Graphcore

Graphcore builds the complete AI compute stack, from silicon through to datacenter infrastructure, developing processors and software for machine intelligence. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, and is expanding teams around the world to work on some of the hardest problems in AI computing.

Its flagship product is the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor designed specifically for machine intelligence and built to deliver leading-edge AI performance with high efficiency. Graphcore was also the first company in the world to bring a Wafer-on-Wafer AI processor to market, a pioneering silicon technology that extends its work in semiconductor engineering and AI processor design. Alongside hardware, the company develops AI software tooling and works on AI model optimization, giving it end-to-end coverage across the stack.

Graphcore operates across artificial intelligence computing, semiconductors and datacenter infrastructure. The company describes itself as a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, and states that individuals have the opportunity to make an impact on its products and on the future of AI. Its stated mission is oriented towards healthier, fairer, more informed and more sustainable lives through what it calls democratized intelligence.