San Jose's SambaNova and Supermicro team up to sell AI systems built on SambaNova chips
The plan starts with 10,000 of SambaNova's SN50 chips paired with Nvidia graphics chips.
Two San Jose companies, AI chipmaker SambaNova and server maker Supermicro, said Tuesday that Supermicro will build and sell computer systems powered by SambaNova chips. SambaNova said the first plan calls for 10,000 of its SN50 chips.
SambaNova, founded in 2017, designs chips it calls Reconfigurable Dataflow Units, or RDUs; the SN50 is its fifth generation. The systems split the work of answering an AI request. Nvidia graphics chips handle the first step, reading the whole prompt. SN50 chips handle the second, writing the answer one word-piece at a time, a step limited more by memory speed than raw computing power.
Supermicro will assemble, test, deliver and support the systems as part of its data center product line. SambaNova engineers will tune the AI models. Sales start with specialized cloud providers and government-backed clouds, then large businesses. The companies say the chips do not need extreme rack power, so they fit existing data centers alongside graphics chips customers already own.
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Financial terms were not disclosed.
Source: SambaNova press release and blog, Nov. 3, 2026