Tsavorite’s OPU promises 10x faster AI processing with just 10% of the energy use

AI startup Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence is betting big on a new computing paradigm. Its Founder and CEO, Shalesh Thusoo, says the company’s newly unveiled Omni Processing Unit (OPU) can deliver up to 10 times faster performance while using only 10% of the energy compared to conventional processors — a potential game-changer for the AI industry’s power-hungry workloads.

Thusoo told CNBC-TV18 that the OPU represents a fundamental shift from today’s GPU-centric world. “We set out to define a new processing unit for the next generation of AI compute — what we call the Omni Processing Unit,” he said. “Our processor can run ten times faster with only 10% of the energy use.”

The OPU blends CPU, GPU, memory, and high-speed interconnect into a single, composable architecture. Unlike GPUs — whi