Dell Technologies vs SambaNova

Dell Technologies — Hardware · Public · $360.7B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  SambaNova — Hardware · Private · $11B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Dell PowerEdge XE7745 and SambaRack do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

3 of 7 capabilities — Shares AI compute hardware, model inference and server systems.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship hardware and infrastructure service.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — SambaNova: $11B valuation, against Dell Technologies's $360.7B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldDell TechnologiesSambaNova
Size$360.7B mkt cap$11B valuation different basis
Employees97,000425 SambaNova has 228× fewer
Founded19842017 33 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryHardwareHardware match
Stack layerData service, Developer tool, Hardware, Infrastructure serviceHardware, Infrastructure service, Model API
HeadquartersRound Rock, USASan Jose, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

AI compute hardwareModel inferenceServer systems

Not verified for SambaNova · 4

Data analysisModel hostingModel trainingKnowledge retrieval

Recorded for Dell Technologies. SambaNova’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Dell Technologies · 1

Accelerator silicon

Recorded for SambaNova. Dell Technologies’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Dell Technologies

Infrastructure service

Dell AI Factory with NVIDIAInfrastructure service

Packaged servers, storage, networking and services sold as one route from AI pilot to production, jointly branded with NVIDIA.

Hardware

Dell PowerEdge XE7745Hardware

Air-cooled 4U rack server supporting up to eight double-wide PCIe GPUs for flexible AI inference and fine-tuning workloads.

Dell PowerEdge XE9680Hardware

Eight-GPU rack server Dell sells for model training and inference.

Dell PowerEdge XE9685LHardware

Liquid-cooled 4U rack server with eight NVLink-interconnected NVIDIA HGX B200 GPUs, built for AI inference and model fine-tuning.

Dell PowerEdge XE9712Hardware

Rack-scale server sled pairing NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with Grace CPUs over a coherent NVLink memory fabric for large-scale AI training.

Dell Pro Max AI DesktopHardware

Compact workstations built on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell superchips with large unified memory, sold for local large-language-model development and inference.

SambaNova

Infrastructure service

SambaStackInfrastructure service

Full-stack AI system pairing SambaNova's RDU hardware with its serving software, deployed in a customer's own data centre.

Hardware

SambaNova RDUHardware

Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit accelerators designed to run large models at low latency.

SambaRackHardware

Air-cooled, rack-scale AI inference hardware system integrating 16 SN50 RDU chips per rack (scalable across multiple racks); accessed via on-premises deployment, SambaCloud, or contact-sales for enterprise/government deployments.

No counterpart

Dell Technologies sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for SambaNova yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

Dell Enterprise HubDeveloper tool

Curated catalogue of AI models and applications preconfigured with optimised containers for one-click on-premises deployment on Dell hardware, built with Hugging Face.

Data service

Dell AI Data PlatformData service

Modular data-readiness offering combining Dell storage engines with analytics, processing, orchestration and search engines to prepare enterprise data for AI training and inference.

SambaNova sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Dell Technologies yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Model API

SambaCloudModel API

Hosted inference service serving open-weight models on SambaNova's own RDU hardware, billed per token.

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