Graphcore is a semiconductor company that develops Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs), purpose-built hardware and software systems designed to accelerate machine learning models for innovators in AI across various industries.
Graphcore creates specialized processors called IPUs (Intelligence Processing Units), a distinct hardware architecture compared to traditional CPUs and GPUs. The company serves AI researchers, data scientists, and enterprises building large-scale AI applications who require extreme performance and efficiency. Its unique value proposition lies in the IPU's novel architecture, featuring massive parallelism and substantial in-processor memory, which offers significant performance advantages for specific types of AI models. The accompanying Poplar software stack provides the necessary tools to program and optimize applications for this unique hardware. This combination enables developers to push the boundaries of AI research and deployment on a platform built specifically for that purpose.
AI researchers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, and large enterprises working on cutting-edge AI model development, high-performance computing (HPC), and large-scale model training.
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2016
Bristol, United Kingdom
Cloud Access (Free Tier)
Provided via partners like Paperspace, offering free, time-limited access to IPUs within a notebook environment for experimentation, learning, and small-scale projects.
Free
Cloud Access (On-Demand)
Paid hourly or monthly access to dedicated IPU instances and PODs through cloud partners. Pricing varies by provider, region, and the size of the required resources.
Varies
Direct Purchase (Enterprise)
Purchase of Bow Pod systems and other hardware directly from Graphcore. This option is intended for large-scale enterprise, government, or research deployments with specific a TCO model.
Custom Quote
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