NextSilicon Wins 2 Awards in 2025 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards
NextSilicon’s Maverick-2 Wins Best HPC Server and Top New Product to Watch in 2025 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards
Company’s revolutionary dataflow architecture honored at 22nd Annual HPCwire Awards Presented to Leaders in the Global HPC Community
ST. LOUIS — Nov. 17, 2025 - NextSilicon, a leader in next-generation computing solutions for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), has been recognized in the 22nd edition of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2025 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC25), in St. Louis, Missouri. NextSilicon was recognized with the following honors:
- Best HPC Server Product or Technology
- Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch
The awards recognize Maverick-2, built on the company’s Intelligent Compute Architecture (ICATM), for delivering up to 10x performance improvements over leading GPUs while using 60% less power. Its revolutionary dataflow architecture enables out-of-the-box acceleration for unmodified code and has already been deployed at dozens of customer sites, including Sandia National Laboratories’ Vanguard-II supercomputer.
“While the early advances in applying AI to science and engineering are producing exciting and impressive results, traditional HPC continues to drive breakthrough discoveries for mission-critical workloads and applications,” said Tom Tabor, CEO of TCI Media, publishers of HPCwire. “The 2025 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards truly capture this dynamic era of innovation.”
The coveted annual HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards are determined through a nomination and voting process with the global HPCwire community, as well as selections from the HPCwire editors. The awards are an annual feature of the publication and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community. They are revealed each year to kick off the annual supercomputing conference, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis.
“Across the globe, grand challenge problems are being tackled — and often solved — thanks to HPC, now amplified and accelerated by AI. Yet, many of these remarkable achievements rarely receive the recognition they deserve for their impact on society. With input from our worldwide community of HPC experts and the industry’s most respected editorial panel, the Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards stand as a powerful acknowledgment of the depth and diversity of HPC accomplishments worldwide. We extend our sincere gratitude and warmest congratulations to all of this year’s winners,” added Tabor.
NextSilicon recently disclosed architecture and performance details for Maverick-2, the next-generation processor enabling order-of-magnitude better compute for HPC and AI. Full benchmarking results are available here: https://www.nextsilicon.com/maverick.
“This recognition from the HPCwire community validates that the future isn’t about squeezing out incremental gains from old architectures, but fundamentally rethinking how computing works,” said Elad Raz, NextSilicon’s Founder and CEO. “Maverick-2 achieves meaningful performance gains today by dedicating silicon to actual computation instead of overhead. We’re proud that the HPC community values genuine breakthroughs.”
More information on these awards can be found at the HPCwire website (www.HPCwire.com) or on X through the following hashtag: #HPCwireRCA25.
About NextSilicon
NextSilicon is revolutionizing the future of high-performance computing with its Intelligent Compute Architecture (ICA), which blends adaptive computing with self-optimizing software-hardware integration. The company’s ICA solutions are designed to address the most demanding computational challenges by delivering unmatched performance, efficiency, and scalability. Industries such as finance, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and scientific research that rely on intensive and complex computations benefit from its dynamic workload optimization.
Established in 2017, NextSilicon has grown to over 350 employees globally and has raised more than $300 million in funding from leading investors like Amiti, Aleph, Liberty Technology VC, Playground Global, Standard Investments, StepStone, and Third Point Ventures. Its rapidly expanding partner ecosystem includes native support for commercial HPC libraries with partners like Dell Technologies, Penguin Solutions, Databank, Vibrint and E4.
For more information, please visit www.nextsilicon.com
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