A Bristol based chipmaker, Graphcore, is on a fast growth path having secured to date $710 million in funds. The business was founded in 2016 by two hardware technology entrepreneurs, Simon Knowles, 59, and Nigel Toon, Graphcore’s Chief Executive. The company specialises in making chips for power hungry applications such as machine learning. Mr Toon and Mr Knowles previously sold Icera, a semiconductor company, to Nvidia for $435 million in 2011. They are now back as a direct competitor to both Nvidia and Intel.
Graphcore produces a chip called Colossus. Other backers for
Graphcore are Bailie Gifford and Draper Esprit along with BMW, Bosch, Microsoft,
Samsung, Sequoia Capital and Huawei. Interest in Graphcore has taken off since
Google revealed it was building chips for artificial intelligence applications.
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