Nvidia trying to compete with Google's TPU?
LLM-first design, not GPU evolution.
Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, biggest deal
- Nvidia is making its largest purchase ever, acquiring assets from nine-year-old chip startup Groq for about $20 billion.
- The company was founded by creators of Google’s tensor processing unit, or TPU, which competes with Nvidia for artificial intelligence workloads.
- Groq, which was valued at $6.9 billion in a financing round in September, framed the deal as a “non-exclusive licensing agreement,” with its CEO and other senior leaders joining Nvidia.
Groq's initial name for their ASIC was the Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP),
but later rebranded the TSP as the Language Processing Unit (LPU)
it is not an acquisition, just getting most of people & license;
the reason: tech for efficient AI inference.
CNBC reported that Nvidia is acquiring assets from Groq for $20 billion; Nvidia told TechCrunch that this is not an acquisition of the company and did not comment on the scope of the deal.
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