Tag: AI Chips
Half a million H200 chips wait out a decision in Hong Kong
Reuters reports roughly 600,000 of Nvidia's H200 accelerators are sitting in Hong Kong while Beijing declines to approve…
A British chip startup reaches a $6.5B value before shipping a wafer
Fractile closed roughly $700M with the UK's sovereign AI fund on the cap table while its in-memory inference…
FuriosaAI banks $620M by selling power as the bottleneck
The South Korean inference chip startup reached a $2.9B valuation on the argument that data centers are short…
Google hands Oracle the keys to sell its TPUs
For the first time, customers can rent Google's tensor processing units outside Google's own data centers.
IBM makes its Spyre chip a native PyTorch target
A rewrite of IBM's compiler moved Spyre onto PyTorch's Inductor backend, cutting the codebase from about 273,000 lines…
Meta commits large model training to Google chips through a new backend
TorchTPU swaps a brittle bridge for a dispatcher hook, letting PyTorch models run on TPUs with one device…
Tenstorrent doubles its value to $6.2B on open-weight inference
Jim Keller's chip company raised $1.5B after showing its Galaxy servers could serve DeepSeek models.
AWS bets one config line is enough to peel PyTorch off CUDA
TorchNeuron moves PyTorch workloads onto Trainium with a single settings change, and Amazon is aiming it squarely at…
Huang steers $2B into Europe and hands UK labs free compute
Nvidia's CEO spent a week in Europe buying stakes in French startups and funding agent safety research.
Nvidia weighs a deal for open-weight lab Reflection AI
Talks could end in a purchase, a bigger stake or an acquihire, days after Reflection shipped its first…
Microsoft bets its own silicon can carry Azure inference
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300 and said its homegrown accelerators will move to multi-gigawatt deployments beginning in 2027.
Volantis lands $88M to break AI’s memory wall with light
Volantis closed an $88M Series A to commercialize a photonic inference system it says sidesteps the memory wall…