SoftBank Group will be the first to build a supercomputer with chips using Nvidia's new Blackwell design, a demonstration of the Japanese company's ambitions to catch up on AI.
With the current boom of generative AI, British AI chip unicorn Graphcore should've enjoyed the dividends from AI. Instead, it found itself struggling.
SoftBank offered to acquire Graphcore, which designs AI chips for data centers, for US$500 million. The deal is subject to review by the UK, while SoftBank's massive stake in Arm...
SoftBank Group Corp. raised about US$ 1.86 billion via dollar and euro bond sales in one of the biggest foreign-currency deals by a Japanese company this year, as the tech firm moves...
SoftBank Group Corp.'s Vision Fund 2 is investing in US artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI at a $3 billion valuation, Masayoshi Son's latest bet on a sector he deems crucial...
SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son declared he's ready to swing for the fences when he makes his next big tech bet, suggesting the Japanese conglomerate is on the cusp of...
SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to acquire Graphcore Ltd., a struggling British semiconductor startup once valued at $2.8 billion, according to people familiar with the deals.
On February 20, Hon Hai Group (Foxconn) celebrated its 50th anniversary with a grand banquet, hosting prominent guests from major clients like Apple, suppliers, partners, government...
British AI chip startup Graphcore is rumored to be for sale, with the asking price estimated at US$500 million. Arm, SoftBank, and OpenAI are said to be among potential buyers.
After a meeting between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, it was stated that Japan hopes Nvidia will supply as many GPUs as possible to Japanese companies...
For the SoftBank-backed Arm that just completed a blockbuster IPO in the US in mid-September, China is a critical market contributing a quarter of its annual revenues for fiscal 2023,...
SoftBank Group Corp. has lined up some of Arm Ltd.'s biggest customers as strategic investors for the chip company's initial public offering, including Apple Inc., Nvidia Corp., Intel...
