About GreenWaves Technologies
GreenWaves Technologies is a fabless chip designer, meaning it designs processors and leaves manufacturing to outside foundries. Its GAP9 processor combines ten cores based on the open RISC-V instruction set with a neural network engine, built to run small AI models on battery-powered devices such as wireless earbuds and hearing products. The design uses GlobalFoundries 22nm FDX technology, which helps keep power draw low. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Grenoble, France.
GreenWaves Technologies was founded in 2014 and is based in Grenoble, France. It is listed under Edge Computing, AI Accelerators, CPUs & RISC-V.
Compute Technologies
- Edge Computing
- AI Accelerators
What GreenWaves Technologies works on
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
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.
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
