Softbank said on Wednesday that she had agreed to pay $ 6.5 billion to start the Silicon Valley SIM ComputingDouble a bet that the technology that has emerged in smartphones will come to control World data centers.
The deal also reflects the belief of the Japanese bloc that amp chips can start playing an important role in artificial intelligence, where Nafidia Refuse the most rewards so far.
Ampre was established eight years ago to sell database chips based on technology from ARM Holdings, a British company that licenses chips designs that operate almost all mobile phones. Softbank, which bought ARM in 2016, is the presence of chips based on the ARM technology used on a wider scale and for different tasks.
“The future of artificial cancellation requires a computing force of penetration,” said Massayoshi, son of SoftBank and CEO, in Maadda. “Amir’s experience in the semiconductor and high -performance computing will help accelerate this vision, and deepen our commitment to creating artificial intelligence in the United States.”
Softbank said she will work as a fully -owned subsidiary under its name.
The sale comes amid a wave of variable deals and alliances led by angry demand on chips used to run artificial intelligence applications such as Openai’s Chatgpt. Softbank, in particular, has announced a series of transactions in an attempt to play a greater role in this field.
In her most amazing transition, Mr. Son joined President Trump in January to announce An initiative called StargateBesides Sam German, President of Openai, Larry Ellison, President and founder of Oracle Oracle, the largest investor and agent in ampere.
Mr. SON and MR. said Altman and Mr. Ellison The Stargate will invest up to $ 500 billion to build a group of American databases to operate Openai operations, starting from a site in Texas. NVIDIA was listed as a major technology partner for the project; It provides chips called graphics processing units, or graphics processing units, which represent the largest part of the artificial intelligence accounts.
Another type of chips also plays central roles in artificial intelligence, as these are the exact processes designed by Intel, advanced fine devices and arm that deals with computing accounts for general purposes. These chips, which operate along with “host” processors, manage artificial intelligence functions such as building special programs called models. One accurate processor is usually used for every four NVIDIA graphics processing units that are sold.
These precise processors are also used sometimes to deal with the Amnesty International mission called “reasoning”, which includes the provision of information in the chatbots. To date, the chips of Intel and AMD are almost all the processors of the artificial intelligence host and the exact processors used to infer.
But some influential companies want to change that. NVIDIA has started pushing the arm processes greatly as an option for the accurate host processors instead of Intel or AMD chips.
A lot of money at stake. IDC, a market research company, predicts that the micro processor market sold to Amnesty International will grow to $ 33 billion by 2030 from $ 12.5 billion in 2025.
AMD and Intel noted that the shift to ARM could require arduous changes to software. They added that NVIDIA did not support arm technology exclusively and still supports its chips as a choice along with the latest graphics processing units.
“NVIDIA is still an important partner for us,” said Ronak Cengal, chief architect of the Data Data Center Data Data Center line.
Ampere has marketed its own accurate the jobs at the data center for general purposes. But it recently announced plans for a chip called Aurora, which features up to 512 small account engines, a design that the company says is especially suitable for artificial intelligence inference applications.
The company, led by Rene James, former CEO of Intel, has achieved some successes. But the biggest speakers in this sector-giant companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft-recently focused on developing their micro processors based on ARM technology, rather than relying on startup.
Oracle is an exception. I have provided online services supported by Amobir chips, and it has revealed the company’s stock and debt investments. As of May, Oracle said she had a 29 percent stake in ampere; The value of its investments, after calculating the losses, was set at $ 1.5 billion.
As part of the purchase, Oracle and Carlyle Group, a large private stock company, which is also a major amp investor, agreed to sell its shares in ampere.
Bloomberg I mentioned Last month, Softbank was near a deal to buy ampere.
