British AI chipmaker developing intelligence processing units (IPUs), owned by SoftBank since 2024.
Founders
Nigel Toon(United Kingdom · ♂)— A serial semiconductor entrepreneur, Toon teamed up with longtime collaborator Simon Knowles after their prior chip ventures to found Graphcore in 2016 and build dedicated AI processors (IPUs).
Simon Knowles(United Kingdom · ♂)— A veteran chip architect who co-founded Icera and Element14 with Toon, Knowles co-founded Graphcore as CTO to design a massively parallel processor purpose-built for machine learning.
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