Nervana
Type	Private
Founded	2014
Founder	Amir Khosrowshahi Naveen Rao Arjun Bansal
Fate	Acquired by Intel
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Headquarters	San Diego, California
Website	http://www.nervanasys.com/

Intel Nervana (formerly Nervana Systems) was a fabless American semiconductor company that specializes in Artificial Intelligence and development of neural processors. Nervana-based product development have been discontinued in January 2020.

Overview

Founded in 2014, Nervana was one of the earliest startups to specialize in the acceleration of Artificial Intelligence workloads. Nervana first-generaiton product sampled in limited quantities and never made it to mass production On August 9 2016 Nervana was acquired by Intel for $350-$410 million. Nervana was subsequently renamed to as Intel Nervana. Nervana official launched its first mass-produced second-generation product in late 2019 under the NNP family.

On January 31 2020 Intel confirmed that Nervana-based product development has been discontinued in favor of Habana Lab (which was aquired late 2019).

Processors

• NNP

List of microarchitectures

• Lake Crest
• Spring Crest
• Knights Crest

Other

• Flexpoint

See also

• Habana Labs