IPU (Intelligence Processing Unit)
Massively parallel processor purpose-built for machine intelligence, paired with the Poplar SDK; the current Colossus MK2 GC200 IPU is packaged into the IPU-M2000 system delivering 1 petaFLOP of AI compute.
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No public price anywhere on graphcore.ai: https://www.graphcore.ai/pricing returns 404, sitemap.xml contains no pricing or /products URLs, and neither /products/ipu nor the Bow Pod and C600 system pages carry a figure. The only commercial route is /contact-sales, which invites enquiries about 'our IPU products'; systems are sold through channel partners and systems integrators under negotiated terms.
What it does
- Accelerator silicon
- GPU programming
- Model training
- Model inference
How it compares
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NVIDIA Blackwell
Graphcore produces AI chips called intelligence processor units (IPUs) that aim to take on Nvidia.
News reporting · 19 Sep 2026
Sources
- Pricing
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Re-confirmed 2026-09-13: https://www.graphcore.ai/pricing returns a genuine 404 ('Sorry, we can't find the page you're looking for!'). sitemap.xml carries no pricing or /products URL; neither /products/ipu nor the Bow Pod/C600 system pages carry a figure. The only commercial route is /contact-sales.
- Description
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Official documentation · 13 Sep 2026
The stored specification figures (59.4Bn transistors, 1472 cores, 900MB In-Processor-Memory, 250 teraFLOPS FP16, IPU-M2000 at 1 petaFLOP) were confirmed on 2026-09-06; the page itself was re-confirmed live 2026-09-13.
- What it does
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Official documentation · 13 Sep 2026
Inferred from the product's own specification page (accelerator silicon for AI training and inference, programmed via the Poplar SDK) rather than a single named capability list.
- Sold within
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Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026
https://www.graphcore.ai/products/bow-pod16 - 'from our global network of channel partners and systems integrators'; /products catalogue heading 'INTRODUCING BOW POD SYSTEMS'.
- URL
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Official documentation · 13 Sep 2026
Re-fetched in a real browser 2026-09-13: page live, title 'IPU Processors', still reachable though orphaned from the site's own nav and sitemap.
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