To me this seems to be a reaction to the announcement of nvidia to build a one-in-all HPC system. Nvidia already owns Mellanox for the Infiniband Network and th

To me this seems to be a reaction to the announcement of nvidia to build a one-in-all HPC system. Nvidia already owns Mellanox for the Infiniband Network and their GPUs are the fastest on the market. Now with an additional CPU in their portfolio they could provide a complete Supercomputer in one piece. Think about a HPC-SOC. Supercomputers are still a matter of national security. https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/04/12/nvidia-enters-the-arms-race-with-homegrown-grace-cpus/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/04/12/nvidia-enters-the-ar... Also nvidia will build a new system in switzerland with 20 Exaflops (albeit fp16) which would be the fastest ML/AI system so far. https://www.marktechpost.com/2021/04/16/nvidias-novel-cpu-grace-will-power-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-capable-supercomputer/ https://www.marktechpost.com/2021/04/16/nvidias-novel-cpu-gr... FTA: With the help of tight coupling between NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs, Alps is expected to train GPT-3, the world’s largest natural language processing model, in mere two days.