Chips and edge compute
Axelera AI Metis AIPU
Netherlands
Europe's best-funded edge-AI chip startup (Eindhoven, NL): digital in-memory computing on RISC-V delivering 214 TOPS for ~$149, with the 629-TOPS Europa AIPU and a EUR 61.6M EuroHPC grant anchoring Europe's inference-sovereignty push.
VendorAxelera AI
CountryNL
Typeaccelerator
AI perf214 TOPS INT8 (peak, quad-core AIPU; 15 TOPS/W)
Power (W)8
Price (USD)$149
AvailabilityShipping (M.2/PCIe via distribution); next-gen Europa AIPU (629 TOPS INT8) shipments from H1 2026
Memory1 GB DRAM (M.2 card); 4-16 GB (PCIe card)
Form factorM.2 2280 M-Key card (3.5-9 W typ.) and PCIe HHHL card (8-15 W typ.)
Applicationsvision, AMR, industrial, retail analytics
Sources : Axelera AI (2026-07-09)Axelera AI Store (2026-07-09)Business Wire (Axelera) (2025-10-21)CNX Software (2023-01-02)
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