Annapurna is a fabless semiconductor company serving the high performance Embedded and Data Center/cloud markets with a Platform-on-Chip approach. Annapurna optimizes cloud infrastructure performance and cost by moving the hypervisor and networking stack to a purpose-built hardware accelerator (ASIC).

Annapurna Labs enabled the launch of blazing fast AWS virtual machines by allowing the Intel Xen hypervisor to be be replaced with a highly optimized KVM hypervisor tightly coupled with Annapurna's ASICs.