Nvidia has licensed mental property from inferencing chip designer Groq, and employed away a few of its senior executives, however stopped in need of an outright acquisition.
“We’ve taken a non-exclusive license to Groq’s IP and have employed engineering expertise from Groq’s workforce to hitch us in our mission to offer world-leading accelerated computing know-how,” an Nvidia spokesman mentioned Tuesday, by way of electronic mail. However, he mentioned, “We haven’t acquired Groq.”
Groq designs and sells chips optimized for AI inferencing. These chips, which Groq calls language processing items (LPUs), are lower-powered, lower-priced gadgets than the GPUs Nvidia designs and sells, which nowadays are primarily used for coaching AI fashions. Because the AI market matures, and utilization shifts from the creation of AI instruments to their use, demand for gadgets optimized for inferencing is more likely to develop.
