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. In its earliest iteration, over four years ago, the companyās focus was less on AI and machine learning and more on other areas of high-performance computing, but, unsurprisingly, that shifted as the interested in AI and ML increased in recent years.
VMware will use Bitfusionās technology, which is vendor- and hardware-agnostic, to bring similar capabilities to its customers. Specifically, it plans to integrate Bitfusion into its vSphere platform. āOnce closed, the acquisition of Bitfusion will bolster VMwareās strategy of supporting AI- and ML-based workloads by virtualizing hardware accelerators,ā writes Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager of VMwareās Cloud Platform Business Unit. āMulti-vendor hardware accelerators and the ecosystem around them are key components for delivering modern applications. These accelerators can be used regardless of location in the environment ā on-premises and/or in the cloud.ā
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