NextSilicon’s Dataflow Chip Could Disrupt The Processor Landscape

Every so often, a semiconductor startup emerges claiming to have cracked a problem the industry’s biggest players have wrestled with for decades. Most fade quietly, but occasionally, one arrives that turns heads as a potential disruptor of the industry. NextSilicon, an Israel-based compute architecture firm founded by CEO Elad Raz back in 2017, appears to be one of those rare cases.

With its new Maverick-2 accelerator, built on what the company calls an Intelligent Compute Architecture, NextSilicon is betting on a long-pursued but rarely realized approach to accelerating HPC and data center workloads, known as dataflow computing.