Cornell study confirms GSI Technology’s APU matches GPU performance

SUNNYVALE - GSI Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:GSIT), a $148 million market cap semiconductor company, announced Monday that researchers at Cornell University have validated its Associative Processing Unit (APU) technology can match NVIDIA GPU performance while consuming 98% less energy. According to InvestingPro data, the company has seen impressive momentum with a 95% price return over the past six months.

The study, presented at the Micro ’25 conference, found that GSI’s Gemini-I APU delivered comparable throughput to NVIDIA’s A6000 GPU on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads while dramatically reducing energy consumption across various large datasets.

Cornell researchers benchmarked the Gemini-I APU against established CPUs and GPUs, determining it can perform retrieval tasks several times faster than standard CPUs, reducing total processing time by up to 80%.

"Cornell’s independent validation confirms what we’ve long believed—compute-in-memory has the potential to disrupt the $100 billion AI inference market," said Lee-Lean Shu, Chairman and CEO of GSI Technology, according to the press release.

The study specifically evaluated the APU’s performance on RAG tasks over datasets ranging from 10GB to 200GB, introducing a new analytical framework for general-purpose compute-in-memory devices.

GSI Technology noted that its second-generation Gemini-II silicon, recently released, can deliver approximately 10 times faster throughput with even lower latency for memory-intensive AI workloads while further improving energy efficiency.

The company believes the APU’s combination of speed, efficiency, and programmability positions it for growth opportunities in edge AI, data centers, defense, and markets where energy efficiency is critical.

GSI Technology, founded in 1995, focuses on semiconductor memory solutions and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company maintains a strong balance sheet with a current ratio of 5.79 and holds more cash than debt, according to InvestingPro’s comprehensive analysis, which includes additional insights available in their detailed Pro Research Report covering over 1,400 US stocks.

In other recent news, GSI Technology reported its first-quarter results for fiscal year 2026, revealing a 35% increase in revenue compared to the previous year, totaling $6.3 million. The company’s earnings per share showed a loss of $0.08, which met market expectations. Additionally, GSI Technology announced changes in its board of directors and committee leadership following its annual stockholders’ meeting. Five directors, including Elizabeth Cholawsky, Haydn Hsieh, Ruey L. Lu, Lee-Lean Shu, and Ronald R. Steger, were elected to serve until the next annual meeting. The elections saw vote counts ranging from 12,479,186 to 12,618,015 shares in favor of the nominees. Broker non-votes for each candidate were recorded at 6,103,899. These developments highlight GSI Technology’s recent strategic and organizational moves.

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