SambaNova Systems presented technical details of its fifth-generation SN50 reconfigurable dataflow unit (RDU) at Hot Chips 2026, claiming it delivers 5x the FLOPS of the SN40 and scales to 256+ chips.…
General Compute secured a credit facility of up to $400 million from Upper90 Capital Management, backed by SambaNova's SN50 inference ASICs instead of Nvidia GPUs, marking the first major departure fr…
SambaNova combined four Nvidia H200 GPUs with 16 SN50 RDU chips to achieve 763 tokens per second on MiniMax M2.7 at a 10,000-token context, separating prefill and decode stages to accelerate inference…
AI chip maker SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E. The company also secured JPMorganChase as an …