Move over CPUs and GPUs, the Intelligence Processing Unit is the super-smart chip of the future The race is on to make AI chips. This Bristol-based startup says its chip can handle advanced AI algorithms up to ten times faster than current processors https://www.wired.co.uk/article/graphcore-ai-ipu-chip-nigel-toon Speculation: I suppose in the future one of these AI/IPU chips mated (integrated) with quantum computing chip technology features would make quite the splash in moving things forward, eh?
Brit startup Graphcore tossed a £200m early Christmas pressie for machine learning CPU December 18, 2018 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/...e_cash_for_its_machine_intelligence_cpu_chip/
Microsoft sends a new kind of AI processor into the cloud Innovative chip from Graphcore could push AI applications to greater heights November 17, 2019 https://arstechnica.com/information...ds-a-new-kind-of-ai-processor-into-the-cloud/ Microsoft and Graphcore collaborate to accelerate Artificial Intelligence