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Troubled AI Processor Developer Graphcore Finds a Buyer: SoftBank
July 12, 2024 4:30 PM EST After months of searching for a buyer, troubled U.K.-based AI processor designer Graphcore said on Friday that it has been acquired by SoftBank. The company will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and will possibly collaborate with Arm, but what remains to be seen what happens to the unique architecture of Graphcore's intelligence processing units (IPUs).
The company will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank and will possibly collaborate with Arm, but what remains to be seen what happens to the unique architecture of Graphcore's intelligence processing units (IPUs). Although Graphcore says that it had won contracts with major high-tech companies and deployed its IPUs, it could not compete against NVIDIA and other prêt-à-porter AI processor vendors due to insufficient funding. For now, the best processor that Graphcore has is its Colossus MK2 IPU, which is built using 59.4 billion transistors and packs in 1,472 independent cores with simultaneous multithreading (SMT) capable of handling 8,832 parallel threads.
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