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Lightbits set to release KV cache engine to boost GPU performance
Lightbits ships Inferra: moving KV cache off-GPU to unlock inference economics at scale.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
KV cache is the inference bottleneck starving GPUs. Offloading it to storage changes how practitioners budget for LLM inference workloads — lower per-token cost, denser packing, but new latency tradeoffs to model.
The key facts
5 to knowLightbits Labs releases Inferra — KV cache engine for inference optimization
Moves key-value cache data beyond GPU high-bandwidth memory (HBM) onto external storage
Targets inference economics and GPU performance improvement
Company known for NVMe over TCP protocol invention
General availability announced September 9, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: Lightbits Labs Ltd. today announced the general availability of Inferra, a software engine designed to improve the economics and performance of artificial intelligence inference by moving key-value cache data beyond the limited high-bandwidth memory attached to graphics processing units. The…