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SambaNova Systems, a Silicon Valley startup<\/a> that makes semiconductors<\/a> for artificial intelligence related computation work, said on Tuesday it raised $676 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund 2.
The latest injection took SambaNova's total funding to more than $1 billion, valuing the company at more than $5 billion, it said.
The funding round is the third biggest venture capital deal in chips the last two decades, according to data firm PitchBook<\/a>. While Silicon Valley has focused its fire power on software, social media, and internet investments over the past decade, there has been a shift in recent years to back more challenging technology, including semiconductors. PitchBook's data shows global venture capitalists invested $7.4 billion in 2020, a 20-year record.
SambaNova does not sell its chips, manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TMSC), instead using them to build servers and AI software it then leases to companies for a subscription fee.
\"We provide the services to customers so that they don't have to actually hire and build entire teams of machine learning experts in order to actually be able to run these machines,\" said Rodrigo Liang, SambaNova co-founder and CEO.
Liang said SambaNova developed its own chip architecture rather than use one of the major architectures such as ARM or x86, used in smartphones and laptop computers.
The company avoided the impacts of a global chip production shortfall by investing to secure production capacity with TMSC when it heard \"rumblings of a shortage\" early last year, he said.
SambaNova was co-founded by Liang and Stanford University<\/a> professors Kunle Olukotun and Chris Re in 2017. Olukotun is the leader of the Stanford Hydra Chip Multiprocessor research
project and Re is an associate professor in the Stanford AI Lab.
The latest funding round included new investors Temasek and Government of Singapore Investment Corp., along with existing investors including BlackRock<\/a>, Intel Capital<\/a>, GV, formerly known as Google Ventures<\/a>, and Walden International.
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SambaNova系统,一个硅谷创业公司这使得半导体人工智能相关的计算工作,周二表示,该公司筹集了6.76亿美元资金轮由软银集团的愿景基金2。
最新的注入了SambaNova总资金超过10亿美元,公司市值超过50亿美元。
一轮融资是第三大风险资本协议芯片过去二十年里,据数据公司PitchBook。虽然硅谷的火力集中在软件、社交媒体,和互联网投资在过去的十年里,已经有了近年来转移到更具挑战性的技术,包括半导体。PitchBook的数据显示,2020年全球风险投资家投资74亿美元,20年的记录。
SambaNova不出售其芯片,台湾半导体制造有限公司生产的(TMSC),而不是使用它们构建服务器和人工智能软件然后租赁公司订阅费用。
“我们为客户提供的服务,这样他们就不用实际机器学习专家的雇佣和构建整个团队为了能够运行这些机器,”梁罗德里戈说,SambaNova联合创始人兼首席执行官。
梁说SambaNova开发了自己的芯片架构,而不是使用一个主要的架构如手臂或x86,用于智能手机和笔记本电脑。
公司避免全球芯片产量缺口的影响通过投资获得生产能力与TMSC当它听到“短缺的谣言”去年年初,他说。
SambaNova被梁和共同创立斯坦福大学教授Kunle Olukotun在2017年和Chris再保险。Olukotun的领袖斯坦福Hydra芯片多处理器的研究
项目和再保险副教授在斯坦福大学人工智能实验室。
最新一轮融资包括新投资者淡马锡和新加坡政府投资公司,以及现有的投资者包括贝莱德,英特尔投资全球之声,原名谷歌风险投资公司,《瓦尔登湖》国际。
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