Axelera Launches Europa AI Processing Unit (AIPU) With Up to 629 TOPS

Axelera AI launched its Europa AI Processing Unit architecture, now available in three form factors and reaching up to 629 TOPS at a 45 W TDP. The Edge 232p single-chip card hits 83.4 tokens per second on Qwen 30B, while the Server 250p combines four Europa AIPUs for over 2,500 TOPS and up to 4,205 tokens per second on Qwen3 8B. Axelera says it has a sales pipeline exceeding $1.5 billion and more than 600 customers, and is developing its first chiplet, Titania, for rack-mount servers and supercomputers.

Axelera AI has formally launched Europa, its new AI Processing Unit architecture first announced back in October https://www.techpowerup.com/342085/axelera-announces-europa-ai-processor-unit-with-629-tops last year. The chip is now available in three form factors: as a chip for custom board designs, a half-height, half-length PCIe card Edge 232p , and a full-height full-length PCIe card Server 250p . The Europa AIPU has eight second-generation AI processing cores, 16 RISC-V vector processing cores, 128 MB of L2 SRAM, 200 GB/s DRAM bandwidth, PCIe 4.0 x4 interface and an onboard video decoder. The chip can reach 629 TOPS at a 45 W TDP, with INT4, INT8, and INT16 precision support. The Europa architecture targets inference workloads including agentic systems, vision-language models, generative AI, and computer vision and is the direct successor of Axelera Metis https://www.techpowerup.com/340782/axelera-ai-boosts-llms-at-the-edge-by-2x-with-the-metis-m-2-max . The Edge 232p is a single-chip HHHL card with up to 629 TOPS, reaching 83.4 tokens per second on Qwen 30B. It's available in validated configurations inside a Dell XE5 and a Supermicro 111AD. The Server 250p steps up to four Europa AIPUs for over 2,500 TOPS combined, delivering up to 4,205 tokens per second on Qwen3 8B at up to 32.1 tokens per second per watt. In a press release, Axelera says it has a sales pipeline that exceeds $1.5 billion and more than 600 customers across the globe. The company is now working on its first chiplet, the Titania, targeting rack-mount servers and supercomputers.