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Lamb Labs

Chip company building Model Processing Units (MPUs) that hard-code an entire language model, weights included, into silicon to remove the memory-bandwidth bottleneck of GPUs, with a one-bit version of Qwen3.8 27B called Larry to chat with live and an FPGA prototype.

StageUndisclosed

Founded2026

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Lamb Labs MPU Hardware Demonstrated, not sold

  Model Processing Unit: a custom chip whose architecture and weights are hard-coded for one model, targeting 20,000+ tokens per second for a 27B-parameter model; not yet a chip on sale, with a one-bit model (Larry) to chat with live and an FPGA prototype as proof stages.

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No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

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AHArm HoldingsPublicLamb Labs MPU and Arm CSS for Mobile 2 both list accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to source custom AI silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTenstorrentLate-stageLamb Labs MPU and Tensix Neo both list accelerator silicon; both also serve buyers who need to source custom AI silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGroqLate-stageLamb Labs MPU and Groq LPU (GroqChip) both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSambaNovaLate-stageLamb Labs MPU and SambaNova RDU both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAMDPublicLamb Labs MPU and AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQualcommPublicLamb Labs MPU and Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCSCerebras SystemsPublicLamb Labs MPU and Cerebras WSE-3 Turbo (WSE-3T) both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMobileyePublicLamb Labs MPU and EyeQ System-on-Chip both list accelerator silicon; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGraphcoreUndisclosedLamb Labs MPU and IPU (Intelligence Processing Unit) both list accelerator silicon; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHRHorizon RoboticsPublicLamb Labs MPU and Journey 6 Series both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMTMarvell TechnologyPublicLamb Labs MPU and Marvell custom AI silicon both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHTHailo TechnologiesAcquiredLamb Labs MPU and Hailo AI accelerators both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded; Hailo Technologies is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBroadcomPublicLamb Labs MPU and Broadcom custom silicon both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAxelera AILate-stageLamb Labs MPU and Axelera Metis AIPU both list accelerator silicon; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNVIDIAPublicLamb Labs MPU and NVIDIA Blackwell both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCiscoPublicLamb Labs MPU and Cisco Silicon One both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHuaweiUndisclosedLamb Labs MPU and Atlas both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded; Huawei's scale not comparable: only a revenue estimate, no market cap or valuation.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIntelPublicLamb Labs MPU and Intel Gaudi AI Accelerator both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAmazonPublicLamb Labs MPU and AWS Inferentia both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlphabet (Google)PublicLamb Labs MPU and Google Cloud TPU both list accelerator silicon; Lamb Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Total funding

Not found · 19 Oct 2026

Pages read for this record state no funding total. Tried the home page and the company's YC profile.

Valuation

Not found · 19 Oct 2026

Pages read for this record state no valuation. Tried the home page and the company's YC profile.

Founded

Company disclosure · 19 Oct 2026

Own YC profile lists Founded: 2026; lamb-labs.com states no founding year. The pages name no legal entity.

Public listing

Not found · 19 Oct 2026

No listing on the pages read; treated as private.

Description

Official documentation · 19 Oct 2026

Home page: "Lamb Labs is building MPUs (Model Processing Units). We hardcode the entire model, including its weights, into silicon."

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