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    This is the first quarterly shareholder update since the initial public offering ("IPO") of Schroder British Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company", or "SBO") on 1 December 2020, and we are delighted to provide the below commentary from the Company's Portfolio Managers.       At the end of March, the Company received external recognition and was awarded the 'Most Exciting Investment Company IPO' accolade at the ADVFN International Financial Awards. The panel-judged awards celebrate best of breed products and services from across the financia...

Graphcore and Cirrascale announce Graphcloud Graphcore has announced the next step in what it describes as its commitment to help customers accelerate their innovation and harness the power of AI at scale. In co-operation with Cirrascale Cloud Services, Graphcore is making available its Mk2 IPU-POD scale-out cluster, offering a simple way to add compute capacity on-demand, without the need to own and operate a datacentre. When it comes to AI there are a unique set of computing challenges; model size is growing rapidly, and the bar for accuracy is constantly being rais...

Cirrascale Cloud Services® and Graphcore® Announce Availability of Graphcloud for Machine Intelligence Share Article Graphcloud enables customers to test and deploy their AI application on IPU systems without initial hardware investment and can easily integrate with existing hyperscale cloud providers for an optimal multi-cloud environment. GRAPHCLOUD Cirrascale is very proud of its strategic collaboration with Graphcore, which has further driven the era of cloud-based solutions for machine learning to reach new large-scale commercial deployments with some of the most exciting Fortune 500 c...

    Given the news towards the end of Q4 2020 of a number of successful COVID-19 vaccine discoveries, followed by expectations of an immediate rollout of a vaccination programme, and probable clarity around Brexit negotiations, we got to work quickly in early December to invest.  Our belief that the small and mid-cap segment of the UK public equity market offers investment potential was corroborated within the first two weeks of SBO's launch when one of our holdings was bid for - a first for the portfolio.  Calisen, a provider of energy meters and metering systems,  rec...

29 December 2020 | 08:56am StockMarketWire.com - Schroder British Opportunities Trust said it had invested into Graphcore, a machine intelligence semiconductor business, as part of a $222 million Series E funding round alongside Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Fidelity International and existing Graphcore investors. Bristol-based Graphcore was founded in 2016 and had developed the Intelligence Processing Unit, a new type of microprocessor specifically designed from the ground up to meet the needs of current and next-generation artificial intelligence applications. 'The investment from this f...