Kalray Announces the Availability of Its TURBOCARD4 Card: a Paradigm Shift in Compute Acceleration for Smart Vision and Gen-AI Data-indexing Applications
02 Abril 2024 - 1:57PM
Business Wire
Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris: ALKAL), a leading provider of
hardware and software solutions to accelerate data intensive
workflows from Cloud to Edge announces the commercial availability
of its latest product, the TURBOCARD4 (TC4) acceleration card.
Powered by four of Kalray’s latest generation of DPU processors,
the TC4 targets the fast growing markets of AI-powered smart vision
and data-indexing applications. The TC4 is manufactured in France,
in the French plant of Asteelflash, one of the leading global
manufacturers worldwide. Kalray already received an initial order
of more than $1 million (hundreds of cards)1 to be recognized this
year.
TC4 TARGETS THE FAST GROWING COMPUTE ACCELERATION CARD
MARKET
Whereas enterprises and data centers have to process an
ever-growing amount of data, compute acceleration cards are getting
more and more traction to bring the best performance and best power
efficiency in data processing.
“The availability of our new TC4 acceleration card is a major
step for Kalray to set the stage for the widespread adoption of our
latest acceleration technology. The TC4 has already been selected
by one of our major customers and we envision a fast commercial
take-off due to the ever-increasing demand in data processing
acceleration solutions”, shares Eric Baissus, Kalray CEO.
“In addition, we are very proud to announce that the TC4 is our
first “made in France” product. The production is ramping up
rapidly in the plant of the leading global manufacturer AsteelFlash
in Langon”.
BUILT TO COMBINE AI AND CLASSICAL COMPUTING
TC4 embodies Kalray's vision in addressing the intricate demands
of modern computing workloads. Housing four of the latest
generation of Kalray’s DPUs, Coolidge2TM, in a single PCIe card,
Kalray’s TC4 is designed to ensure customers can merge classical
and AI-based processing technologies and create superior,
efficiency-driven systems for the most processing-intensive AI
applications. DPUs offer a very complementary architecture to GPUs,
allowing for the processing of a large number of different
operations in parallel in an asynchronous way. DPUs are well-suited
for pre-processing data that is later used by GPUs or in the
context of complex intelligent systems running many different
algorithms in parallel.
TWO FAST GROWING MARKETS TARGETTED: THE SMART VISION
MARKET…
TC4 is strategically targeted at two rapidly growing markets.
The first one is the Smart Vision market. Smart vision applications
play a pivotal role in transformative sectors such as Industrial,
Health Science, or Smart City operations due to their ability to
analyze visual data in real-time, make intelligent decisions, and
automate complex processes. The smart vision market size was valued
at USD 20.31 billion in 2023 which is forecasted to reach USD
175.72 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 27.3% (Fortune
Business Insights). These projections highlight the increasing
demand of smart vision technologies across various industries,
driven by advancements in AI and machine learning, and their
application in automation, quality control, and enhanced
operational efficiencies.
…AND THE DATA-INDEXING FOR GEN-AI MARKET
In the context of Generative AI, data indexing is crucial for
several reasons. Generative AI models, such as those used in
natural language processing or image generation, often need to
access enormous datasets. Efficient indexing minimizes the time
required to fetch the relevant data, making the training and
inference processes faster.
In addition, as Generative AI models become more complex, the
datasets they train on grow exponentially. Data indexing allows
these models to scale more effectively by ensuring that the
increase in data volume does not linearly increase access
times.
Data-Indexing also improves models’ outputs accuracy as indexing
helps quickly identify the most relevant data pieces to insert in
model context and prompt. This ensures that the model's outputs are
as accurate and contextually appropriate as possible.
TC4 PRODUCTION HAS BEEN RE-LOCATED TO ASTEELFLASH FRENCH
PLANT
Kalray's commitment to quality and desire to re-locate its
production to Europe led to the alliance with Asteelflash for TC4
production. Asteelflash is one of the leading global electronic
manufacturing services (EMS) companies, specializing in complex and
high-tech manufacturing solutions across various industries.
Asteelflash has several plants in Europe, including Germany and
France. The TC4 production is performed in the Langon, France
plant. This partnership has been supported by the French government
as part of the CARAIBE funded project. The production volume is
expected to grow from a few hundred per month today to several
thousands of units per month, starting in 2025.
ABOUT KALRAY Kalray is a leading provider of hardware and
software technologies and solutions for high-performance,
data-centric computing markets, from cloud to edge.
Kalray provides a full range of products to enable smarter, more
efficient, and energy-wise data-intensive applications and
infrastructures. Its offers include its unique patented DPU (Data
Processing Unit) processors and acceleration cards as well as its
leading-edge software-defined storage and data management offers.
Separated or in combination, Kalray’s high-performance solutions
allow its customers to improve the efficiency of data centers or
design the best solutions in fast-growing sectors such as AI, Media
& Entertainment, Life Sciences, Scientific Research, Edge
Computing, Automotive and others.
Founded in 2008 as a spin-off of the well-known French CEA
research lab, with corporate and financial investors such as
Alliance Venture (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi), NXP Semiconductors or
Bpifrance, Kalray is dedicated through technology, expertise, and
passion to offer more: more for a smart world, more for the planet,
more for customers and developers. www.kalrayinc.com
1 See press release as of 11th January, 2024
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