Bristol-headquartered Graphcore, a startup developing chips and systems to accelerate AI workloads, appears to be taking on category-leader Nvidia with significant improvements in performance and ...

There is a lot riding on the use of artificial intelligence technology to help us take giant leaps ahead in solving complex challenges -- whether it's medical breakthroughs, building better ...

MLPerf, the benchmark suite of tests for how long it takes to train a computer to perform machine learning tasks, has a new contender with the release Wednesday of results showing Graphcore, the ...

As large, powerful AI models like OpenAI's text-generating GPT-3 come into wider use, the hardware traditionally used to train these models -- mostly GPUs -- will have to be replaced with more ...

"The misconception here is that this is as much, if not more, a software problem to solve than it is a hardware problem," said Nigel Toon, chief executive officer of AI computer startup Graphcore.

The U.K. has a strong history when it comes to processors, but the global chip market has seen some ups and downs of late. Today comes some big news that underscores how investors are doubling down on ...

The big picture: AI algorithms are spreading rapidly, and the demand for GPUs and other specialized chips designed to accelerate AI workloads is continuously increasing. Graphcore could offer an ...