inference.
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Blackwell is NVIDIA’s current data-center GPU architecture, built as a dual-die GPU with a 10 TB/s chip-to-chip interconnect. Official materials describe a two-reticle design manufactured on TSMC 4NP.
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Netrasemi NETRA A2000 is a mid-range edge AI system-on-chip for on-device machine-learning, vision and signal-processing workloads in embedded systems.
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TPU7x (Ironwood) is Google Cloud's seventh-generation TPU, built for large-scale training and inference.
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