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Graphcore IPU

SoftBank · #11 most active of 18 in Chips & Compute

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IPU accelerators now inside SoftBank.

Current version

Bow IPU

Entry cost

System sales

Changes / 30d

0

Capabilities

  • Wafer-on-wafer
  • Poplar SDK
  • Sparse compute

Pricing

System sales

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

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Models under the hood

  • n/a

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • TSMC
  • Poplar

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

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No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

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