Graphcore
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Common mistakes with Graphcore Bow Pod IPU setup and PopTorch training
Graphcore Bow Pod IPU setups suffer from baseline drift and inaccessible bit-error-rate data that obscure root causes. Operators often skip initial profiling,…
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The rise and fall of Graphcore
Graphcore developed the $2.8B IPU architecture to accelerate AI training by up to 100 times. After facing a liquidity crisis and a…
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Graphcore IPU vs Intel Gaudi 3 and Nvidia performance
Graphcore CEO Nigel Toon claims the Colossus GC200 IPU outperforms GPUs on complex sparse models, while Intel’s Gaudi 2 showed a 103…
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The history of Graphcore and its IPU architecture
Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles founded Graphcore in 2016 to challenge NVIDIA with Intelligence Processing Units. Despite the Colossus MK2 GC200 chip…
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Graphcore Bow IPU: The 350W push against NVIDIA dominance
Graphcore’s Bow IPU utilizes wafer-on-wafer technology to deliver 350 trillion floating point per second of AI arithmetic. The BOW POD-16 offers a…
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Graphcore acquisition by SoftBank and AI chip inference performance
SoftBank acquired Graphcore amid reports of a $500 million deal following a 46 percent revenue drop. While SambaNova’s SN40L delivers up to…