Graphcore

According to Graphcore's official website, the troubled British AI chip company has been acquired by SoftBank. According to the agreement, Graphcore will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank and continue to operate under its current name. The two parties did not disclose the specific transaction value. Graphcore was founded in Bristol, a city in southwest England in 2016, and has launched several generations of AI workload accelerators called Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU for short). Graphcore was once regarded as "…