News Softbank takes over AI processor designer Graphcore

[Admin]

Softbank acquires Graphcore, an AI processor developer, as it preps a push into AI datacenters.

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[bit_user]

It's good to hear something (hopefully) productive is happening with Graphcore.

It also boasted 900 MB of SRAM, offering an aggregated bandwidth of 47.5 TB/s per chip, eliminating the need for external memory.

No, it still needs external DDR4 memory.

Yet, it will take some time for the company to scale up its operations, as it is barely possible to compete successfully against Nvidia, which has about half a thousand employees.

This wording is super weird. I've never heard the phrase "half a thousand" and don't see why it's any better than "about 500". Worse, it sounds as if you're talking about Nvidia's headcount.

 

[bill001g]

Be interesting if they can turn this around. They have lost money since they started. Microsoft was a large early investor and then later announced they would not use the chips.