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16 Jan 2025

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Enterprise AI Company, SambaNova, Signs with IDCA for System, Design, and Services (SDS) Certification

Washington, DC – January 15, 2025 – International Data Center Authority (IDCA) announces that SambaNova Systems, based in Palo Alto, CA will evaluate its enterprise AI platform through IDCA's SDS (System, Design, Service) audits and certifications, according to a new agreement. The SDS audit process addresses the key issues associated with cutting-edge complex system, design, and service requirements and validates true delivery abilities that have become mission-critical during the ongoing, global AI data center revolution.

SambaNova, a 2024 Fortune Future 50 Company, delivers the fastest and most efficient chips and AI models: “We’ve signed with IDCA, an authority and benchmarking reference point for the digital infrastructure industry, to test our innovation against the strictures of the comprehensive SDS process,” stated Su Le, Chief Growth Officer of SambaNova Systems.

“AI is the clear driver for the world's Digital Economy, and AI technology at scale is now essential to be at the heart of progressive new data centers,” said IDCA Chairman and CEO Mehdi Paryavi on the occasion of this announcement. “Thus far from our observations, SambaNova is one of the few companies in the world with the product confidence, vision and expertise to deliver the technology equal to the task of this scale of development and equal to challenging the current leader in this critical market.”

Richard Banta, Chairman of the IDCA Technical Standards Committee stated, “Our technical and compliance teams have been mobilized to evaluate SambaNova’s AI technology and validate the company’s delivery claims to the highest standards.”

SDS delivers design, concept, and architecture certification routes for complex systems, tools, software, semiconductors, and infrastructure across the application, compute, platform, IT infrastructure, site facility infrastructure, site, and topology, thus ensuring not only a chip platform's fitness to power AI centers, but to ensure all aspects of the facility are optimized and synchronized for immediate high-performance computing.About SambaNova SystemsCustomers turn to SambaNova to quickly deploy state-of-the-art generative AI capabilities within the enterprise. Our purpose-built enterprise-scale AI platform is the technology backbone for the next generation of AI computing.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, SambaNova Systems was founded in 2017 by industry luminaries, and hardware and software design experts from Sun/Oracle and Stanford University. Investors include SoftBank Vision Fund 2, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Intel Capital, GV, Walden International, Temasek, GIC, Redline Capital, Atlantic Bridge Ventures, Celesta, and several others. Visit us at sambanova.ai or contact us at info@sambanova.ai. Follow SambaNova Systems on Linkedin and on X.

About IDCA

International Data Center Authority (IDCA), as a think tank, works to create AI Economies and Digital Economies through the standardization of the approach, selection, design, feasibility, operation, and various processes and methodologies of digital Infrastructure and related processes and systems.  IDCA is represented in more than 40 countries and active globally in North America, South America, Western Europe, Middle East, Eastern Europe, West Africa, North Africa, East Africa, Central, and South Africa, South East Asia, and Asia Pacific.

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