Graphcore, the UK GPU start-up, has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sequoia. Graphcore’s GPU chip is called an IPU – an intelligence processing unit – which is scheduled to be available to early access customers in Q1. The IPU is one of several AI-focussed processor architectures aimed at taking on Nvidia, ...

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Softbank and Dragoneer Investment Group are to invest $1 billion in Uber at a $70 billion valuation on condition that it has a tender offer of $9 billion accepted at a lower valuation which would bring the Softbank/Dragoneer stake to around 14% of Uber. The tender offer will be made to all Uber shareholders on ...

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This year is a throw-back to those wonderful chip boom years when everypne had money pouring out of their ears, but what about next year? SEMI has published this chart showing the top forecasters’ predictions: The good news is that the most optimistic forcaster, Future Horizons, was the one who was the first to call ...

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NXP has launched the i.MX RT series processors which  bridge the gap between high performance and integration while minimizing costs. Applications include audio subsystems, consumer and healthcare, home and building automation, industrial computing, motor control and power conversion. The i.MX RT1050 is an ARM Cortex-M7 based device with real-time operation and an applications processor-level of functionality ...

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In a new report, From Ostrich to Magpie, the CBI argues that by encouraging more businesses to behave like ‘magpies’ – picking the best tried and tested technologies available – rather than like ‘ostriches’, who are more stuck in their ways, then the UK could reduce inequality between firms’ productivity and people’s pay. This could ...

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TSMC  had October revenues of  NT$94.52 billion (US$3.1 billion)  an increase of 6.7% from September 2017 and an increase of 3.8% from October 2016. Revenues for January through October 2017 totaled NT$794.40 billion (US$26 billion)  an increase of 2.3% compared to the same period in 2016.

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US President Donald Trump’s visit to China has produced a significant benefit for the tech industry. Soon after Trump’s departure, China Vice Premier Wang Yang, who ranks No.4 in the Communist Party, published an article under his own by-line in the Peoples’ Daily newspaper, saying thst foreign companies would no longer be forced to turn ...

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Here, thanks to Bits and Chips, is a photo of the Intel/AMD multichip module containg an Intel CPU, AMD GPU and HBM2 memory stack. On the left is the Intel CPU, the larger chip to the right of the CPU is the AMD GPU, and the smaller chip to the right of the GPU is the ...

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ST has launched a fast-charge chip complying with the Qi specification of the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). By raising the maximum charging power from 5W to 15W, this new profile enables devices to be charged up to three times more quickly. One of the market’s first wireless-charging controllers to support Qi Extended Power, ST’s STWBC-EP ...

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