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Tensordyne has unveiled its first commercial AI accelerator, Napier, leveraging an unconventional logarithmic math approach to enhance computational efficiency and reduce power consumption. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, the chip transforms multiplication into addition, significantly lowering computat

US AI startup Tensordyne has announced the successful tape-out of its 3nm Napier chip, claiming a 13x performance advantage over NVIDIA's Blackwell in tokens per second and a 17x improvement in tokens per watt. The chip, built on TSMC's 3nm process and featuring 138 billion transistors, delivers 2.1

Tensordyne, a US-based AI company, has announced the successful tape-out of its Napier AI chip, which claims to outperform NVIDIA's Blackwell and Rubin chips in token throughput and energy efficiency. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, the Napier chip leverages novel logarithmic AI math, tightly integrate

AI chip startup Tensordyne has unveiled its data center inference chip, claiming an order-of-magnitude improvement in power efficiency over leading GPU alternatives. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, the chip leverages a proprietary logarithmic number system (LNS) and dedicated hardware acceleration, del