Axera launches AX8860 series edge AI chips, targeting GB10 and positioning for physical AI

Axera has launched the AX8860 series of high-compute edge AI chips, including the AX8860, AX8860P, and the Yuanxi module A256S. The chips use a 6nm process, feature 16 Cortex-A55 cores, and deliver NPU peak compute of 256 TOPS. They support up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory with 273GB/s bandwidth, and can scale via AXLink dual-chip and four-chip cascading to 512GB of memory and 1024 TOPS of compute.