IPU is a parallel processor to accelerate machine intelligence inside the processor.
Graphcore's "Intelligence processing unit" (IPU) aims to do for AI what the graphics processing unit did for computing.
Graphcore first chip, called the Colossus GC2, was a "16 nm massively parallel, mixed-precision floating point processor",packaged with two chips on a single PCI Express card called the Graphcore C2 IPU, it is stated to perform the same role as a GPU in conjunction with standard machine ...
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