Feb 7, 2021 09:43 EST Chip designer NVIDIA Corporation's bid to acquire British design house Arm Ltd. has received fresh opposition from AI accelerator and machine learning chip developer Graphcore. Graphcore, which is based in the United Kingdom, plans to develop what it dubs as an 'Intelligent Processing Unit' - a large chip that is responsible for all of the artificial intelligence operations inside a system, with the company's latest GC200 chip expected to house a staggering 59 billion transistors and be built using the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 7nm FinFET m...