Groq, which is backed by investment arms of Samsung and Cisco, said the data center will be in Helsinki, Finland.

Groq, valued at $2.8 billion and backed by investors such as Samsung and Cisco, is positioning itself as a challenger to ...

Groq CEO Jonathan Ross on differentiating his business in the AI chip race, as the company opens first European data center ...

Good morning, tech fam; here are some quick tech updates for you to catch up on! What’s New Today: NVIDIA rival Groq opens its first Data Center in Europe as pa ...

Groq opens a new AI data centre in Helsinki, Finland, as it expands globally to compete with Nvidia in the inference chip ...

AI chipmaker Groq is opening its first European data centre in Helsinki, Finland in collaboration with Equinix, a digital ...

Now worth $2.8 billion, Groq thinks it can challenge one of the world’s most valuable companies with a purpose-built chip designed for AI from scratch.

Unlike AI GPU’s from Nvidia and AMD, Groq uses on-chip SRAM, with 14GB of high bandwidth shared memory for weights across the rack. SRAM is some 100x faster than the HBM memory used by GPUs.

Groq, however, is an Nvidia competitor that focused early on the segment of AI computing that requires less need for directly programming chips, and investors are intrigued.The 8-year-old AI chip ...

Beyond Nvidia, Groq competes with Amazon, Google and Microsoft, all of which offer — or will soon offer — custom chips for AI workloads in the cloud. Amazon has its Trainium, ...

Groq is not the only AI chip startup looking to challenge Nvidia: Cerebras, for example, recently filed confidentially for an IPO, while SambaNova, Etched, and Fractile are also in the mix.

AI chip startup Groq has hired veteran tech lawyer Claire Hart as chief legal officer. Hart announced her hire in a LinkedIn post, saying she had started the job in late July. “I’m excited to ...