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SoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with Graphcore Acquisition

BRISTOL, England, July 12, 2024 -- Graphcore today announced that the company has been acquired by SoftBank Group Corp. Under the deal, Graphcore becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of ...Full Article

Graphcore Announces Wafer-on-Wafer IPU, ‘Good’ Computer

Graphcore introduced its AI-focused, PCIe-based Intelligent Processing Units (IPUs) six years ago. Since then, the company has done anything but slow down, announcing a second generation of IPUs in ...Full Article

Nvidia Still Dominates Latest MLPerf Results, but Competitors Are Making Some Noise

MLCommons today released its fifth round of MLPerf training benchmark results and Nvidia GPUs again dominated the rankings, but competitors were not taking those results sitting down. One of ...Full Article

Graphcore Unveils Its Latest and Largest Commercially-Available IPU Pods

After launching its second-generation intelligence processing units (IPUs) in 2020, four years after emerging from stealth, Graphcore is now boosting its product line with its largest commercially-available IPU-based systems: ...Full Article

Inference Chip Vendor Untether AI Brings in $125M In Oversubscribed Round B Funding

Untether AI, which specializes in AI inferencing chips for neural networks, cloud infrastructure and more, recently sought $100 million in new Round B funding for its operations and growth. ...Full Article

Latest MLPerf Results See Intel, Graphcore, Google Increase Their Presence Behind Nvidia

While Nvidia again dominated the latest round of MLPerf training benchmark results, the range of participants has expanded. Yes, Google’s forthcoming TPU v4 performed well, but competitors also shined. ...Full Article

Graphcore IPU Gets a Public Cloud Boost

Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, is expanding its roster of cloud partners to include Cirrascale Cloud Partners, a deep learning infrastructure specialist. The result of the collaboration is ...Full Article

Graphcore Expanding Its AI Compute Platform Sales with Its First Channel Partner Program

AI compute platform vendor Graphcore has launched its first formal global channel partner program to promote and boost the sales of its AI processors and blade computing products. The ...Full Article

Graphcore Introduces Next-Gen Intelligence Processing Unit for AI Workloads

British hardware designer Graphcore, which emerged from stealth in 2016 to launch its first-generation Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), has announced its next-generation IPU platform: the IPU-Machine M2000. With the ...Full Article

Microsoft Azure Adds Graphcore’s IPU

Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, is expanding collaboration with Microsoft to offer its intelligent processing units on the Azure cloud, making Microsoft the first large public cloud vendor ...Full Article