INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
VMware today announced that it has acquired Bitfusion, a former participant in our Startup Battlefield competition
Bitfusion was one of the earliest companies to help businesses accelerate their complex computing workloads on GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs
high-performance computing, but, unsurprisingly, that shifted as the interested in AI and ML increased in recent years.VMware will use
the most out of hardware accelerators like GPUs, most enterprises deploy them on bare metal
VMware, however, argues that this leads to poor utilization and poor efficiencies (as it would, of course, given that it is in the business
companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition
Bitfusion had raised $5 million in 2017 and a smaller, strategic investment from Samsung Ventures in 2018.
