Cornelis put processors inside the network to stop GPUs sitting idle
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Cornelis put processors inside the network to stop GPUs sitting idle
A great deal of expensive GPU time is spent waiting for data to turn up. Cornelis Networks, an Intel spinoff, has raised 205 million dollars on the argument that the fix is to stop treating the network as plumbing and start treating it as compute.
Key Takeaways
- Cornelis Networks raised 205 million dollars led by IAG Capital Partners and announced Active Compute Fabric alongside a Qualcomm collaboration.
- The CN7000 adds RISC-V cores and SRAM to every NIC and network switch controller, spreading compute across the fabric itself.
- Target workloads are KV cache acceleration and mixture of experts routing, both of which currently spend GPU cycles on moving data.
- The AI hardware conversation is mostly about chips, while the bottleneck has moved to what sits between them.
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