# Axelera AI announces Metis, a 214 TOPS edge AI chip built on digital in-memory computing

Canonical page: https://technooptimist.io/stories/axelera-ai-announces-metis-a-214-tops-edge-ai-chip-built-on-digital-in-b0bdbf10
Date: 15 Dec 2022
About: [Axelera AI](https://technooptimist.io/companies/axelera-ai.md) · [Europa AIPU](https://technooptimist.io/computing/europa.md)
Original source: https://axelera.ai/axelera-ai-announces-metis-ai-platform

Axelera AI unveiled its first chip, Metis, a quad-core inference processor whose cores multiply inside SRAM memory. It claimed up to 214 TOPS at 15 TOPS/W in 8-bit integer maths, with full-precision accuracy without retraining networks.

## Key facts

- Four cores of up to 53.5 TOPS each; over 52 MiB of on-chip memory.
- Sold as an M.2 card (214 TOPS) and a four-chip PCIe card (856 TOPS).

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