Ampere Computing: Qualcomm, which dominates the market for mobile phone chips, has been working to break into the market for AI chips in data centers since 2019 with a power-efficient offering of its own. Ampere and Qualcomm said on Thursday they have integrated their chips into a single data center server.
At its Ignite developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft introduced a new chip, called Maia, to speed up AI computing tasks and provide a foundation for its $30-a-month "Copilot" service for business software users, as well as for developers who want to make custom AI services.
Tenstorrent, which before this funding had already raised $234.5 million was valued at $1 billion, is one of several upstarts looking to challenge Nvidia, the market leader in supplying chips to develop artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT.