en.Wedoany.com Reported - South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI is bringing its RNGD (pronounced "renegade") AI accelerator to the European market, positioning it as a low-power, low-cost alternative to Nvidia chips. The company announced the deployment of its first RNGD servers at Equinix's LS2 data center in Lisbon, Portugal, designed to provide efficient computing power for inference tasks.

FuriosaAI already has a compiler-focused R&D lab and a new flagship office in Lisbon. This deployment was announced in conjunction with the RAISE Summit in Paris. As European companies seek locally accessible AI computing resources, low-power hardware compatible with existing racks is gaining attention amid rising energy costs.

The RNGD accelerator is built on a 5-nanometer tensor contraction processor design, delivering 512 teraFLOPS of FP8 performance per accelerator with a thermal design power of 180 watts. The NXT RNGD server, composed of eight accelerators, is a 3-kilowatt system that can be directly installed into standard racks as an air-cooled inference engine, requiring no liquid cooling or modifications. According to The Register, Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 graphics card offers double the memory and computing performance but consumes more than three times the power of the RNGD. FuriosaAI co-founder and CEO June Paik stated: "We provide enterprises with the ability to run inference sustainably and reliably."

This move involves both market share and sales. Europe is accelerating the construction of AI infrastructure to reduce reliance on American chips, while the local chip industry faces concerns about its prospects. FuriosaAI is collaborating with Broadcom to develop a third-generation accelerator, which uses HBM4 memory and targets cutting-edge models with trillions or more parameters. The RNGD has entered mass production, manufactured using TSMC processes and SK Hynix memory. The company stated that it has raised over $250 million to date.