Senior Backend Engineers + Getting Chippy With It
Software engineers NEEDED at different locations around the UK, remote roles included
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Spotted: The chip wars are heating up, Qualcomm is surging, Anthropic is desperately hunting for compute, Quantinuum is betting quantum is the next gold rush.
Lenovo is printing money on AI and the biggest names in Silicon Valley just wrote a $125 million cheque to make sure they own the next generation of chips before anyone else does.
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Before we get into it, let’s talk about our sponsor of the month Aluma.
A Cambridge-based B2B AI company, Aluma‘s cloud platform automatically classifies and extracts information from unstructured documents, serving clients across the Americas and Europe while doubling revenue year on year.
They are currently on the hunt for THREE remote Senior Backend Engineers. If that sounds like you, do not sleep on this one.
Before you apply, Aluma will ask you a few quick questions:
Do you have at least two years of Go experience in a professional environment?
Are you based in the UK with the right to work here?
Are you able to travel to Cambridge, Reading or the South/East of England for two consecutive days every four to six weeks?
Can you share a short summary (50 to 100 words) of an interesting technical problem you have solved recently?
Honeywell’s Quantinuum Eyes $12.7 Billion Valuation in US IPO
Still loss-making, Quantinuum is betting quantum computing is the next AI gold rush, raising $1.05 billion from investors treating it as a strategic priority alongside AI and defence.
Lenovo Surges 20% After Record Earnings as AI Revenue Nearly Doubles
AI revenue surged 84% in Q4, while overall group revenue hit $21.6 billion, up 27% year on year, the highest growth rate in five years, with net income growing nearly sixfold to $521 million.
Anthropic and Microsoft Eye AI Chip Deal Following $5 Billion Investment
Facing a severe compute shortage as Claude demand explodes, Anthropic considers Microsoft’s Maia AI chip, fourth silicon partner alongside Nvidia, Amazon and Google in a scramble to secure enough computing power to keep up.
Qualcomm Surges 75% as Investors Wake Up to the Physical AI Boom
Qualcomm is cementing itself as the backbone of physical AI, powering smartglasses, cars and robots through deals with Stellantis, OpenAI and Meta, driving a 75% stock surge in a month.
Meta&Broadcom Launch $125 Million Semiconductor Research Hub at UCLA
Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries and Synopsys are pooling $125 million at UCLA to accelerate chip research and close the gap between academic innovation and a market moving faster than anyone can predict.
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