{"id":15450,"date":"2024-07-12T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=15450"},"modified":"2024-07-12T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T02:00:33","slug":"%e5%b0%98%e5%9f%83%e8%90%bd%e5%ae%9a%ef%bc%8c%e8%8b%b1%e5%9b%bd-ai-%e8%8a%af%e7%89%87%e4%bc%81%e4%b8%9a-graphcore-%e5%b7%b2%e8%a2%ab%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/15450.html","title":{"rendered":"The dust has settled, British AI chip company Graphcore has been acquired by SoftBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vmark=\"106a\">according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/graphcore\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Graphcore<\/a> Official website, this company is in trouble<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b1%e5%9b%bd\" title=\"[Sees articles with [British] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >U.K.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e8%8a%af%e7%89%87\" title=\"[SEES ARTICLES WITH TAGS]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Chips<\/a>The company has been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [softbank]]\" target=\"_blank\" >SoftBank<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%ad\" title=\"[See articles with [acquisition] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Acquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"e405\">According to the agreement,<strong>Graphcore will become a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and continue to operate under its existing name<\/strong>The parties did not disclose the specific transaction value.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"01ed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15451\" title=\"356b5d5f-5ccc-4040-b985-d5a8f9b01fb7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/356b5d5f-5ccc-4040-b985-d5a8f9b01fb7.png\" alt=\"356b5d5f-5ccc-4040-b985-d5a8f9b01fb7\" width=\"1440\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"f5cc\">Founded in 2016 in Bristol, a city in southwest England, Graphcore has launched several generations of AI workload accelerators called Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs for short).<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"c017\">Graphcore was once regarded as the &quot;British version of Nvidia&quot;. However, since 2020, the company has not received new financing and has lost important orders from Microsoft, which has caused it to<strong>Tight funds, operational difficulties, and failure to keep up with the trend in the field of AI chips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"0c00\">Nigel Toon, co-founder and CEO of Graphcore, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-vmark=\"e8d5\">This (referring to the acquisition by SoftBank) is a great recognition of our team and its ability to build truly transformative AI technology at scale, and is a great achievement for our company.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"ddd2\">The demand for AI computing is huge and continues to grow. There is still much work to be done to improve the efficiency, elasticity, and computing power to unlock the full potential of AI.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"0a45\">Joining SoftBank gives us a partner who can help the Graphcore team redefine the landscape of AI technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-vmark=\"083a\">According to foreign media TechCrunch, Nigel Toon confirmed to the outside world that Graphcore will not lay off employees after the acquisition and is considering increasing the number of employees in the UK.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Graphcore's official website, the struggling British AI chip company has been acquired by SoftBank. Under the deal, Graphcore will become a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and continue to operate under its current name. The two sides did not disclose the value of the deal. Founded in 2016 in the southwestern British city of Bristol, Graphcore has launched several generations of AI load gas pedals known as Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs). At one point, Graphcore was seen as the \"UK's version of NVIDIA\". However, since 2020, the company has not received new financing and has lost important orders from Microsoft, which has left it cash-strapped and struggling to operate.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1099,3468,1747,552,1253],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-15450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-graphcore","tag-1747","tag-552","tag-1253"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15450"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=15450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}