Graphcore Launches New Processor, Ups The Ante In Battle For AI Hardware Supremacy

Graphcore, the UK-based AI chipmaker has unveiled new hardware and software innovations that push the boundaries of research and development in AI. The company has announced the second generation of its flagship Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) chip, the GC200 or the Colossus MK2. According to Graphcore, GC200 is the most complex processor ever made. The IPU chip is at the core of every IPU-Machine M2000, a plug-and-play Machine Intelligence compute blade that has been designed for easy deployment and supports systems that can grow to massive scale. Karl Freund, Senior Analyst at Moor Insights stated, "These developments put Graphcore'first in line to challenge NVIDIA for datacenter AI'." Developed using TSMC's latest 7nm process technology, each chip contains more than 59.4 billion transistors on a single 823sqmm die.