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AI 基础设施公司 Cornelis 融资 2.05 亿美元，挑战 Nvidia 主导地位
Cornelis 宣布完成由 IAG Capital Partners 领投的 2.05 亿美元融资。该公司 2020 年从 Intel 分拆，提供帮助 AI 芯片更高效通信的网络技术，并发布 Active Compute Fabric，使芯片可同时处理和发送数据，以减少 GPU 等待数据的时间。其开放架构允许搭配多种 GPU 与加速器，产品已开始出货，新一代预计年内发布。
AI推荐理由 给出具体融资额 2.05 亿美元、领投方 IAG Capital Partners、2020 年从 Intel 分拆、已开始出货并计划年内推出新一代产品，以及 Active Compute Fabric 让芯片边处理边传输数据的技术思路；对 AI 芯片互联与打破 Nvidia 生态锁定有实际参考价值。
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1:07 PM PDT · September 14, 2026
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AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance
Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners.
It also announced a product it calls Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive. Cornelis hopes to address this with a networking fabric that lets chips process and send information at the same time.
The company, which spun off from Intel in 2020, is competing with Nvidia by offering an open architecture, meaning customers can use a variety of GPU and accelerator hardware with Cornelis’ networking fabric. Though Nvidia chips can technically run on other networking fabrics, they’re optimized to run on Nvidia’s own software, making it much easier — and more enticing — for customers to use Nvidia’s full GPU stack. Cornelis is part of a new wave of AI infrastructure companies emerging to break apart Nvidia’s market dominance, piece by piece (or chip by chip, one could say).
Cornelis has already started shipping its product and is working on a new generation of it, expected to be released later this year.
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