GSI Technology and Partner Space Micro Awarded NASA Phase 1 Contract for Radiation Tolerant AI Processing in Space
April 06 2021 - 8:00AM
GSI Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIT), a leading
provider of high-performance memory solutions for the networking,
telecommunications and military markets, and developer of the
Gemini® Associative Processing Unit (APU) for Artificial
Intelligence, today announced that, along with prime contractor
partner Space Micro, Inc., it has been awarded a Phase 1
contract by NASA to develop an optimal real-time data sorting
inference processing unit (IPU) board for Earth observation
missions that require higher processing power.
As sensors quickly advance, they produce large quantities of
data that reveal a critical downside for space-based platforms.
They require large amounts of mission data and calibration data to
be downlinked, and their data products cannot be conveyed in near
real-time. High-performance processors, such as the GSI and
Space Micro IPU, are resolving these issues.
“We are pleased to have earned this opportunity to begin working
with NASA for its Earth observation mission,” said Paul Armijo,
Jr., director of aerospace and defense business sector, GSI
Technology. “Our highly skilled team of engineers looks forward to
collaborating with NASA in support of the advancement of space
exploration and the development of high-performance space computing
technology.”
The GSI and Space Micro IPU plugs into the main communication
bus and offers enhanced parallel processing power, much like a
supercomputer cluster. The main system can reconfigure the IPU
device to scale up and down, specifying a specific state depending
on the needs of the current task. For added performance and
redundancy, multiple processors can be included on the same board,
with the capability to stack multiple units together.
The cross-cutting radiation tolerant space on-board data
processing product resulting from the NASA contract has the
potential to enable many potential NASA space missions, including
both manned and unmanned landers and experiments.
ABOUT GSI TECHNOLOGY
Founded in 1995, GSI Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of
SRAM semiconductor memory solutions. The Company recently launched
radiation-hardened memory products for extreme environments and the
Gemini® APU, a memory-centric associative processing unit designed
to deliver performance advantages for diverse AI applications.
Gemini APU's architecture breaks the Von Neuman model, the
foundation of computing since the 1940’s. Featuring parallel data
processing with two million-bit processors per chip, Gemini’s
massive in-memory processing reduces computation time from minutes
to milliseconds, even microseconds. Gemini excels at large (billion
item) database search applications, like facial recognition, drug
discovery, Elasticsearch, and object detection. Gemini’s scalable
format, small footprint and low power consumption, make it an ideal
solution for edge applications where rapid, accurate responses are
critical. For more information, please visit
www.gsitechnology.com.
Contacts:
Investor RelationsHayden IRKim
Rogers385-831-7337Kim@HaydenIR.com
Media RelationsFinn Partners for GSI
TechnologyJulie Ortega510-697-5599 gsi@finnpartners.com
CompanyGSI Technology, Inc.Douglas M.
SchirleChief Financial Officer408-331-9802
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