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Majestic Labs ditches the GPU to beat Nvidia’s memory wall

This article was published on August 3, 2026 Majestic Labs has unveiled a server that drops the GPU for Arm cores and up to 128TB of cheap LPDDR6 memory. It claims to shame a rack of Nvidia chips on memory and power. None of it has shipped or been independently tested. The AI hardware conversation is stuck on one word: compute. A startup out of Tel Aviv wants to change the word to memory. Majestic Labs, founded in 2023 by former Google and Meta engineers, has unveiled a server it says can do the work of a rack of Nvidia GPUs. It does so by attacking a different bottleneck. The pitch, reported by TechRadar, is that pairing pricey GPUs with scarce high-bandwidth memory has become a dead end for AI inference. Running a model is often limited by how much fast memory you can reach, not raw compute. So Majestic ditched the GPU. Its server, Prometheus, swaps graphics chips for what it calls Ignite AI Processing Units. Each unit blends Arm cores with RISC-V vector and tensor engines. Up to 12 sit in one server, sharing a single pool of 8TB to 128TB of LPDDR6. That is the cheap memory found in phones, not the costly high-bandwidth memory that GPUs depend on. The trick is the wiring. Instead

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Majestic Labs ditches the GPU to beat Nvidia’s memory wall

This article was published on August 3, 2026 Majestic Labs has unveiled a server that drops the GPU for Arm cores and up to 128TB of cheap LPDDR6 memory. It claims to shame a rack of Nvidia chips on memory and power.…

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Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Etched on Tuesday announced that…

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T2 · Outlet reportThe Next WebAug 12, 2026

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