Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a Founded by six researcher, Speedata wants to build the first-ever purpose-build chip designed specifically for big data workloads.

Speedata Unveils First Analytics Chip with $44M Boost for Big Data Acceleration

Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a Founded by six researcher, Speedata wants to build the first-ever purpose-build chip designed specifically for big data workloads.

Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a Founded by six researchers, Speedata wants to b...

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Israeli chip startup Speedata has secured a $44 million Series B round, bringing its total funding to $114 million as it prepares to unveil a next-generation processor that may challenge Nvidia‘s…

Israeli chip startup Speedata has secured a $44 million Series B round, bringing its total funding to $114 million as it prepares to unveil a next-generation processor that may challenge Nvidia‘s…

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B, aims to showcase its first APU this month  —  Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads …

Speedata recently announced a groundbreaking $44 million funding round to launch its first-ever Analytics Processing Unit, promising to revolutionize big data analytics across industries.

There is no shortage of chip startups hoping to claim a p...

Kurulduğu günden bu yana 114 milyon dolar yatırım alan Speedata, yeni aldığı yatırımı APU çipinin pazara sunmak ve müşteri ağının genişletmek için kullanacağını açıkladı. 

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Speedata C200 is the industry's first analytics accelerator card (according to the company), housing the Callisto analytics processing unit. The card is optimized for high-bandwidth data processing and delivers dramatic acceleration for Apache Spark workloads. With its PCIe connectivity, it is engineered for seamless integration into standard server configurations. The Callisto chip and associated software automatically delegates to the CPU the handling of SQL elements such as user-defined functions that cannot be accelerated, while still handling the rest of the query, for better performance. In contrast to AI workloads that GPUs excel at, data analytics frequently involves complex queries that include conditional statements, joins, aggregations, and other operations that depend on the data values being processed. These tasks require frequent branching and complex control flows, making them less straightforward to parallelize. To optimize performance for data analytic workloads, a new system architecture, Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA), is emerging as a promising solution. A CGRA can be reconfigured for specific computational tasks, optimizing data flow through a configurable pipeline of compute elements. This architecture addresses the shortcomings of GPUs, particularly when it comes to dealing with branch divergence. Speedata has harnessed the power of CGRA to develop Callisto, a new processor specifically designed to achieve maximum efficiency for data analytics. It leverages the advanced features of CGRA to handle complex queries with minimal idle time, offering performance advantage over GPUs in industry benchmarks like TPC-DS.

Speedata Ltd, the developer of a chip optimized for data analytics such as Apache Spark, has raised $44 million in funding. The startup announced the Series B investment today. It included the participation...

Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a Founded by six researcher, Speedata wants to build...

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