Former Apple chipmakers form Nuvia to rival Intel and AMD server CPUs

guest · Nov 15, 2019

Former Apple chipmakers form Nuvia to rival Intel and AMD server CPUs
November 15, 2019
https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/15/...orm-nuvia-to-rival-intel-and-amd-server-cpus/

Three of Apple’s former top semiconductor executives in charge of iPhone chips have founded a startup to design processors for datacenters, aiming to take on current industry leaders Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

Nuvia was founded by Gerard Williams III, Manu Gulati, and John Bruno in early 2019 and is developing a processor code-named Phoenix. The company on Friday said it raised $53 million from Dell Technologies Capital and several Silicon Valley firms, which will help it expand from 60 employees to about 100 by the end of this year.

The founders aim to make a chip that is faster, more power-efficient, and more secure than existing datacenter processors, Williams told Reuters.

“We want to bring all these aspects that we have developed over time through our careers to this new market and really exploit them in this market, because it’s an area ripe for innovation and advancement,” Williams told Reuters in an interview.
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guest · Sep 24, 2020

Nuvia raises $240 million to make Arm-based server CPUs
Ex-Apple employees are readying chips that could take the market by storm
September 24, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/86874-nuvia-raises-240-million-make-arm-based-server.html

Forward-looking: While the spotlight is on Nvidia's acquisition of Arm, a new startup is developing new energy-efficient chips for the server market that have a greatly reduced total cost of ownership and better per-core performance than any of the current low-power x86 and Arm designs.

They hope to deliver server chips with much better performance per-watt when compared to Intel, AMD, and Apple solutions. To that end, they've created the Orion SoC based on a core design codenamed Phoenix.
It's based on the Arm architecture, and Nuvia's John Bruno explains that it has a "complete overhaul of the CPU pipeline" with no need for "marketing-inflated boost clocks that aren't achievable in any real-world applications of server SoCs."
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Nuvia used Geekbench 5 in its testing, and found that the Phoenix CPU core can deliver up to two times the performance of the most efficient mobile chips out there within a power envelope of 1 to 4.5 watts per core. Compared to AMD's Ryzen 4700U, the company says it can achieve a 40 to 50 percent higher IPC with only 33 percent of the power consumption.

Recently, they've managed to raise $240 million in new funding, after a more modest $53 million raised in November 2019
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