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Bolt Graphics is a Sunnyvale, California-based semiconductor startup developing the Zeus GPU architecture, combining a RISC-V command processor with custom SIMD and ray-tracing acceleration units, expandable memory (up to 384GB per card) and integrated 400GbE networking, targeting architectural visualization, film rendering, gaming and HPC simulation workloads.
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