Gerard Williams creates Nuvia v2. NUVACORE has got Sequoia Capital funding
Posted by DerpSenpai@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 5 comments
"Congrats to NUVACORE coming out of stealth and the Sequoia Capital
investment. The value prop makes sense. Agents are driving the need for more and better datacenter CPUs, particularly in the hyperscalers. The company says it wants to overcome the limitations of traditional datacenter CPU architecture by fully optimizing for AI, distributed systems, and always-on infrastructure. And, of course, while doing the basics for max performance in the smallest die area.
Gerard Williams III, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan are not unknowns. John and Ram were co-founders, and Ram was a key player at NUVIA Inc, which Qualcomm acquired in 2021 for $1.4 billion. The acquisition was pre-tape-out, which rarely, if ever, happens. Sequoia investment backing adds more credibility. Oryon's core is incredible in real life, not just on paper.
The opportunity is not a classic server share grab.
Some unknowns:
-instruction set
-funding amount
-business model (IP, chip, semi-custom)
-architecture
-timeframes (of course, they just started)
Right problem, right time, credible team." - Patrick Moorhead on Linkedin
zakats@reddit
I'm completely without context here so this just reads as typical investment pie-in-the-sky to me. Is there evidence beyond clout to consider here?
DerpSenpai@reddit (OP)
Gerard is recreating Nuvia and he has made the Oryon CPUs for Qualcomm. He is doing it again
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Kryohi@reddit
Would be interesting to read what are the "limitations of traditional datacenter CPUs" in their opinion
Homerlncognito@reddit
They're likely planning to create ASICs.