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Groq

Groq

A fabless semiconductor company designing the Tensor Streaming Processor, a specialized chipset for deep learning applications. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Mountain View, California.

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groq.com
Is a
Company
Company
Organization
Organization

Company attributes

Industry
Technology
Technology
Semiconductor
Semiconductor
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Deep learning
Deep learning
Location
Mountain View, California
Mountain View, California
Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California
Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
B2X
B2B
B2B
CEO
Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross
Founder
Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross
Douglas Wightman
Douglas Wightman
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles...167350-06
Legal Name
Groq, Inc.
Number of Employees (Ranges)
201 – 500
Email Address
contact@groq.com
Phone Number
+16502836823
Number of Employees
212
Full Address
400 Castro St., Suite 600 Mountain View, CA 94041
Place of Incorporation
Delaware
Delaware
Investors
‌
Infinitum Partners
Conconi Growth Partners
Conconi Growth Partners
Social Capital (venture capital)
Social Capital (venture capital)
Tiger Global Management
Tiger Global Management
TDK Ventures
TDK Ventures
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XTX Ventures
‌
Junípero
‌
Spruce House Investment Management
...
DUNS Number
080574078
Founded Date
2016
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Total Funding Amount (USD)
724,300,000
Latest Funding Round Date
April 20, 2021
Competitors
KnuEdge
KnuEdge
Rain AI
Rain AI
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Silicon Mitus
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Cambridge Semiconductor Limited
THine Electronics
THine Electronics
‌
Zenverge
Actronika
Actronika
Wave Computing
Wave Computing
Business Model
Commerce
Glassdoor ID
2473036
Former CEO
Douglas Wightman
Douglas Wightman
Key People
‌
Samidh Chakrabarti
Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross
Adrian Mendes
Adrian Mendes
Latest Funding Type
Series C
Series C
NAICS Code
33,334
Patents Assigned (Count)
2
Hugging Face ID
Groq

Other attributes

Company Operating Status
Active
Postmoney Valuation
1,000,000,000
Latest Funding Round Amount (USD)
300,000,000
Public/Private
Private0
About

Groq is a California-based machine learning systems company that has created hardware that acts as an accelerator.The company has stated that it has taken a compiler-led design approach so that its customers can deploy its systems with ease. Its core product is the Tensor Streaming Processor.

Product

The company's Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) is an application-specific integrated circuit designed for machine learning. It is a single processor with hundreds of functional units, which is a novel architecture within the processor industry. The execution planning is conducted by the compiler in the processor. It has 220 megabites of static random-access memory (SRAM) and 1,000 tera operations per second. It has a single core single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) engine that is run by software and an on-die memory bandwidth of 80 terabytes per second.Groq states that the The TSP is designed to exploit parallelism inherent in machine-learning workloads, including instruction-level, memory concurrency, data and model parallelism.

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Further Resources

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Author
Link
Type
Date

A Look Inside the Groq Approach to AI Inference

Nicole Hemsoth

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/10/23/a-look-inside-the-groq-approach-to-ai-inference/

Web

October 23, 2019

Groq Architecture

https://youtu.be/pb0PYhLk9r8

Web

December 11, 2019

Groq, A Stealthy Startup Founded By Google's TPU Team, Is Raising...

Jason D. Rowley

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/groq-a-stealthy-startup-founded-by-googles-tpu-team-is-raising-60m/

Web

September 6, 2018

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