Cambricon MLU590 - China's Inference Accelerator
Full specs and analysis of the Cambricon MLU590 - 192GB HBM2e, ~2,400 GB/s bandwidth, TSMC 7nm, and what it means for AI inference outside the NVIDIA ecosystem.
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Cerebras WSE-3 - The Wafer-Scale AI Engine
The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3 is the largest chip ever built - an entire TSMC 5nm wafer with 900,000 AI cores, 44GB of on-chip SRAM, and 21 PB/s of memory bandwidth powering the CS-3 AI supercomputer.
Groq LPU - Deterministic Inference at Scale
Groq's Language Processing Unit (LPU) is a purpose-built inference ASIC that trades HBM for 230MB of on-chip SRAM, delivering deterministic latency and record-breaking tokens-per-second for LLM serving.
Intel Gaudi 3 - Challenging NVIDIA on Price
Intel Gaudi 3 is a TSMC 5nm AI accelerator with 128GB HBM2e and 1,835 TFLOPS FP8 performance, positioned as a cost-effective alternative to NVIDIA H100 for training and inference workloads.
Groq Review: The Fastest Inference Engine Money Can Buy
Groq's LPU chips deliver inference speeds that make GPUs look slow - 1,200+ tokens per second on Llama 4. We benchmark latency, throughput, model availability, and pricing against the GPU-based competition.
