South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters

South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has deployed its RNGD AI accelerators at Equinix's Lisbon datacenter, targeting European demand for sovereign AI compute. The RNGD cards offer 48 GB HBM3, 1.5 TB/s bandwidth, and 512 teraFLOPS of FP8 performance with an 180W TDP, while Furiosa collaborates with Broadcom on a next-gen chip using HBM4 memory.