The company's first chip is a custom Armv8-A 64-bit, operating at up to 3.3 GHz with 1TB of memory at 125 W. Although James is not yet ready to share pricing, she promises that the chip will deliver unparalleled Cost-effective, will exceed any high-performance computing chip.
James, who spent 28 years at Intel, spent a fortune and a bit of courage in attracting a seasoned industrial giant to build the product, backed by Carlyle Group, which briefly worked when James left Intel A private-equity firm that does not reveal the amount of money Carlyle has given her, but does say her company has enough capital.
Renee James said a significant amount of work shifted to the cloud, requiring a new generation of chips to deliver higher efficiencies than ever before, and in particular, she wanted to build high-performance, high-efficiency chips at low cost. Launched in early 2017 with 300-400 employees, Santa Clara chips from Renee James are being tested with customers and partners and will go live later this year, but she declined Disclose any customer's name, but partners include Microsoft, Lenovo and Oracle.