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SambaNova SN40L

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A three-tier memory design: SRAM, HBM and terabytes of DDR on one accelerator.

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The SN40L attacks large-model serving with memory hierarchy: 520 MB of SRAM, 64 GB of HBM and up to 1.5 TB of DDR per socket, letting one 8-socket node hold trillion-parameter model collections and switch between them instantly. SambaNova sells full racks and a cloud, targeting enterprises and sovereign buyers.

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Designer SambaNova Systems
Announced September 2023

Manufacturing

Foundry / process TSMC N5, chipletVendor spec

Memory

Memory tiers 520 MB SRAM + 64 GB HBM + up to 1.5 TB DDR5 per socketVendor spec

Compute

BF16 638 TFLOPSVendor spec

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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.