Samsung and VeriSilicon Enable Blaize to Meet Aggressive Time-to-Market Goals for New AI Edge Processor

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Collaborative effort completed on schedule despite emergence of COVID-19 pandemic immediately before tape-out of Blaize Graph Streaming Processor device

www.businesswire.com, Oct. 28, 2020 – 

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, in collaboration with design services provider, VeriSilicon, has successfully supported the on-time market launch of AI Edge computing startup Blaize's hardware platform, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leveraging Samsung Foundry's 14nm FinFET process technology and VeriSilicon's chip design expertise and IP, Blaize is now offering its AI Edge computing Pathfinder and Xplorer platforms equipped with the Blaize Graph Streaming Processor (GSP), bringing a new class of powerful AI compute capabilities to edge applications such as industrial, smart city, automotive sensor fusion, last mile delivery and retail.

Blaize, based in El Dorado Hills, Calif., is addressing a fundamental issue in Edge AI application deployment: existing solutions are either unable to handle the required computational load, or too costly and difficult to implement in products. At the heart of Blaize's solution is a 100% programmable hardware platform that offers an unprecedented combination of low-latency AI processing, low energy demand, multi-sensor AI analytics, and an accompanying suite of software tools that greatly simplify and accelerate the AI development process.

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