The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: An Update

Celebrating its two-year anniversary, the Center announces innovative AI acceleration technologies along with nearly tripling its cadre of memberships. The IBM Research AI Hardware Center is the nexus of a group of academic and industry leaders contributing to the next wave of AI technologies. The Center's mission is to develop technologies that will deliver 2.5 times annual improvement in AI hardware compute efficiency, attaining a 1000-fold improvement, one of the key components for enabling what IBM terms "Fluid Intelligence". Recently celebrating the Center's second anniversary, IBM is tracking to that pace or better, and has nearly tripled the Center's membership roster of companies and institutions from six to sixteen. See a more detailed analysis here.