Bristol AI chip upstart Graphcore scores $30m in VC dosh

A Bristol upstart backed by Samsung and ARM daddy Hermann Hauser has raised $30m to make chips designed especially for machine learning. Graphcore, led by CEO Nigel Toon, says it has "created a complete software and hardware system, based on our Intelligent Processing Unit (IPU), that will accelerate the full range of current …

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Sell out?

Perhaps he's hoping to sell out to nVidia again? At least this time it's clear they'll be buying to shut them down and kill off a competitor.