Groq, which is backed by investment arms of Samsung and Cisco, said the data center will be in Helsinki, Finland.

Groq CEO Jonathan Ross on differentiating his business in the AI chip race, as the company opens first European data center ...

Groq, valued at $2.8 billion and backed by investors such as Samsung and Cisco, is positioning itself as a challenger to ...

Groq opens a new AI data centre in Helsinki, Finland, as it expands globally to compete with Nvidia in the inference chip ...

Groq, the US-based AI chipmaker, has launched its first European data center in Helsinki, accelerating its global expansion ...

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Unlike AI GPU’s from Nvidia and AMD, Groq uses on-chip SRAM, with 14GB of high bandwidth shared memory for weights across the rack. SRAM is some 100x faster than the HBM memory used by GPUs.

Now worth $2.8 billion, Groq thinks it can challenge one of the world’s most valuable companies with a purpose-built chip designed for AI from scratch.

Groq, however, is an Nvidia competitor that focused early on the segment of AI computing that requires less need for directly programming chips, and investors are intrigued.The 8-year-old AI chip ...

Beyond Nvidia, Groq competes with Amazon, Google and Microsoft, all of which offer — or will soon offer — custom chips for AI workloads in the cloud. Amazon has its Trainium, ...

Groq makes what it calls language processing units (LPUs). These LPUs are designed to make large language models run faster and more efficiently than Nvidia's GPUs, which target training LLMs.By ...