Intelligent Processing Unit News Today

The firm behind ChatGPT is just one company considering buying Graphcore, a struggling UK chipmaker focused on Intelligent Processing Units. IPUs could run generative AI much better than GPUs.

Feb 7, 2021 09:43 EST Chip designer NVIDIA Corporations bid to acquire British design house Arm Ltd. has received fresh opposition from AI accelerator and machine learning chip developer Graphcore. Graphcore, which is based in the United Kingdom, plans to develop what it dubs as an Intelligent Processing Unit - a large chip that is responsible for all of the artificial intelligence operations inside a system, with the companys latest GC200 chip expected to house a staggering 59 billion tra...