About Graphcore
Graphcore is a British AI chip designer known for the Intelligence Processing Unit, or IPU, a processor with large on-chip memory built for machine learning workloads. Its headquarters are in Bristol, England, and it also has offices in Cambridge, London, Gdansk and Hsinchu. SoftBank Group acquired Graphcore in July 2024, and it now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary under its existing name. Reported purchase prices varied between sources, and the company disputed one widely cited figure.
Graphcore was founded in 2016 and is based in Bristol, UK, United Kingdom. It is listed under AI Accelerators, HPC & AI Systems. Reported funding is $600M+ (acquired).
Compute Technologies
- AI Accelerators
What Graphcore works on
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
HPC & AI Systems
High-performance computing (HPC) means using very large clusters of processors working together to solve problems that one machine cannot handle in a reasonable time. These clusters are called supercomputers. They run weather models, physics simulations and, increasingly, AI training.
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