Observed arrival · 2026-10-29
Valley Semiconductor’s AI-silicon prototype
Valley Semiconductor is developing VECTRA, a programmable chip intended to run AI models locally; its FPGA prototype has a browser-based question-and-answer demo.
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- The page reports zero differing outputs across 248,320 comparisons; its roughly 16 W figure is a projected chip target.
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The demo asks visitors to submit a question, then describes a live FPGA session that reads the prompt before producing an answer; the page also offers a replay. It sets expectations at about three words per second and roughly 70 words per answer. The company says its compiler runs dense, mixture-of-experts, and hybrid models on the same hardware, so a new model would be compiled rather than requiring a new chip.
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