SambaNova introduced their SN50 AI chip, which boasts a max speed that’s 5X faster than competitive chips. The company also announced a planned collaboration with Intel to deliver high‑performance, cost‑efficient AI inference solutions, and more than $350M in investment from new and existing investors.
Positioned as the most efficient chip for agentic AI, the SN50 chip offers enterprises a 3X lower total cost of ownership – a powerful foundation to scale fast inference and bring autonomous AI agents into full production. The SN50 will be shipping to customers later this year.
To quickly scale and distribute SN50, SambaNova is collaborating with Intel, and has obtained $350 million in strategic Series E financing to expand manufacturing and cloud capacity.
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The SN50 delivers five times more compute per accelerator and four times more network bandwidth than the previous generation. It links up to 256 accelerators over a multi‑terabyte‑per‑second interconnect, cutting time‑to‑first‑token and supporting larger batch sizes. The result: Enterprises can deploy bigger, longer‑context AI models with higher throughput and responsiveness — while keeping performance high and costs and latency under control.
The news follows SambaNova’s record bookings and revenue as they closed out 2025, reflecting accelerating demand for production-ready AI systems across financial services, telecommunications, energy, and sovereign deployments worldwide.
SambaNova and Intel have entered into a planned multi‑year strategic collaboration to deliver high‑performance, cost‑efficient AI inference solutions for AI‑native companies, model providers, enterprises, and government organizations around the world. The collaboration will give customers a powerful alternative to GPU‑centric solutions, offering optimized performance for leading open‑source models with predictable throughput and total cost of ownership.
As part of the collaboration, Intel plans to make a strategic investment in SambaNova to accelerate the rollout of an Intel‑powered AI cloud. The collaboration is expected to span three key areas:
- AI Cloud Expansion – Scaling SambaNova’s vertically integrated AI cloud, built on Intel Xeon‑based infrastructure and optimized for large language and multimodal models. The platform will deliver low‑latency, high‑throughput AI services, supported by reference architectures, deployment blueprints, and partnerships with system integrators and software vendors.
- Integrated AI Infrastructure – Combining SambaNova’s systems with Intel’s CPUs, accelerators, and networking technologies to power scalable, production‑ready inference for reasoning, code generation, multimodal applications, and agentic workflows.
- Go‑to‑Market Execution – Joint co‑selling and co‑marketing through Intel’s global enterprise, cloud, and partner channels to accelerate adoption across the AI ecosystem.
Together, SambaNova and Intel aim to shape the next generation of heterogeneous AI data centers — integrating Intel Xeon processors, Intel GPUs, Intel networking and storage, and SambaNova systems — to unlock a multi‑billion‑dollar inference market opportunity.
SOURCE: SambaNova