AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance

AI 基础设施公司 Cornelis 融资 2.05 亿美元，旨在挑战英伟达的市场主导地位

Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners. Cornelis 是一家致力于开发网络技术以帮助 AI 芯片更高效通信的公司。该公司周一宣布，已完成由 IAG Capital Partners 领投的 2.05 亿美元融资。

It also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive. Cornelis hopes to address this with a networking fabric that lets chips process and send information at the same time. 该公司还发布了一款名为“Active Compute Fabric”的产品。这项网络技术旨在解决目前 GPU 大量时间浪费在等待数据传输上的问题。Cornelis 希望通过这种网络架构，让芯片能够同时进行数据处理与传输。

The company, which spun off from Intel in 2020, is competing with Nvidia by offering an open architecture, meaning customers can use a variety of GPU and accelerator hardware with Cornelis’ networking fabric. 该公司于 2020 年从英特尔拆分出来。它通过提供开放架构与英伟达展开竞争，这意味着客户可以将各种 GPU 和加速器硬件与 Cornelis 的网络架构配合使用。

Though Nvidia chips can technically run on other networking fabrics, they’re optimized to run on Nvidia’s own software, making it much easier — and more enticing — for customers to use Nvidia’s full GPU stack. 虽然英伟达的芯片在技术上可以运行在其他网络架构上，但它们针对英伟达自家的软件进行了优化，这使得客户使用英伟达的全套 GPU 堆栈变得更加容易，也更具吸引力。

Cornelis is part of a new wave of AI infrastructure companies emerging to break apart Nvidia’s market dominance, piece by piece (or chip by chip, one could say). Cornelis has already started shipping its product and is working on a new generation of it, expected to be released later this year. Cornelis 是新一波 AI 基础设施公司中的一员，这些公司正试图一点一点（或者说一个芯片一个芯片地）打破英伟达的市场主导地位。Cornelis 已经开始交付其产品，并正在研发新一代产品，预计将于今年晚些时候发布。