Graphcore is a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment. The company builds the complete AI compute stack, from silicon to datacenter infrastructure, with a focus on semiconductor and software engineering for machine intelligence.
Its flagship product is the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor specifically designed for machine intelligence. Graphcore was the first company in the world to bring a Wafer-on-Wafer AI processor to market, a key technical milestone in AI hardware.
The company's technical domains span semiconductor engineering, software engineering, AI model optimization, and silicon engineering. Teams are expanding around the world to address challenges in AI computing, with a stated aim to bring democratized intelligence that everyone can benefit from.
