Graphcore raises $450M from SoftBank to expand AI chip development and strengthen its position in the AI hardware market.

Company’s open-source software has matured significantly, and now the development community is taking over some of load. Graphcore has made significant advancements since we published the original ...

Is AI chipmaker Graphcore out to eat Nvidia's lunch? Co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon laughs at that interview opener -- perhaps because he sold his previous company to the chipmaker back in 2011. "I'm ...

The U.K. has a strong history when it comes to processors, but the global chip market has seen some ups and downs of late. Today comes some big news that underscores how investors are doubling down on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Applications based on artificial intelligence -- whether they are systems running autonomous services, platforms being used in ...

Most computers in the world tend to do one thing and then move on to the next thing, a series of sequential tasks. For decades, computer scientists have struggled to get machines to do multiple things ...

Shortly after Google parent Alphabet reportedly abandoned its ambitions to purchase online marketing software company HubSpot, the tech giant decided to pursue another big acquisition. This time, ...

Graphcore co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon says that "tens of thousands" of his start-up's intelligent processing units (IPUs) have now been shipped. Microsoft is using Graphcore's chips in some of its ...

The 3D stacking of chips has been the subject of much speculation and innovation in the past decade, and we will be the first to admit that we have been mostly thinking about this as a way to cram ...

A computer chip start-up designing hardware for artificial intelligence (AI) applications has raised $30 million to help it take on giants like Intel and Nvidia. U.K.-based Graphcore is aiming to ship ...

MLPerf, the benchmark suite of tests for how long it takes to train a computer to perform machine learning tasks, has a new contender with the release Wednesday of results showing Graphcore, the ...