About Cornelis Networks
Cornelis Networks builds high-speed interconnects, the network fabric that links servers in supercomputers and AI clusters so they can share data with low delay. Its product line is Omni-Path, which began at Intel, and the company was spun out of Intel in September 2020. The founders are Philip Murphy, Vladimir Tamarkin and Gunnar Gunnarsson, who worked together at SilverStorm Technologies. Cornelis is based in Pennsylvania and sells Omni-Path as an alternative to InfiniBand and Ethernet fabrics.
Cornelis Networks was founded in 2019 and is based in Wayne, PA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, AI Accelerators, Interconnect & Networking. Reported funding is $131M+.
Compute Technologies
- AI Accelerators
- Networking
What Cornelis Networks works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
Interconnect & Networking
Interconnect is the set of links that move data between chips, between boards and between racks. It includes wires on a package, cables inside a server, and the network switches and optical fibre across a data center. A processor is only as useful as the speed at which it can get data in and out.
