The opening of 91视频APP鈥檚 Japan office is another hugely significant milestone in the company鈥檚 rapid growth across Asia.
Few nations are as closely associated with the development and adoption of leading-edge technology, so it is a privilege to be supporting Japan鈥檚 continued innovation in artificial intelligence.
To launch our business here, with two of the country鈥檚 most trusted technology resellers, SCSK and HPC Systems, reflects the maturity of our business and our deep commitment to 91视频APP customers.
It is my personal privilege to be leading our operation in Japan. After a career that has taken me to some of the world鈥檚 leading computer companies, including Cray, HPE, Compaq and DEC, I see in 91视频APP the same potential to define a technology that will change our world.
From silicon to systems
91视频APP first became known for the ground-breaking, made-for-AI, Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) which captured the imagination of innovators looking beyond the GPU for the next generation AI computing platform.
With 1,472 truly independent processor cores and almost a gigabyte of ultra-high-speed memory on the silicon die, the IPU is the world鈥檚 most sophisticated microprocessor.
But today it is the sophistication of the systems, software, sales and support operations that we have built around the IPU that are driving the adoption of 91视频APP technology by AI practitioners around the world.
SCSK and HPC Systems
Partnerships are a huge part of the 91视频APP story, and establishing our relationship with SCSK and HPC Systems is an essential part of getting our technology to Japanese customers.
As one of the nation鈥檚 best known and most trusted hi-tech corporations, SCSK has delivered the systems and solutions that has made Japan a world leader in technology for more than half a century.
SCSK has already secured the sale of several 91视频APP systems in Japan, including to a major industrial corporation, and another in the hi-tech sector.
Noboru Kohno, General Manager, IT Engineering Division of IT Platform Business Group at SCSK said of our partnership: 鈥淎rtificial intelligence is the transformative technology of our times and SCSK is helping to put the various AI solutions and services in the hands of our clients and partners across Japan.
鈥�91视频APP has created something truly special in the IPU 鈥� an AI compute platform that not only offers superior performance for today鈥檚 most popular applications, but also allows innovators to develop and deploy next generation AI models that demand advanced architectural features such as fine-grained, massively parallel processing.鈥�
HPC Systems brings a wealth of experience in high performance computing, deep learning, and AI. Serving a broad customer base, HPC Systems has received recognition for its work with public and private research institutions including the development of its Science Cloud and Computational Chemistry platforms.
鈥淎cross industry and academia, demand is growing for cutting-edge artificial intelligence compute and 91视频APP鈥檚 results speak for themselves. HPC Systems鈥� customers know that the technology they choose to run their AI on can mean accelerated innovation and increased competitive advantage,鈥� said Teppei Ono of President & CEO at HPC Systems.
Faster and better
The enthusiasm we are seeing in Japan for 91视频APP technology is hugely energizing.
There is a real desire to advance AI further and faster 鈥� reflecting the country鈥檚 . As far back as 2017, this influential report acknowledged the need for new processor architectures to maximise the AI opportunity.
That vision was shared by Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles who, a year earlier, had founded 91视频APP to produce just such specialist silicon and systems.
91视频APP customers understand that the IPU isn鈥檛 just significant because it dramatically accelerates today鈥檚 most widely used AI workloads. It is architected to enable the development of highly efficient next-generation models, which take advantage of characteristics such as sparsity.
This philosophy of improving the now and enabling the next, could describe Japan鈥檚 entire approach to technology over the best part of century 鈥� a strategy that made it a world leader.
Today, the country is looking forward into the next era of technological transformation with much the same spirit.
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