TEL AVIV, Israel and SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Habana Labs, Ltd. (www.habana.ai), a startup in the emerging AI processor market, today announced that its Goya AI inference processor, successfully passed the PCI-SIG(TM) compliance testing at the Taipei, Taiwan workshop.As a result, the Goya(TM) AI processor card and the HL-1000 chip, have been added to the … Habana released its inference processor, the Goya HL-1000, at the beginning of 2018. Israeli company Habana Labs claims to have developed a processor three times faster than that of its rival Nvidia. “Intel’s existing Nervana NNP-T training ASIC competes directly with Habana Labs’ Gaudi training chip, and Intel’s Nervana NNP-I competes directly with Habana Labs’ Goya … The Habana Labs start-up has published quite compelling AI benchmarks that for popular inference workloads puts its Goya performance ahead of the likes of the NVIDIA Tesla T4, Intel Cascade Lake, Xilinx Alveo, and other competing platforms. Intel announced that it has acquired AI chip startup Habana Labs for approximately $2 billion, strengthening its position in the market. TM) • VLIW SIMD vector core • C-programmable • GEMM operations engine • Tensor addressing • Robust to any address stride According to Habana Labs, Goya is capable of "massive data crunching with low latency and high accuracy."

Habana claims it has already shipped Goya to 20 select clients. It offers Goya, a deep learning inference platform which comprises a complete hardware and software stack, including a graph compiler, kernel libraries, and tools necessary to integrate with the software frameworks that are used to optimize the deployment of artificial intelligence inferencing.

Chip startup Habana Labs announced its second product: an artificial ... chief business officer at Habana. According to Habana’s internal testing, Goya can inference 15,012 images/second on the ResNet50 image recognition benchmark, which would certainly qualify it for the world record. Habana Labs Beats Intel During MLPerf Goya AI Inference Card. But AI startup Habana Labs has been on this bifurcated path from its inception and the company’s two initial offerings do reflect these diverging requirements. Gaudi represents Habana’s second attempt to break into the AI market following the commercial launch of its Goya inference chips in Q4 2018. Israeli startup Habana Labs has come out of stealth and presented what it claims is the world's fastest artificial intelligence (AI) chip at a conference in the US. They claim this AI processor can achieve 15,000 images per second on ResNet-50. Goya Processor Architecture • Heterogenous compute architecture • 3 Engines: TPC, GEMM and DMA • Work concurrently using a shared SRAM • Tensor Processor Core (TPC. Habana Labs . AI Hardware Summit 2019 5. And the results are being spit out with a latency of just 1.3ms, which is more than adequate for real-time interaction. Benchmark tests show both Goya and …

In June, Israeli start-up Habana Labs announced Gaudi, a 16nm training chip for neural networks.

Habana also created (PDF) Goya, an inference engine that includes a programmable Tensor Processing Core, development tools, libraries, and a compiler. Habana Labs is a company which develops artificial intelligence-based processors and chips.