A Korean chip startup wants to sell Europe a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia. Its first “renegade” accelerators just went live in a Lisbon datacentre.
FuriosaAI has switched on its RNGD AI accelerators in Europe. The South Korean startup is installing RNGD servers at Equinix’s LS2 datacentre in Lisbon, it announced on Tuesday. The name is pronounced “renegade.”
The Lisbon deployment builds on a foothold Furiosa already has there. The company runs a compiler-focused R&D lab in the city, plus a new flagship office. The timing is deliberate. The reveal coincides with the RAISE Summit in Paris. It lands as European enterprises hunt for efficient AI compute they can source close to home.
The efficiency pitch
RNGD is built for power, not headline speed. Each accelerator uses a 5nm Tensor Contraction Processor design. It delivers 512 teraFLOPS of FP8 and holds to a strict 180-watt thermal profile. Eight of them form the NXT RNGD Server, a 3kW system. Furiosa pitches it as a dense, air-cooled inference engine that drops into standard racks. No liquid cooling or retrofits required.
