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Uncle Sam's next big supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs

What happened

Sandia National Lab accepted the Spectra supercomputer, powered by 128 of NextSilicon's Maverick-2 dataflow accelerators. This validates the Maverick-2 architecture for high-performance scientific computing, challenging Nvidia's dominance in FP64 workloads.

Impact and signal

Low impactImpact score: 15/100

Affected components and suppliers

Maverick-2Dataflow processorsFP64 accelerators

NextSiliconSandia National LabPenguin Solutions

Maverick-2

supercomputerdataflowFP64Maverick-2Sandia

Source and time

Source: The Register · 5/18/2026 · View original source

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Uncle Sam's next big supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs

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