SoftBank’s Izanagi AI processor could arrive in 2025, says report
By Peter Clarke, eeNews Europe (December 31, 2024)
A prototype Izanagi AI processor from SoftBank Group Corp. could be available as early as the summer of 2025, according to a Bloomberg report.
The report – which references sources involved with SoftBank and Project Izanagi – states that Masayoshi Son, the company’s founder and CEO, has become obsessed with building a company to take on semiconductor market leader Nvidia Corp. He wants to do that by selling a processor to address Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). AGI is seen as a broad description of a step up from the generative AI that is currently driving AI chip sales into datacenters.
Izanagi was tipped in February 2024 as SoftBank was reportedly raising funds for the project. The name is a reference to the Japanese Shinto god of creation and life.
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