The career for the AI among technological ones is so fierce that they no longer want to overcome each other in software, but that the possibility that they want to start designing their ia chips seems to be gone. Or internally, or buying companies that dedicate themselves to it. Meta It seems to be one of them, since according to Forbes I would be negotiating the purchase of a company South Korean dedicated to Chips development prepared to work with artificial intelligence: furiosaai.
The company, founded by former Samsung and AMD workers in 2017, could decide its sale even before it ends this month, although there are other companies interested in getting Furiosaai. It is dedicated to the development of chips capable of accelerating execution and work with AI models. Among them, text generation models such as Meta, call 2 and 3.
Until now, Furiosaai, based in Seoul, has achieved around 115 million dollars of several investors. Among them is another South Korean technological: Naver, a country of origin of another of its main investors: DSC Investment. In addition, those responsible has confirmed that it already has commitments with several potential clients, whose name has not facilitated, in the United States, India and Japan.
With this step, goal would reduce its dependence on the main chips manufacturer for the market, Nvidia. In addition, the product portfolio and the technology of Furiosaai would be a complement and a reinforcement for the company’s efforts to internally develop efficient ia accelerators.
Last August, Furiosaai announced the launch of its RNGD chip, jointly developed with the Taiwanés Global Unichip Corp. chip manufacturer. The highlights of this chip, it seems, is that while the latest generation GPUS They consume up to 1,200 watts, RSGD operates with a thermal design power of only 150 watts. It is designed to perform the inference tasks of AI models, and integrates HBM3 Hynix HBM3 chips, which include high performance memory and are highly appreciated in artificial intelligence computing.
Furiosaai also ensures that his chips RNGD has a performance three times higher than that of the NVIDIA graphic process units. If everything goes according to the plans that the company currently has, it will begin to produce it in mass in the second half of 2025. Among the companies interested in using this chip is the research laboratory in LG.
