Nvidia Corp., the computer-graphics giant that made a successful bet on chips purpose-built for artificial intelligence, is facing new threats to its market dominance as rivals enter a multibillion-dollar race to power everything from customer-service chatbots to robotic lawn mowers. Qualcomm Inc., long the leading designer of silicon for smartphones, unveiled a new AI chip last month for use in cloud computing that it plans to sell next year. Graphcore, a U.K. chip-making startup that recently secured $200 million in new...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 19, 2019 15:56 UTC