GSI Technology, Inc. announced tape-out of the Gemini-II Associated Processing Unit, its second generation of the patented compute-in-memory APU family, on TSMC?s 16nm process. Gemini-II will bring significant performance enhancements over Gemini-I with more than ten times the processing performance with eight times the memory density compared to Gemini-I. These upgrades provide 184 TOPS (8bit adds) and more than 5.8 Peta OPS for Boolean operations at 1.4GHz operation. Gemini-II?s combination of high processing power, large built-in memory with tremendous bandwidth with reduced power consumption and latency provides a best-in-class solution for AI applications.

Gemini-II contains 1 million Bit Processors in six megabytes of associative compute memory tightly connected to 96 megabytes of distributed SRAM with a huge 46 terabyte per second bandwidth. The Gemini APU implements bit-granular processing, which allows users fully flexible cycle by cycle data format operation, an inherent advantage versus other parallel processors. Gemini-II is a complete package that includes a DDR4 controller and external interfaces for PCIe Gen4 by 16, and PCIe Gen4 by 4. This integrated solution offers substantial processing capabilities, being suitable for both low power data center expansion and enabling data center functions at the edge.

This empowers local execution of computationally intensive tasks, increasing the capabilities of edge applications like advanced driver assistance systems for automobiles, and HPC in delivery drones, autonomous robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellites.