UK Prime Minister wants £800M to spend on big British iron
While it's not clear who would ultimately assemble the machine, or even who would supply the components, one possibility is British startup Graphcore., named for British mathematician Irving John Good, who worked alongside Alan Turing. And as our sister siterather morbidly pointed out, Good also predicted that artificial intelligence would lead to the downfall of the human race and ultimately our extinction.
Another possibility is that the proposed system will opt for British cores if not silicon — perhaps with a sticker that reads"Designed in Britain, Assembled in the USA or Japan" And that means using an Arm-based processor. The British chip designer has steadily expanded its portfolio to address datacenter, cloud, and HPC applications. And Arm also has a pretty good track record when it comes to supercomputers. Riken's number-two ranked Fugaku system uses Fujitsu's Arm-based A64FX processor. Another potential supplier could be Nvidia.
Of course, all of this is assuming that Sunak can find the cash to pay for such a machine. Bloomberg notes that the British Treasury has yet to sign off on the funding. The publication cited several, unnamed persons who indicated that talks between the Department of Science and Technology and the Treasury were ongoing. Another source said it was unlikely that a resolution would be found in time for next week's annual budget.
Sunak's technological ambitions could also face backlash from the British people who, faced with rising inflation and supply chain shortages at the market, were
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