JERUSALEM, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Israeli start-up Habana Labs has unveiled "Goya," an artificial intelligence chip, the financial website Globes reported on Wednesday.
According to Habana's comparative test, the new chip delivers almost three times the performance of Nvidia's competitor chip, which originally developed for image processing on computers but now used in most AI data centers.
A single Goya chip based computer board processes 15,000 images per second.
According to the company, three such cards could have performance equivalent to 169 Intel cards, or 8 Nvidia cards of the type used in Tesla electric cars.
Habana Labs, founded in 2016, has 120 employees in its offices in Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv and California in U.S. as well as its R&D center in the town of Caesarea, 50 kilometers north of Tel Aviv.
Artificial intelligence chips are installed on computer systems and data centers used to process large amounts of information such as identifying people in images, deciphering nerve networks, and analyzing text sentiment.
