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graphcore.ai
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graphcore.ai is the company blog at graphcore.ai, writing about hardware and ai. Since 2016, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Inside an AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Graphcore's company blog, with product pages, benchmark posts and technical explanations of its IPU AI chips. HN readers link it for chip architecture, product details and company news.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Graphcore has built a new type of processor for machine intelligence to accelerate machine learning and AI applications for a world of intelligent machines
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-04-21
- Inside an AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-02-15
- The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD2562 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-21
- Graphcore Sets New AI Performance Standards with Mk2 IPU Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-09
- Introducing 2nd Generation IPU Systems for AI at Scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-15
- Inside an AI 'brain' - what does machine learning look like?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-11
- The Good Computer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-03
- SoftBank Buys Graphcore2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-12
What Hacker News says?
Companies like https://myrtle.ai/ and https://www.graphcore.ai/ are popping up.
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on “AMD is having its day”Submitted Why is so much memory needed for deep neural networks? as a story · 148 points
HN discussionHave you heard of the billion dollar unicorn from England, United Kingdom called Graphcore? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvU0uwIafQ https://www.graphcore.ai/products/mk2/ipu-machine-ipu-pod
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on “AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings”Submitted Inside an AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like? as a story · 124 points
HN discussionI agree. I have high hope for Graphcore. They stated "We will be participating in MLPerf in 2021, starting with the first training submission in the spring". https://www.graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore-sets-new-ai-perform... (I would ignore all benchmarks in that post except the sentence quoted above however.)
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on “Cerebras’ new monster AI chip adds 1.4T transistors”Submitted The Next Big Thing: Introducing IPU-POD128 and IPU-POD256 as a story · 47 points
HN discussionPerhaps Gephi? It was used for those Graphcore neural network visualizations (millions of edges and nodes) and they look stunning. [1] https://gephi.org/features/ [2] https://www.graphcore.ai/posts/what-does-machine-learning-lo...
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on “Datashader: turns even the largest data into images, accurately”Submitted New Graphcore IPU Benchmarks as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFor those that are interested, I was able to attend a talk by the guy that started Graphcore. His experienced approach to customized chip design for ML/AI is a really great thing to tap into. Some of the themes were: maximize power usage as its a limiting compute factor, remove off-chip memory, and scale horizontally at the individual processor level rather than "sharing resources across cores". https://www.graphcor…
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on “5nm vs. 3nm”Submitted Inside an AI 'brain' - what does machine learning look like? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThat hardware advance may be closer than expected: https://www.graphcore.ai
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on “Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks”Submitted First reveal of Dell-Graphcore IPU platform as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOne of the smartest projects I've ever seen was a tool that took the human-readable tables of the HEVC and AV1 specs, used them as input to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta parser-generator, and then output both HEVC parsers in a variety of languages and also auto-fuzzers for test coverage. Ended up at https://www.graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore-open-sources-argon-... Personally I've also written a parser-generator…
Comment linking /posts/graphcore-open-sources-argon-streams-av1-video-decoder-verification-tool
on “Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)”Submitted Inside an AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI went to a talk from the CTO of Graphcore ( https://www.graphcore.ai/ ) on Monday. They are designing chips targeted at machine learning. As I understood it, their architecture comprises - lots of "tiles" - small processing cores with collocated memory (essentially DSPs) - very high bandwidth (90TB/s!) switching fabric to move data between tiles - "Bulk Synchronous Parallel" operation, meaning that the tiles do the…
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on “The Looming Battle Over AI Chips”Submitted The Good Computer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere is some explanation: https://www.graphcore.ai/blog/graph-computing-for-machine-in...
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on “Inside an AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like?”Submitted Performance at Scale: Graphcore’s Latest MLPerf Training Results as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLots of cool stuff in the hardware AI space https://sambanova.ai/ - Enterprise AI and dataflow-as-a-service for established moodels https://www.cerebras.net/ - AI accelerator, trying to compete with NVidia https://www.graphcore.ai/ - Another AI accelerator company - UK based https://femtosense.ai/ - Sparse NNs on very low power chips - cool hardware and software challenges https://sima.ai/ - ML accelerators for embe…
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on “Ask HN: Chip startups?”Submitted Graphcore Sets New AI Performance Standards with Mk2 IPU Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThank you for a blog, very much enjoyed reading it! By any chance do you know how Graphcore generates beautiful graph plots ? (seems like this are graph plots) link: https://www.graphcore.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/Graphcore%20open%20sour...
on “Learning Graph Structure with a Finite-State Automaton Layer”Submitted Introducing 2nd Generation IPU Systems for AI at Scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIm sceptical that a good single CPU search can compete with massive parallel HW, like this one: https://www.graphcore.ai/posts/introducing-second-generation...
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on “The chemfp project: problems selling free software”Submitted Visualization of AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can download their SDK without a login from their website here: https://www.graphcore.ai/downloads
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on “DigitalOcean acquires Paperspace (YC W15) for $111M in cash”Submitted SoftBank Buys Graphcore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat does IPU stand for in this context? The only use I know of is Image Processing Unit — silicon that is custom developed for cameras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_processor This is clearly not that. Edit: Intelligence Processing Unit. https://www.graphcore.ai/products/ I assume that the Bionic neural engine in Apple's A11 and later is an example of this?
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on “New Graphcore IPU Benchmarks”Submitted Graphcore 10 Exaflop “Good” computer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOfficial Graphcore release: https://www.graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore-joins-softbank-grou...
Comment linking /posts/graphcore-joins-softbank-group-to-build-next-generation-of-ai-compute
on “Pioneering British AI chip designer Graphcore bought by Japanese firm SoftBank”Submitted World’s first 3D Wafer-on-Wafer processor – the Bow IPU as a story · 2 points
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