Graphcore unveils the first WoW processor alongside 'ultra-intelligence AI supercomputer' plans

British semiconductor firm Graphcore has unveiled the first Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) processor alongside setting out its roadmap for an "ultra-intelligence AI supercomputer". The chip unveiled today, the Bow IPU, is the world's first processor to be based on TSMC's Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) technology. "TSMC has worked closely with Graphcore as a leading customer for our breakthrough SoIC-WoW solution as their pioneering designs in cutting-edge parallel processing architectures make them an ideal match for our technology," said Paul de Bot, GM of TSMC Europe. Compared to its predecessors, Graphcore claims that its Bow IPU offers up to 40 percent higher performance and 16 percent better power efficiency for real-world AI applications. In terms of power, Graphcore says the flagship Bow Pod delivers more than 89 petaFLOPS of AI compute.