12 alternatives to Intel (Gaudi) in AI Hardware & Accelerator Chips. 9 of them are tracked direct competitors.
| Company | Pricing | Open source | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel (Gaudi)this pageIntel's Gaudi AI accelerator chip line. | Paid | No | Public |
| Etcheddirect competitorStartup building an ASIC chip specialized solely for transformer inference. | — | — | — |
| Groqdirect competitorCustom LPU chip maker offering extremely low-latency LLM inference. | Enterprise | No | Series D+ |
| MatXdirect competitorStartup designing chips purpose-built for large-model training. | Enterprise | No | — |
| NVIDIAdirect competitorDominant maker of GPUs powering most AI training and inference. | Enterprise | No | Public |
| Positron AIdirect competitorStartup building custom inference accelerators. | — | — | — |
| Rain AIdirect competitorStartup developing brain-inspired, energy-efficient AI chips. | Enterprise | No | Series A |
| SambaNovadirect competitorAI hardware and platform company enabling custom model training. | Enterprise | No | Series D+ |
| Tenstorrentdirect competitorAI chip company led by Jim Keller, building RISC-V AI processors. | Enterprise | Yes | Series D+ |
| Untether AIdirect competitorCanadian AI chipmaker focused on energy-efficient inference. | Enterprise | No | Series B |
| AMDChipmaker competing in AI accelerators with its Instinct GPU line. | Enterprise | No | Public |
| AWS (Trainium/Inferentia)Amazon's custom silicon for AI training and inference. | Paid | No | Public |
| BlaizeEdge AI chipmaker for computer-vision and inference workloads. | Paid | No | Series C |
Direct competitors are curated relationships in the index. The remaining entries share the AI Hardware & Accelerator Chips category.