Move over CPUs and GPUs, the Intelligence Processing Unit is the super-smart chip of the future

For most organisations, the process of cognification is the single biggest challenge of the next five years. Everything will get smarter – in theory. The limitations of existing computer chips, however, is slowing down the process. Put simply, today's technology simply isn't up to the job. "What we heard universally was that current hardware was holding developers back," says Nigel Toon, co-founder of Graphcore, the Bristol-based startup behind a new chip to help speed up the process-hogging, resource-intensive deployment of AI.