With the rapid expansion of applications that can be characterized by dataflow processing, such as natural-language processing and recommendation engines, the performance and efficiency challenges of traditional, instruction set architectures have become apparent. To address this and enable the next generation of scientific and machine-learning applications, SambaNova Systems has developed the Reconfigurable Dataflow ArchitectureTM, a unique vertically integrated platform that is optimized from algorithm to silicon. Three key long-term trends infused SambaNova’s effort to develop this new accelerated computing architecture.