About LeapFive
LeapFive designs RISC-V processors, an open instruction set that chip designers can use without paying a licence fee to a single owner. Its products include the NB2 system on chip, which combines CPU cores, a graphics unit and a neural processing unit for AI workloads, along with development boards and the F1 core aimed at server and AI use. NB2 was announced in 2022 and rated at 4 TOPS (trillions of operations per second) for AI. The company is based in China and describes itself as about five years old.
LeapFive was founded in 2020 and is based in Shenzhen, China. It is listed under AI Accelerators, Edge Computing.
Compute Technologies
- AI Accelerators
- Edge Computing
What LeapFive works on
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.
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.
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