{"id":8691,"date":"2018-09-13T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2018-07-20T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:30:17","slug":"artificial-intelligence-newer-chip-designs-focus-on-turbo-charging-ai-algorithm-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-newer-chip-designs-focus-on-turbo-charging-ai-algorithm-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence: Newer Chip Designs Focus on Turbo-Charging AI Algorithm Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intelligent Processing Units (IPU)<\/a> are computer chips designed with AI algorithms in mind. The chips are able to run AI algorithms ten times faster than the most powerful GPU chips. IPUs were introduced by the UK-based Graphcore.<\/p>\n

Nigel Toon<\/a>, CEO of Graphcore, said that<\/a> “the architecture of the hardware is quite simple and straightforward. You can\u2019t simply come up with the hardware, and then try to figure out how to write the software with it.”<\/p>\n

Standard CPUs are based on a scalar architecture.\u00a0 GPUs are based on a vector architecture.\u00a0 IPUs instead use a graph architecture.\u00a0 This approach allows them to target specific AI algorithms, like neural networks, Bayesian networks, and Markov Fields, for example.\u00a0 IPUs support both the training and inference steps of AI.<\/p>\n

GPUs are currently the rage and used for most AI projects.\u00a0 But the GPU chips were designed to optimize the processing of graphic images and only have recently been applied to AI algorithms.<\/p>\n

Feldman, CEO at Cerebras, said that “I don\u2019t think the GPU is very good for machine learning. It\u2019s just better than Intel\u2019s [central processing unit], but the GPU represents 25 years of optimization for a different problem.”<\/p>\n

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Intelligent Processing Units (IPU) are computer chips designed with AI algorithms in mind. The chips are able to run AI algorithms ten times faster than the most powerful GPU chips. IPUs were introduced by the UK-based Graphcore. Nigel Toon, CEO…<\/span><\/p>\n

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