After losing 2 chipmakers abroad, Britain wants £37B.
It lost Graphcore to SoftBank and Alphawave to Qualcomm, and decided guaranteed demand might keep the next one from selling. thenextweb.com/news/uk-buy-a…
🎬 Recap time! Over the past few days we’ve been dropping pics & notes from our UK Startup Safari. #ICYMI, here’s a 1-minute wrap video across our packed four-day itinerary!
Here’s some of what our delegates got:
🔹Policymakers: Punting with AI Minister Kanishk Narayan, UK Parliament, Lord Karan Billimoria & the Indian High Commission
🔹Innovators: NVIDIA, Google, Brahma AI, Graphcore, Alpha Machines, Beamery and more
🔹Ecosystem Enablers: Family office dinners, VC roundtables, financial institutions & a special reception at the London Stock Exchange
🔹 Indian Innovation: SPF curated session at the Cambridge India Business Dialogue
🔹 Partnerships: Signed collaborations with UK India Business Council & Cambridge Judge Business School
Four days, many dimensions, an unforgettable safari!
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facts, Europe has Mistral, Aleph Alpha, Hugging Face/BLOOM, Stability AI and DeepMind, plus hardware champs like Graphcore. Small but fierce, focused on open models, privacy and actually shaping policy.
Add Graphcore & Alphaware to the equation. If all 4 had been merged to create a British champion in semiconductor technology, the UK would have a quasi IBM/NVIDIA style company in its borders.
Graphcore. Alphawave. ARM.
We keep building world-class tech then watching it leave.
Maybe buying our own chips is finally the right instinct.
#BritishTech
NEWS: Britain is planning a £37B initiative to hold onto domestic chipmakers after losing Graphcore to SoftBank and Alphawave to Qualcomm $QCOM.
The plan relies on guaranteed demand to make future sales less likely.
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