World-Record AI Chip Announced By Habana Labs

Out of the tsunami of AI chip startups that hit the scene in the last few years, Israeli startup Habana Labs stands out from the crowd. The company surprised and impressed many with the announcement last fall of a chip designed to process a trained neural network (a task called "inference") with record performance at low power. At the time, Eitan Medina, the company's Chief Business Officer, promised a second chip called Gaudi that could challenge NVIDIA in the market for training those neural networks. On Monday, the company made good on that promise, announcing a very fast chip that also includes an on-die standards-based fabric to build large networks of accelerators and systems. Availability is set for the second half of 2019. What did Habana Labs announce?