Habana Labs
Israeli AI-chip firm behind the Gaudi accelerators, bought by Intel in 2019 as its answer to Nvidia's grip on training.
Started in 2016 in Caesarea with two chips: Goya for inference and Gaudi for training. The pitch was Ethernet RoCE built straight onto the die, so large training clusters could be wired with ordinary networking gear rather than Nvidia's proprietary NVLink.
Intel bought the company in December 2019 for around $2 billion and made Gaudi the centrepiece of its AI line-up, later carried forward as Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3. It competes with Cerebras, Graphcore and SambaNova for the narrow slice where anyone dares to take on CUDA.