Khemani said that unlike commodity data center chips repurposed for AI, Skyhammer is being developed specifically for AI scale‑up use cases and is tightly coupled to Upscale’s broader full‑stack strategy, which spans silicon, systems and software.
Khemani declined to share detailed timelines, but he said Upscale expects to reveal product details on Skyhammer later this year, with actual deployment synced to when GPU and XPU vendors are ready. “The Skyhammer product doesn’t work by itself,” he explained. “It works in conjunction with XPUs and GPUs, and so for us to be deployed, the XPUs and GPUs need to incorporate scale‑up capabilities to interoperate with us.”
Nvidia, Spectrum X, and strategic capital
Nvidia sits at the center of Upscale AI’s story, both as a technology partner and now as a strategic investor.
