How SambaNova Systems is tackling dataflow-as-a-service

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. SambaNova Systems, winner of VentureBeat's 2021 Innovation in Edge award, is a significant contender in the global edge computing market. The startup raised $676 million in April 2021 and is moving from its origins as an AI-specific chip company to one that provides comprehensive dataflow-as-a-service to its clients. Research firm MarketsandMarkets forecasts an impressive 34% compounded annual growth rate for the market and anticipates its value reaching $15.7 billion by 2025. Traditional central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) are based on transactional processing, which needs accuracies to the nth degree for computations.