AI inferencing startup Positron AI raises $230 million to develop chips 'to rival Nvidia'
Company claims its first-generation Atlas chips can achieve three times the compute per watt of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs
Company claims its first-generation Atlas chips can achieve three times the compute per watt of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs
Intel rationing deliveries of fourth and fifth-generation CPUs, with wait times of up to six months anticipated
Acquisition expected to close in late 2026
Fundraise comes two weeks after company announced $10bn deal with OpenAI
Demand still high from those running HPC workloads
Project will reportedly be led by former Qualcomm exec Eric Demmers
Transaction expected to close in early 2027
Company saw $440m of sales to China during the year, and is in discussions with customers for multi-year Helios deployments
Technology will support AI infrastructure demands, with prototypes expected to be available in 2027
Comes in same week Nvidia CEO downplays $100bn investment pledge in OpenAI
The 20.8 petaflops system is comprised of AMD Turin CPUs
20.13 petaflop system is based on AMD Epyc Turin CPUs
Government is reportedly weighing up conditions under which additional purchases will be greenlit
Company announced number of updates to customers at its annual Qubits user conference
Investors include NVentures, Nvidia’s venture capital arm
CPU had previously only been available as part of Vera Rubin Superchip
Designed using TSMC’s 3nm process technology, company has already deployed chip in its US Central data center region
Fourth IonQ acquisition in less than a year
System named after WWII Medal of Honor recipient
System is first Intel Xeon 6 cluster to use immersion cooling
Funding round saw investment from Microsoft’s Venture Fund and Aramco Ventures
Intel CFO said that although chipmaker expected core counts to increase, “unit volumes were not”
Intel was reportedly mulling a $1.6bn acquisition of the AI solution provider as recently as last month
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