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Axelera AI Metis AIPU

asic-other Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC) with RISC-V 2024

Fields

id
accelerators/axelera-metis
Vendor
asic-other
Architecture
Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC) with RISC-V
Release year
2024
Form factors
m2pcie
VRAM (GB)
1
Memory type
DRAM (1 GB dedicated DRAM per Metis AIPU on Embedded 110m module)
Bandwidth basis
Axelera Embedded 110m product brochure: 1 GB DRAM per AIPU; off-chip memory bus width and bandwidth in GB/s are not published by the vendor.
Peak FLOPS
precisionint8tflops214denseyesvendor_claimyessource_idainv-axelera-metis-specsheetbasisvendor-spec-sheetbasis_detailAxelera Metis specifications and Embedded 110m brochure: Peak INT8 TOPS: 214 per single Metis AIPU (4 D-IMC cores).
TDP (W)
10
Unified memory
no
Consumer part
no
notes
Axelera AI Metis is an edge AI inference accelerator integrating four Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC) cores controlled by RISC-V dataflow cores. Peak INT8 compute is 214 TOPS per AIPU (quad-core). Packaged into the Embedded 110m M.2 2280 module with 1 GB dedicated DRAM (3.5-9W typical card power) and the Server 150p PCIe card with 4 Metis AIPUs delivering 856 INT8 TOPS and 8 GB DRAM (30-58W card power). Process node is not disclosed in the official product briefs (reported elsewhere as 12nm, left null here). Bare chip TDP is null because the vendor publishes only module/board typical power. 2026-10-11 MERGE: two crawlers, two Axelera documents. The Embedded 110m brochure PDF (ainv-axelera-metis-specsheet) states 1 GB DRAM per AIPU and 3.5-9W; the Metis product page (axelera-metis-aipu-product-page) states 214 TOPS INT8, 15 TOPS/W and 10W typical. vram_gb 1.0 from the brochure, tdp_w 10 from the product page (the product page figure is chosen over the brochure range because it is stated as 'typical' for the AIPU itself rather than a module range). Both sources declared. memory_bandwidth_gbps and memory_bus_bit stay null: neither document publishes them.

Notes

Axelera AI Metis is an edge AI inference accelerator integrating four Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC) cores controlled by RISC-V dataflow cores. Peak INT8 compute is 214 TOPS per AIPU (quad-core). Packaged into the Embedded 110m M.2 2280 module with 1 GB dedicated DRAM (3.5-9W typical card power) and the Server 150p PCIe card with 4 Metis AIPUs delivering 856 INT8 TOPS and 8 GB DRAM (30-58W card power). Process node is not disclosed in the official product briefs (reported elsewhere as 12nm, left null here). Bare chip TDP is null because the vendor publishes only module/board typical power.

2026-10-11 MERGE: two crawlers, two Axelera documents. The Embedded 110m brochure PDF (ainv-axelera-metis-specsheet) states 1 GB DRAM per AIPU and 3.5-9W; the Metis product page (axelera-metis-aipu-product-page) states 214 TOPS INT8, 15 TOPS/W and 10W typical. vram_gb 1.0 from the brochure, tdp_w 10 from the product page (the product page figure is chosen over the brochure range because it is stated as 'typical' for the AIPU itself rather than a module range). Both sources declared. memory_bandwidth_gbps and memory_bus_bit stay null: neither document publishes them.

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