Nvidia Rival Graphcore Makes Big North American Partner Push: Exclusive
The AI chip startup is taking aim at Nvidia’s data center GPU business with its IPUs and purpose-built AI systems, so it’s recruiting solution provider powerhouse Trace3 and other channel partners to ramp up sales in North America. ‘We’re growing both the company and the partner network at a really rapid pace, and that’s due to the fact that the market is absolutely hungry for options that are different than GPUs,’ says Graphcore’s channel chief. By Dylan Martin May 05, 2021, 09:00 AM EDT
AI chip startup Graphcore is making a big North American channel push this year with new and existing partners to ramp up competition against Nvidia’s data center GPU business.
Graphcore adds to N.American channel partners
Graphcore has added new channel partners in North America, extending the company’s sales presenceacross the continent and deepening its commitment to customers.
The companies, which serve both the United States and Canada, will offer advanced AI compute systems for datacentres, based around Graphcore’s Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), IPU-M2000 AI blade, and IPU-POD scale-out solution.
Joining Graphcore’s Global Partner Program are:
Applied Data Systems – a leading supplier and integrator of High Performance Computing systems across government national labs, higher educational research facilities, life science and genomics, media and entertainment, and oil and gas.