SambaNova, an AI chip company, announced a collaboration with Oracle to bring its chips to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centres. The deal pairs OCI's infrastructure with SambaNova's Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) chips, aimed at AI inference. Oracle plans to host the systems and offer the capacity to customers that need a high-performance, efficient inference platform. "Inference demand is growing fast," said Karan Batta, senior vice president of OCI. SambaNova's SN50 is its fifth-generation RDU, built for agentic AI. The company says it delivers up to 5X the maximum speed of competing chips and 3X lower total cost of ownership. Each SambaRack SN50 draws an average of 20 kW, low enough for existing air-cooled data centres. The chip can also work alongside NVIDIA GPUs.

Oracle is adding AI chips from Google, Cerebras, and SambaNova to its cloud networks, as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia. It marks the first time Google is selling its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for use in a third-party data centre, rather than only renting out capacity. Cerebras' chips will provide AI inference and AI agent processing power, while SambaNova's SN50 processor will handle agentic inference. Companies want to avoid being locked into a single supplier and to contain costs. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic also have or are developing custom chips. Nvidia is not in immediate trouble, though. Oracle is also bringing Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 superclusters and Vera CPUs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle is also partnering with OpenAI on an AI Workspace, which lets users access Oracle's tools via ChatGPT.

SambaNova and Oracle Collaborate to Bring High-Performance Inference to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure TMCnet News [October 27, 2026] | / | SambaNova and Oracle Collaborate to Bring High-Performance Inference to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SambaNova, the AI chip company delivering high-performance inference, today announced a collaboration with Oracle to bring its AI chips to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers. The collaboration will combine OCI's infrastructure with SambaNova's Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) chips to deliver a new level of performance, speed, and efficiency at scale to AI customers. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261027598375/en/ SambaNova and Oracle are collaborating to deploy SambaNova SN50 AI chips in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers "Our customers want the right infrastructure for every AI workload, and inference demand is growing fast," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle. "We plan to bring SambaNova's RDU chips to OCI to give AI builders another efficient way to run models at scale." Oracle plans to host the systems in its data centers and provide the capacity to customers who need a high-performance and highly efficient inference platform. "Oracle doesn't wait for the market to settle; it builds ahead of it," said Rodrigo Liang, co-founder and CEO, SambaNova. "Agents are driving the next wave of inference demand. They need tokens fast, all day, at a cost that works. That's what SN50 was built to do. OCI will put that capacity in the hands of the builders who need it." Oracle began investing in AI infrastructure early and has continued to expand its efforts, from gigawatt-scale AI data centers to a widening range of compute on OCI. Inference is the next shift: agentic AI runs nonstop, and chains mode calls. That demands fast, efficient tokens that deliver ROI within the year. SambaNova's high-performance inference gives customers a new option for exactly this kind of workload. About the SambaNova SN50 RDU Chip SN50, SambaNova's fifth-generation RDU, is purpose-built for agentic AI. It delivers up to 5X the maximum speed of competitive chips and 3X lower total cost of ownership. SambaRack SN50 draws an average of 20 kW per rack, low enough to scale in existing air-cooled data centers. SN50 is also built for disaggregated inference, where GPUs handle prefill, and SN50 handles decode, the token-generation stage that determines how fast agents respond. With SN50 alongside NVIDIA GPUs, SambaNova is boosting token-generation capability to existing GPU infrastructure. About Oracle Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit Fog Computing World at www.oracle.com. About SambaNova SambaNova is a leader in next-generation AI infrastructure, providing a full stack platform that powers high-performance inference for enterprises, NeoClouds, AI labs and service providers, and sovereign AI initiatives worldwide. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., SambaNova delivers chips, systems, and cloud services that enable customers to deploy state-of-the-art models with superior performance, lower total cost of ownership, and rapid time to value. For more information, visit sambanova.ai or contact [email protected]. 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